Not Hiring?
It is not new news that small businesses are not hiring like they used to. In fact, it is pretty obvious that these small companies are making do with the smallest amount of staff possible. Most people want to blame it all on the recession. Well, honestly the recession has influenced hiring a great deal, but there is something else that is affecting how many employees small businesses are actually hiring. It’s the rising costs of health care that is making it difficult for small businesses to really start hiring up new...
read moreWall Street Reform and the Credit Meltdown
Wall Street Reform, also called Financial Reform, was a law signed by President of the United States Barack Obama on July 22, 2010. Since the time of th infamous economic crisis of 2007-09 during which millions of jobs were lost, small and large businesses failed, house prices took a catastrophic dive, and savings were completely wiped out, there was a fierce and furious debate taking place regarding accusations of insufficient oversight and regulation of the US financial system. It was believed by Washington liberals that the...
read moreWork from Home Trends
Many corporations and smaller businesses have recently been showing a lot of love and support for alternative work environments. For some time now, theses companies have been promoting the fact that people don’t necessarily have to work in an office all the time, and can do just as well (and sometimes better) from the convenience of their own homes. The work-at-home, telecommute, or work in other places philosophy has been gaining support for a number of reasons. This makes a lot of sense, because many studies have found that people...
read moreS&P Redefines “Risk Free”
The structure of the US two party system has finally taken it too far- bipartisan polarities are cited as one of the main reasons by Standard & Poor’s credit rating agency as one of the main reasons why long-term American Treasury debt is no longer considered “risk-free”, and as a main reason for the recent US credit rating downgrade. S & P’s low confidence in the ability for the opposing parties to work together greatly inhibits the ability for Congress to function or come anywhere close to a reasonably...
read moreSEO for All Businesses
Most web traffic is driven by the world’s three biggest commercial search engines – Bing, Google, Yahoo!. You need SEO practices in place to make sure your site can be found by these search engines when they “crawl” the web, associating keywords with search results. If your site is under the radar of search engines or your content can’t be indexed, your business will suffer immeasurable harm by allowing the people who might need to be matched up with your services to slip right by into the web clutches of your...
read moreWomen in Business Rising Stars
Women continue to make strides in the business world. 50% + of more than 10 million firms are currently owned by women, and twenty-six percent of all women-owned businesses are headed by women of color. Business owners who are women continue to make a strong mark on the economy, despite the dreary outlook and economic hard times faced by a world in debt crisis. This seems to be because even during a downturn, women business leaders keep looking ahead at long term goals and predictions and finding ways to weather the...
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