Do you own and operate a franchise? Many entrepreneurs and new small business owners go the route of owning a franchise to get a running start into an established business niche using a recognized name and operating paradigm. However, most often, these entrepreneurs depend too much on the franchisor to perform all search engine optimization tactics. Alas, that folly usually costs the entrepreneur valuable search engine ranking.

The fact is that even with a recognizable name, you need to announce your location, business hours, product or service offerings, special deals, etc.

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce not weighing in on $30-billion lending bill.

At a time when many small business owners are looking to Congress to enact a $30-billion small business lending bill, some of the nation’s most prominent lobbying groups have remained largely silent.

Bloomberg reports that the country’s three largest pro-business groups, the U.S.

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Business Credit Bureau

As a business owner it’s important for you to understand the integral role that a business credit bureau plays in the world of business finance. The data it collects on your business can impact whether or not your application for credit is approved or declined, the rate of interest your company will pay and even the amount of credit you can obtain.

In simple words, a business credit bureau is a repository of collected trade and credit information on millions of companies.    

All this collected data is compiled into what are known as business credit reports which are furnished to potential creditors so the creditors can make sound credit granting decisions.

The integrity of this information being disseminated is vital to the success of our country’s credit system.

So it’s essential for you to know how a business credit bureau gets its information about your company. The more i

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Administration comes out in favor of healthcare reform

When it comes to healthcare legislation news for entrepreneurs, there is one business organization that is firmly in support, thanks to money-saving tax credits within the bill.

The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Region VII administrator, Daniel Hannaher, recently wrote that small businesses with fewer than 25 employees who make less than $50,000 a year will be entitled to a tax credit of up to 35 percent.

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In a press release today U.S. Bank announced the launch of a new online payment management tool called ScoreBoard for its small business credit cardholders. < ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

In an effort to empower business owners with better management and decision making tools it can quite possibly set a new standard in services available to business credit cardholders.

ScoreBoard is an online tool that US Bank Visa cardholders can access via their U.S.

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BerryBestMoms.com features products made by mothers

There is a new website seeking to become the mother of all resources for entrepreneurs.

BerryBestMoms.com will help mothers that own small businesses bring their products and services to consumers interested in supporting them. The central location for products by and for active mothers hopes to highlight the creativity and ingenuity of the items. The site offers 120 different products from mothers all over the world, from Australia to the United States.

“We want you to love them too, and feel that the best way to make sure we are offering you the very best products is to keep ourselves, as a business, completely independent from manufacturing our own products, or advocating a specific political or religious point of view,?

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