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The Right Conversation About Sustainable Living

Success

In the mirror, he sees a man who started self-medicating with cocaine and alcohol after losing his wife to cancer. Babcock visited Bonton for the first time in 2011. That’s an axiom Babcock has experienced all too well: In Bonton, he sees kids beaten up by their peers for getting good grades.

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Why India Is a Rising Star Among Exporting Nations

The Small Business Blog

Soaring labor and materials costs are eroding China’s edge , opening the door for other emerging economies to challenge China’s manufacturing preeminence. Already a leader in software services and a major exporter of textiles and chemicals, the world’s second most-populous country boasts exceptionally low labor costs.

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Fidelity on Leading Sectors for Innovation

Small Business Labs

.  Leading Sectors for Innovation from Fidelity Investments looks at innovations in health care/medical devices, media and entertainment and information technology.    The medical innovation areas covered include genomics, biotech pharmaceuticals and digital health records. 

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Five Surprising Health Insurance Tax Tips For Small Business Owners and The Self Employed

Small Business CEO

Take a one-time opportunity to reduce your self-employment taxes - In addition to the standard ‘above the line’ deduction described below, self-employed persons can also deduct the cost of their health insurance premiums from their self-employment taxes on Schedule SE. of your adjusted gross income.

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MBO Partners: A Business Platform for Independent Consultants.

Small Business Labs

  Their infrastructure service includes (from their website):  "group health benefits, retirement programs, a business and medical expense reimbursement program, billing and invoicing, and more."   This means, legally, the consultants and freelancers work for MBO Partners. 

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Top Seven Open Enrollment Tips for Small Businesses

Small Business CEO

With open enrollment season officially underway, many small businesses, as well as their employees, are wrestling with the rising cost of health insurance. Here are seven cost-cutting open enrollment tips for small businesses: 1. The good news: there are many ways for small businesses to mitigate those increases.

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Are Your Friends Sabotaging Your Business?

Men With Pens

If 2 out of those 6 hours are given away, it just cost me 33% of my potential income. By the time I expensed medical, insurance, retirement etc, I barely broke even. Especially since at the time, I had not yet incorporated marketing and learning costs into my rates, leaving me zero buffer to even offer a discount for returning clients.