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Small businesses in the US are the bread and butter of innovation; Good news for small businesses also often means good news for the country and local communities alike. While starting a business may appeal strongly to the entrepreneurial American spirit, how are start-ups and smaller businesses faring in the uncertain economic climate? One leading [...]

Invoice factoring is a financing option that can allow small businesses to access ready cash without taking out a loan or a business cash advance. There are many distinct advantages to factoring – for example unlike other services it is a mid-long term solution that takes into account the natural ebb and flow of your [...]

When disaster strikes we think of everything we should have thought of before the disaster and all to often, the best preparedness comes only in hindsight of that experience. But this isn’t exactly cost effective and you’d have to be fairly unlucky to have your business burn down twice. With modern techniques, you can protect [...]

CVS is the nation’s leading retail pharmacy chain. It’s also taken a lot of hits recently that has injured its stock price and given them publicity I’m sure they don’t like. It started out with their receiving notice from the FDA that they were making false claims about their mouthwash helping to prevent plaque and [...]

I had to think about where to put this one, and decided to post it here because I think this is the way many companies of this type are going to go. It’s finance related and credit card related, and that’s what this blog is all about. There’s also customer service issues, which will destroy [...]

Once again, CNN Money & Fortune Magazine has come up with the Top 100 Companies to work for list. This year, an entrant that’s been on every list since they began charting this has moved into the #1 spot for the first time. I can’t lie, I never heard of SAS before I checked this [...]

The Treasury Department today gave GMAC Financial Services another $3.79 billion dollars, bringing the total amount they’ve been given to more than $16 billion and, in effect, giving the government 56% ownership in the company. Who needs a quick loan? Supposedly, this new money is to help shore GMAC up to make sure they don’t [...]