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Here’s some news sure to make small business retailers a bit more jolly about the economy of the USA this holiday season: Consumer confidence is dramatically on the rise! The November “Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index,” compiled by IHS Global Insight, surged 15.1 points or 36.9 percent compared to October 2011. The point increase was Read more...

Small businesses may be losing revenues, losing profit and their owners even losing sleep or possibly their minds – but they are not losing determination to succeed, according to a new survey released Tuesday. The survey included U.S. small businesses as well as those in other countries. 43 percent reported negative or no growth in Read more...

If you are a store that accepts payment from the EBT/SNAP (Food Stamp) Program, you best be watching your P’s & Q’s. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is targeting smaller retail stores to cut down on food stamp trafficking, the illegal buying and selling of food stamps, which costs taxpayers as much as $330 Read more...

Wall Street is finally getting it’s due and is starting to shed jobs, to the tune of about 200,000, Bloomberg reported today. I don’t like to hear about ANYONE losing a job in this economy, but as a small business owner, I can’t help but feel a LITTLE bit of bitter-sweet satisfaction. Wall Street rebounded Read more...

As a small business owner whose business is a gas station, I watch the oil and gas markets very closely. Next week, families across the United States will be hitting the road for the Thanksgiving holiday break and they will be paying more to do so than they did a year ago. The funny thing Read more...

As many of us have already figured out, most small business employers did not view the small business health insurance tax credit as an incentive to provide health insurance coverage to their employees last year, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants told a congressional panel today. The credit is so complex that small business Read more...

As a rule, Small business owners are feeling more confident about their success over the next two years, but many are still having trouble accessing capital and loans. A new survey by the Hartford Insurance Company found that 70 percent of the small business owners they polled FEEL successful, even as they face continuing challenging Read more...

The Medical and Health Insurance Tax Credit for small business owners is another instrument the government cooked up to “help” businesses through the economic downturn. Like so many other programs designed to “help” us, the plan appears to be backfiring. The number of claims for the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit, which was included Read more...

Being a small business owner, I get irritated with the present government administration’s lip-service concerning the subject of “growing” small businesses in America today. I do what I can to make my business grow and survive, and often wish I had more of a voice the government would listen to. On the other hand, the Read more...

This article should be ringing some alarm bells in the heads of small business owners and the prospects for 2012 small business growth and beyond. This article makes a strong statement about the fact that small business owners need to get their stuff together and do their best – each and every day! Read more Read more...