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Small Business News World Round-up – 2009/12/08

The Small Business Blog

Small Business News World Round-up – 2009/12/08 by Stefan Töpfer on Dec 08, 2009 Here is this week’s news round-up for home business, micro business, sole-traders, freelancers, self-employed and any one who is interested in small business news from around the world. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Customers Have to Pay at Claire's

Make or Break Moments

It doesn’t sound like this is a location edict, but more of a companywide policy. Claire’s isn’t wearing the customer’s shoes – I would suggest they spend a minute viewing their new policy from the customer’s perspective. Sounds like a personal problem.

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Health Grows to 17.6% of U.S. Economy

Small Business Labs

health spending grew just 4% in 2009 , the lowest growth rate in the 50 years the government has tracked this data.  of 2009 U.S. If like us you're worried about health care spending, there's some good news and some bad news.    The good news is U.S.   Health spending was 16.6% GDP by 2020. 

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"North Texas had another earthquake yesterday due to the injection well process in Johnson county."

Denise Aday

Local residents have reported foundation damage but most do not have this particular item in their policies so it will be an out of pocket expense. In May 2009, there were about 17 “minor” earthquakes in Irving. The largest was 3.3M. 6 Earthquakes in 30 days and counting…. Dallas Drilling’s Blog.

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An Overview of the Non-Profit Sector

Small Business Labs

Defining Small Business Innovation 2010 Top 10 Small Business Trends Intuit Future of Small Business Resources The Changing Face of Entrepreneurs The Connected World of Entrepreneurs Disclosure Policy Emergent Research works with corporate, government and non-profit clients.   It likely fell again in 2009

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Takeover Disasters | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

To avoid misunderstandings and conflict from the beginning it is best if you set down a clear and consistent policy favouring the dominant culture. Maintaining a brand can be expensive in marketing terms so you may wish to drop some entirely. In order for the transition to go smoothly it will require a lot of planning.

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Half Full vs. Half Empty

The Marq

In addition, our financial projections didn’t account certain expenses. Photo Credits: CarbonNYC and jenny downing Posted by Arash Sayadi on Friday, December 04, 2009 Topic: Inspirational Thought , Motivational , Optimists Perspective 0comments: Post a Comment Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe | Content copyright 2009.

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