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Businesses cash in on Small Business Saturday
WLOS-TV
The National Retail Federation estimates 140 million Americans will shop the Thanksgiving weekend, including those who shop local on Saturday for Small Business Saturday. Many shoppers headed to downtown Asheville, North Carolina, visiting a number of stores, including Malaprops Bookstore and Café.
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How to get help building a business
Fortune
Shaun Silva has had a successful career producing videos for major country acts including Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, and Luke Bryan. After more than a decade producing videos, he decided he wanted to open a postproduction company in Nashville. It was a huge challenge for someone who was great at making videos but not an expert in running a business.
How the Internet is giving Small Business Saturday an edge
Fortune
Because of advances in technology, small businesses and entrepreneurs can compete with far larger competitors, says Karen Mills, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School.
Small business success requires 2 kinds of passion
Forbes
Success as a small business owner requires market and operating passion. Market passion – devotion to what your business does – is like a mother’s love for her newborn baby, it’s the easy kind. Unfortunately, in business it can be too easy.
Honoring small business, Obamas go book shopping
The New York Times
President Barack Obama, joined by his daughters, went shopping Saturday at Politics and Prose, an independent bookstore in the capital, in what has become a Thanksgiving weekend tradition for the first family to honor Small Business Saturday — an outing that mixed policy and purchases. The president and his daughters, Sasha and Malia, browsed the shelves and chatted with customers before buying two bags full of books at the store, where they also shopped at this time last year.
Find your first client under these 6 unturned stones
Small Business Trends
Encouraging referrals is the best way to grow your business. However, as a new entrepreneur, to obtain referrals you have to have clients. Getting that first client can be one of the biggest challenges in getting your business off the ground. Fortunately, there are things you can do to entice new clients into hiring you.
Avoiding joint ownership and its disinheritance risk
By David B. Mandell, JD, MBA, and Carole Foos, CPA
Joint ownership is the most popular form of ownership for a married couple's real estate and bank accounts. With joint property, when one joint owner dies, property owned in joint ownership automatically passes to the surviving joint owner(s).
HealthCare.gov's insurance marketplace for small businesses gets off to a slow start
The Washington Post
A year after the Obama administration temporarily shelved an unfinished part of HealthCare.gov intended for small businesses, it has opened with reports of only modest technical flaws — but with doubts that it will soon benefit the millions of workers at little companies with inadequate health insurance or none at all.
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