The Mid-Year Economic Report by the National Small Business Association, an advocacy group for small business in which members skew toward established firms, found that small business owners are much less optimistic about both the economy and the fate of their own firms than when the last survey was released six months ago.
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Bob Ash, director of Wachovia 's small-business group, says loan volume has been steady in the past few weeks compared to the first quarter of 2007.
Yahoo also has access to millions of consumers via email and their popular homepage, along with relationships and information on a vast pool of local merchants through its Yahoo small-business group.
The National Federation of Independent Businesses--the largest U.S. small business lobbying group, with 350, 000 members--announced its support for universal health care today, a seemingly surprising move from an openly right-leaning interest group.
The suit, brought by 26 states and joined by the National Federation of Independent Business, a small-business lobby group, is set to be heard by the Supreme Court next year.
After 12 years with the National Federation of Independent Businesses, the nation's largest small-business advocacy group, with 600, 000 members, federal-policy guru Donald Danner knows what makes entrepreneurs tick.
The National Federation of Independent Business, a lobby group, says small-business confidence is at its lowest ebb in three decades.
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The ads were paid for by StandWithMainStreet.com, a small-business-sounding group, but its members include Best Buy ( BBY), Home Depot ( HD) and Sears ( SHLD).
At a party recently, a woman announced to a small group her new business plan.
What she found would look quite familiar to anybody involved in the securities class-action business: A small group of specialized players who engage in repeated rounds of the same game.
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To cross the chasm from the small group of experts to the much larger group of business-focused users, one must find specific business problems to solve and create purpose-built solutions.
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Yesterday, I had the opportunity to meet with a small group of minority women business leaders at the White House.
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It was a welcomed message for some, including David Ickert, chair of the National Small Business Association, a nonpartisan trade group.
Another group makes small-business loans to affected families.
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Before joining Novell I practiced and refined the art and science of business-to-business marketing at small (Art Technology Group), large (IBM) and venture oriented (Internet Capital Group) firms.
Later today, Transportation Secretary LaHood will be in Charlotte, North Carolina, to meet with a group of CEOs and small business owners to talk about ways to promote growth and job creation in North Carolina and across the country.
Stop targeting small business and focus on a niche within the group that can deliver revenue.
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The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, a Washington lobby group, agrees that the White House's plan does nothing to lower individual tax rates, a move it says would help small-business owners and the self-employed.
An April survey of 1, 500 business owners by the National Small Business Association, a Washington-based trade group, found that roughly 40% of small firms use outside payroll services for tasks ranging from issuing employee paychecks to paying state and federal employee taxes.
Among 400 employers with 50 workers or more, 71% said they plan to continue offering health insurance while just 3% said they plan to pay the penalty, according to a February survey by the National Small Business Association, a nonpartisan entrepreneur-advocacy group in Washington, D.
The monthly survey, conducted jointly by the Journal and San Diego-based executive-mentoring group Vistage, polled 848 small-business owners from a variety of industries.
So what I said to them is the same thing that I say to the entire group: We genuinely believe that small business is the backbone of America.
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Each group is finding a viable business which is small, rooted in the local economy, and building on what they know already.
In June, the Hartford Group released a white paper identifying eight ways small business owners can reduce the likelihood of a data breach, including secure remote access through the deployment of a virtual private network (VPN) and regular review of data security practices.
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Geely said earlier this year it planned to enter the electric vehicle business with Kandi Technologies Group, a Chinese maker of small vehicles including go-karts.
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While their individual motivations are unique, as a group these entrepreneurs represent a very important segment of the small business market, and one that we should pay more attention to.
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The workshop is a small business supported by the U.S.-based nonprofit Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group.
Identify a small group of people in your organization who are particularly skeptical regarding the business value of CSR.
Gene Marks is owner of Marks Group, a technology consulting firm, and author of The Streetwise Small Business Book of Lists.
Learning how to work within a group of equals is particularly useful when the time comes for your small business to form alliances and partnership.
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