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Kerry, Snowe Work to Expand Health Care Access for Small Businesses (Popularity:  )
Senators John Kerry (D- Mass.) and Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, introduced two bills this week designed to improve access to quality health care for small businesses, their employees and their families. The bills establish an intergovernmental task force to enroll eligible children of small business employees in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) and create a grant ...
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Novell Unveils Workgroup Suite for Small Businesses (Popularity: )
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Novell today introduced the first workgroup suite for small businesses that provides organizations with a flexible and cost-effective solution based on proven, open standards-based software. The Novell(R) Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition includes Linux* server and desktop components with e-mail, collaboration and the most advanced open source office products available. As a result, customers get a markedly improved return on their IT investments and aren't locked into expensive, proprietary-only ...
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Linksys Introduces Enhanced Entry-Level Gigabit Smart Switches for Small Businesses (Popularity: )
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From its 2007 Connected Office Day events around the globe, Linksys(R), a Division of Cisco Systems, Inc., and the recognized leading global manufacturer of voice, wireless, and networking hardware for home, Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) and the small business user, today announced two new Gigabit Smart Switches -- the 8-Port 10/100/1000 Gigabit Smart Switch with PD and AC Power (SLM2008) and the 5-Port 10/100/1000 Gigabit Smart Switch with PD and ...
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Seattle PRstore to Offer Comprehensive Marketing Services for Small Business, Non-Profits (Popularity: )
http://www.prstore.com
When PRstore opens at 829 NE Northgate Way, small business owners in the Seattle area can -- for the first time -- shop a trendy retail showroom for an array of high quality, affordable marketing products customized just for them. A growing retail concept, PRstore was created to provide marketing tools, promotional products and expert advice to small businesses and individuals who do not traditionally use full-service ad agencies and ...
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New Research Tells Family Businesses: Proceed With Caution (Popularity: )
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New nationwide research on family businesses shows that the overwhelming optimism of family business owners might be premature. A lack of strategic vision, succession planning and governance policies could spell the end of many family-owned enterprises in the near future. "Family businesses need to heed the warning signs," says Rich Simmonds, managing principal at Seattle-based wealth management firm Laird Norton Tyee (LNTyee.) "We spoke to top family business leaders in ...
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Revered Business Bestseller Returns to Print (Popularity: )
For a generation of "corporate guerillas" in the 1970's, Robert Townsend was gadfly-in-chief. The phenomenally successful CEO, who turned around troubled Avis Rent-a-Car, wrote a runaway bestseller titled UP THE ORGANIZATION: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits that railed against fat-cat complacency, bureaucracy, and bad leadership. Celebrated by Betty Friedan for encouraging females to enter the executive ranks (when there were no female Fortune 500 ...
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Whirlpool Brand Mother of Invention Grant Program Helps Moms Make Business Dreams a Reality (Popularity: )
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Moms are continually on the move, particularly when it comes to business -- approximately half a million women across the country run their own ventures, and over one third of them have children under the age of 18 living at home(1). To celebrate Moms' ingenuity, Whirlpool brand is announcing its third annual Mother of Invention Grant Program, a competition that recognizes the entrepreneurial spirit of moms by awarding them the ...
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North Carolina Health Care Company Owned by Native American Sisters Is National Small Business of the Year (Popularity: )
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A pair of Native American sisters from Lumberton, N.C., who dreamt of turning their health care experience into a thriving homegrown business -- Bobbie Jacobs-Ghaffar and Lesa Jacobs -- were today named National Small Business Persons of the Year during ceremonies at SBA Small Business Week 2007, the agency's two-day conference marking National Small Business Week. "Bobbie Jacobs-Ghaffar and Lesa Jacobs epitomize the hard work, the risk- taking, and the ...
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Adaptive Marketing Shares Business Plan Tips for Small-Business Start-ups (Popularity: )
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Congratulations! You've built a better mousetrap (or exercise machine or bottle opener or catering service or ...). Now what? Well, as Adaptive Marketing LLC reports, it's not enough to have a viable product -- you also need a viable plan. As an industry leader in Internet marketing, Adaptive Marketing offers small business owners and millions of other consumers access to savings on the products and services that can make a ...
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New Book Teaches 'The Other Secret' to Achieving Success is to Actually Increase Failures (Popularity: )
Another book on success makes its way to market this spring, but this one is different. You could call it success with a twist. For while the authors liken their book to runaway bestseller, "The Secret", this book's secret isn't what most people expect. Because this book's secret is that to be successful you must learn to intentionally fail more often. "Go for No! Yes is the Destination, No is ...
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