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Does Your Small Business Need Workers’ Compensation Insurance?

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These include Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri (all businesses except construction), Tennessee (if not construction, coal mining, or trades), West Virginia (if agriculture), In Florida, if you have an agricultural business and have six (6) or more employees and twelve (12) or more seasonal employees , you must carry workers’ compensation insurance.

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Small Businesses Need To Prepare For Emergencies, Disasters

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In Louisiana alone, more than 20,000 businesses were shuttered. In fact, an Experian study showed that Katrina affected more small businesses than any other business segment. If you’re a small business and are now suitably worried, you should be. Looking Into Insurance.

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Finding Your Fire And Igniting Change

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Terri is an executive with 20 years of experience specializing in government relations, social impact strategy, corporate social responsibility, public affairs, and innovative business operations to further the organizational mission. Marketing Podcast with Terri Broussard Williams. Marketing Podcast with Terri Broussard Williams.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Small Business. SMALL BUSINESS. more in Small Business. Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept. Small Business » Subscriber Content Read Preview. Loading… Careers.

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A New Idea for Black Friday

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

The harder news, like the protests at Walmart in Ontario, Louisiana, got a lot less air time. While I have much sympathy for the protestors in Louisiana, I don’t have much hope for their getting better pay. So, maybe the thing to do on Black Friday is to go back to old Main Street and support a small business.

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10 Amazing Microfinance Success Stories

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The benefits of microfinance have been debated since the ’70s when the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh began making tiny loans to impoverished small business owners. She started a business selling gas cylinders with a loan from MFW that helped her buy two cars to make deliveries. Lidia Calzado, U.S.

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From the Vault: America’s Founding Entrepreneurs

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The founders early on identified the core issues and articulated the “problem;” they recognized the “opportunity” represented by the immense resources of the colonies; and they designed a “solution” in a new kind of government, ruled by the people themselves. Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Jefferson.