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Small Businesses Need To Prepare For Emergencies, Disasters

YoungUpstarts

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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Use Your Tax Refund To Grow Your Small Business

YoungUpstarts

Tax season is one of the busiest and most stressful times of the year for small business owners. CNBC reported that half of small businesses in the United States will spend at least $5,000 to come to terms with their tax bills. But now that Tax Day 2015 has passed, many small business owners are looking at tax refunds.

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Harvey Aftermath: How Your Small Business Can Help

Austin Startup

Here’s how your small business can help the victims of natural disasters. There are restaurants and businesses collaborating, making discounts through donations to send over to many charities. SO LET’S RECAP: You’re a small business, but you want to help. Organize community support through creative fundraisers.

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Finding Your Fire And Igniting Change

Duct Tape Marketing

Terri Broussard Williams (07:22): Angie and her husband had been fighting for their lives for, for the land that he owned through his father and say they are sugar cane farmers in Southwest Louisiana. And their story is so powerful that it literal vibrated something in me.

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6 Surveillance Camera Systems For Commercial Use

YoungUpstarts

These crisp and compact cameras make the Bosch IP 200 Series perfect for apartments, offices, and small businesses. The Outdoor Bullet is an optimal camera for safeguarding your place of business or home. Each of these models is capable of recording both H.264 264 and M-JPEG video streams, and come ready-to-use with software.

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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

YoungUpstarts

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. In 2006, Muhammad Yunus, the bank’s founder and “the father of microfinance,” won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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