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Unlocking Your Business Potential: Small Business Loan Strategies

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Proportionate receipts do not include proceeds from transactions between the concern and its joint ventures (e.g., subcontracts from a joint venture entity to joint venture partners) already accounted for in the concern’s tax return. In determining the number of employees, a concern must include in its total number of employees its proportionate share of individuals employed by the joint venture. For the calculation of receipts, the appropriate proportionate share is the same percentage of receipts or employees as the joint venture partner’s percentage share of the work performed by the joint venture. For a populated joint venture (where work is…Continue Reading

Small Business Management Trends: Staying Competitive

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Food trucks are hugely popular, often offering unique, specialty foods that often wouldn’t sell as easily in brick-and-mortar restaurants. Take your mom’s famous dumpling recipe or your off-the-wall dessert idea and hit the road to local events, farmer’s markets, your local town square, large corporate complexes at the lunchtime rush — wherever you’re likely to draw a crowd. Keep in mind that to run a food truck, you usually have to meet a special set of ordinances and safety compliance standards, so contact your local health department to determine what your mobile restaurant will require. For example, let’s say you’ve…Continue Reading

Capitalizing Your Business: Small Business Loan Essentials

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We are proud to work with practitioners from economic development agencies, governments, and leading universities across the U.S. to produce nonpartisan analyses, practical insights, and peer-reviewed scholarship that’s light on jargon and heavy on impact. CSBDF provides financing solutions and guidance to help entrepreneurs achieve their business goals. We provide financing to both start-ups and existing businesses in North Carolina and we are dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs throughout the life of their loan. Our loan process begins with a business consultation so we can assess an entrepreneur’s specific needs and recommend the best suite of options to ensure success. The…Continue Reading

Small Business Marketing Made Simple

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Lawn care services require little more than some basic equipment, a trailer and perhaps some staff, depending on how many clients you have and how big the jobs are. You can grow a small lawn care service into a full landscaping company by offering premium services and establishing a reputation as a brand that does a thorough job with a smile. If you like working outdoors and creating elegant landscapes, this could be the business for you. However, there are some startup costs to consider, such as purchasing a food truck and modifying it to meet local regulations. If you’re…Continue Reading

Securing Your Future: Small Business Funding Essentials

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Shop Small has grown to be a year-round movement that supports small businesses across the globe, and Small Business Saturday continues to be an annual holiday shopping tradition. Shop Small initially started when Amex created Small Business Saturday® to encourage support for small businesses back in 2010. Main Street America, our longtime partner, is committed to helping communities stay vibrant, connected and welcoming to all. They’ve compiled skill-building resources, tools and inspiration to help communities and small businesses thrive – see for yourself. When you Shop Small with an American Express® Card, you can get rewarded for supporting the small businesses that speak to…Continue Reading

Small Business Management 101: Building a Strong Foundation

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While it may seem easier to spend a little bit of time every day coming up with something to post, this can actually be more time-consuming (and stressful) in the long run. Now that you know how to use social media for small business, it’s time to get online. Every business owner knows how difficult it can be to attract new customers. You can spend hours crafting the perfect product and designing an eye-catching website, but if no one knows you exist, it’s all for nothing. In fact, 71% of small-to-mid-sized businesses use social media to market themselves, and 52%…Continue Reading

Small Business Management and Leadership in Action

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Overall, small businesses are still in strife with the talent gap in recruitment — with many business owners struggling to find candidates with the right skills, experience, and qualifications. In addition to work experience, small business owners also reported challenges with finding candidates who have the right technical skills (12%) and soft skills (11%). Many business owners cited the lack of necessary work experience among candidates as a primary challenge (18%), while 17 percent of respondents surveyed identified competition from other employers as their main hurdle. While recruiting and retaining employees remains a top challenge, there was a 16 percent drop…Continue Reading

The Power of Credit: Small Business Loan Strategies

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To create a course, you’ll need to sign up on an online course platform such as WordPress or Teachable, sketch out a curriculum, film your lectures, and create worksheets and guides. You can be as hands-on or as hands-off as you’d like, but to make this online business as passive as possible, you’d ideally record all your lectures at once and allow users to access them by paying a premium fee. Choose a niche you’re passionate about, and this online business idea can feel less like work and more like a profitable hobby. Print-on-demand (POD) is another way to start…Continue Reading