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. Additionally, starting in 2014, the credits will increase to 50 percent on the premiums they pay for employees.

Hannaher wrote that the bill was a positive step forward when it came to enabling small businesses to provide healthcare to employees.

“Overall, the Affordable Care Act is a critical tool that will help millions of small business owners provide health insurance to people who they often consider to be members of their extended family ?

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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. Bank Internet Banking Account and it provides two main features.

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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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We have previously touted the benefits of growing a contact list and staying in touch with your customer base with a regular email newsletter. However, out of the hundreds or even thousands of emails you send with each newsletter, how many actually get opened and read before being sent from the inbox to the trash?

With so much technology at our hands, it is easy to get carried away with a newsletter format, especially one that is unable to be translated by some email services. Here are a four tips to help assure that your email gets noticed, gets read, and the recipient gets the full benefit of your news.

1. Limit Graphics

   Unfortunately, thanks to spammer technology and strategies, many email services do not present images in email messages.

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411 Listing: 411 Business Listing

Why is getting your business listed in the 411 directory such a vital part of the business credit building process?

Does it really matter whether or not your company is in the White Pages or registered with Directory Assistance?

Absolutely!

As a matter of fact you can expect to have a much harder time getting approved for business credit without one.

The reason is when applying for credit with a supplier or creditor one of the very first things checked to verify the legitimacy of your company is whether or not you have a 411 business listing.

A non listed business will automatically trigger a red flag with most creditors and result in a denial of credit.

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No small business owner wants to cut employees. Providing a means to earn a living to your workers can be one of the biggest satisfactions from being a business owner. However, when the economy tightens up and cash flow slows to a trickle, layoffs always come up as an option just to stay in business.

Thankfully, there are ways to hold off layoffs that can help a small business survive until happy days are here again and still retain all the great workers you have. Here are a few tips.

1. Be Straight With Your Employees

   At the first consideration of cutting back expenses, hold a company meeting and let everyone know the situation. Tell them that tough decisions might have to be made, and that while you will do everything you can to avoid layoffs, it still may be a last alternative.

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The single most essential quality for business success is integrity. Drive, determination and perseverance are important, but even the most determined and hardest working individual will find his/her success limited if co-workers, clients and business partners cannot totally trust that individual’s words and actions. Note that integrity is not only about speaking truthfully, but it is also about living truthfully. The most successful business people I know are consistently respectful and considerate in their business dealings. Their own personal effectiveness is magnified by the loyal and dedicated supporters they earn among their employees and customers because of their integrity.

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Your small business website is one of the most important and central marketing tools you have at your disposal. You have a great layout, excellent copy, and stunning visuals – so why is your bounce rate so high? The speed of your website may be the guilty culprit.

What can slow a website down, or make a reader want to click away? And how can you improve the speed of your website that converts traffic into sales?

Website Slowdown Cause #1

A web page contains an HTML file that tells a browser how to interpret the code, along with other files like graphics, images, audio, and animation. The website is slow because it is too “heavy.” A heavy website is one that has too many files to load. Each

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