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Imagine you’re rich. Super rich. Now, imagine you want to build yourself a clubhouse. Fun game so far, huh?

This clubhouse will be built in the middle of town, only you don’t want to have to pay for it. So, you convince your neighbors to pony up their money to pay for your shiny new clubhouse. Well, not so much convince as blackmail. See, if they don’t give you money to pay for the clubhouse, you will leave and take the town’s prized tourist attraction because, well, you own that, too.

So, they agree to build your clubhouse. Once built, you charge your neighbors an exorbitant fee to enter the clubhouse.

Sounds like a rotten deal, huh?

Interestingly enough, that’s exactly how most city stadiums are built. Sport tea

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With the vast amount of information and resources available online it can be quite a challenge for entrepreneurs and small business owners to find the small business help they need.< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

From deciding whether to start a business, setting up or acquiring a business, raising capital, acquiring credit, marketing, social media marketing, working with customers, growing your business, working online, selling online and much more it’s vital to have access to resources you can depend on.

Below are my top 25 all time favorite websites that provide small business owners the much needed support, news, information, resources, and tools needed to succeed in business today. <

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Brighton and Hove Chamber of Commerce is to stage a week of events celebrating business in the city in October under the banner ‘Business by the Sea’.

The events, which are open to owners and managers of any local business, are designed to strengthen the community bonds between businesses while also giving a no-obligation taster of Chamber of Commerce membership.

For four days from October 12, a variety of daily events will introduce non-members to the chamber’s commercial, social and influential advantages.

Highlights include a networking treasure hunt around central Brighton culminating in lunch, a local issues debate on the controversial question of whether Brighton needs a dedicated business district and entry for non-members to one of the chamber’s Friday networking breakfasts at Carluccio’s in the North Laine area.

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By Brian Madigan LL.B.

99% will reply that keys are a part of the house. In fact, they are part of the locking system for a house.

There are two parts:

1) the lock which is affixed permanently to the door, and

2) the key which provides access to the house by “unlocking” the lock.

So far, so good. No one seems to find it strange that the key is actually “detached”. It is n

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Small business owners are becoming acutely aware of the importance of establishing business credit scores that are completely separate from their personal credit scores.

In addition, many have found this to be a viable solution to overcome personal credit challenges that prevent them from obtaining credit.

While strong company credit files and scores can open the doors for various types of financing business owners should continue to work on improving personal credit scores as well.

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Talk about coincidences. Last week I downloaded Expensify’s expense report app to my Blackberry. Recovering from some frustrating bookkeeping -  the worst part of which was my expense reports – I hoped the service would live up to its promise to create “expense reports that don’t suck.” Within hours, I received a personal email from one of their developers, Michelle, welcoming me to Expensify and offering to answer any questions. This was not one of canned “we value you as a customer” emails.

I was impressed.

Then a few hours later, as I was tweeting about my “so far, so good” Expensify experience, I got an email from another team member who was unaware that I had just become a customer, but was reaching out to me as a writer to see if I would like to do a story about the fact that they company had just closed a second round of funding. So I asked founder David Barrett to share lessons he learned while successfully raising money – twice – in a lousy economy.

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Evansville-based Integra Bank Corp. has completed a previously-announced sale of three branch offices in Kentucky.

The offices — two in Cadiz and one in Mayfield — were sold to Mayfield-based FNB Bank. With the acquisitions, FNB operates a total of eight offices.

The deal with FNB is the last of five transactions announced by Integra this year as part of a strategy to reduce the bank’s operating footprint and improve its financial position. All told, Integra has shed 17 branch offices this year.

Integra has lost money for the past nine quarters, most recently a $10.2 million loss in the second quarter.

“This (branch sale) strategy has greatly strengthened our capital and resulted in narrowing our geographic operating footprint to 48 branches all within 100 miles of Evansville, plus four branches in the Chicago area we continue to market for eventual sale,” Integra Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mike Alley said in a press release issued Friday.

In the FNB deal, FNB purchased the three branch offices at book value. As

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The number one complaints from servicing loan modification companies like American Home Mortgage, EMC, Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo is incomplete submissions!  It is a processors worst nightmare!  Truly speaking from experience here folks…. Not only does it bog down the system and wastes a lot of people’s time, in the end it could mean the difference on getting help or not!! YIKES!!!

After all folks we are talking about your home, aren’t we?  This is where you have made your memories, where your kids have grown up etc. This is a serious epidemic in our country.  By all means be proactive!!! If you kn

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Jack Reynolds has a woodworking shop that would make Geppetto flush with envy.

And like Pinocchio’s creator, Reynolds works magic in his West Franklin Street shop.

Reynolds’ company, Mark-it Bright Designs specializes in a unique form of digital screen printing which burns near perfect photographic images onto wood surfaces such as tables and wall décor. It’s a process he says no one else in the nation is doing.

Back in 2004, Reynolds had just left his job as sales manager for a chemicals manufacturer and decided he wanted to trade in the drudge of mundane work for something that would challenge him both in the business and creative sense.

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