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    How Can Small Businesses Survive in Today’s Economy? The idea of working for yourself and managing your own time is interesting. Thinking about some advantages of being your own boss, many professional designers are trying to find their place in the market. Discussing when is the best time to start a business, if it’s really worth, and how to get started are relevant issues. When this important decision, there are many view points to consider. Why do people start their own business? Some are

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    to Burma with the aim of raising the living standards in the country. His life experiences motivated him to write Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered, a collection of essays that discuss the problems with the Western economic model and provide an alternative one which, as suggested by the title, would focus on the welfare of the ‘small’ person rather

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    Discussion on Information Technology on Business Information technology is the application of computers and telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data, often in the context of a business. The term is commonly used as a synonym for computers and computer networks, but it also encompasses other information distribution technologies such as television and telephones. Several industries are associated with information technology, including computer hardware, software

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    Mind your Businesses When asked what a favorite restaurant or café is, often the answer is a unique local business. It’s easy to embrace local character. Local businesses do more than just increase home town pride though; they play an important role in stabilizing the community’s economy. Arizona revenue structure experiences extreme variances in comparison to the national general economy. Marshall Vest, an economic research director at the University of Arizona, found that “Arizona is second only

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    have been drastically impacted, as have the lives of workers in the United States. Many articles have been published about different aspects of the recession. One question that has not been completely addressed is how the Great Recession has affected small business and unemployment rates. The reason for addressing

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    debt are not likely to become wealthy anytime soon which raises a question if higher education is even worth it. Making higher education affordable is a key to grow the middle class. The other reason that might be affecting the middle class being small is medical insurance not being available for the most. Not everyone can afford medical insurance. Government needs to provide affordable medical insurance to improve the middle class and cut down poverty. Last but not least, opening a business is a

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    may be associated with an underlying digestive imbalance include: avoiding wheat, gluten, dairy, fatty, greasy or fried food. Sometimes the dietary shift is toward a more restrictive diet like becoming a vegetarian, vegan, raw foodist, or eating six small meals a day. Even just a simple shift away from the Standard American Diet (SAD) toward more vegetables and less heavy foods like

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    Social Media, No Matter the Size “Nearly three quarters (73%) of small business owners said they access social networks on smart phones or other mobile devices, yet 67% are holding back investing in social media because they don 't know where to begin.” (Heath, 2011) Social Media is without a doubt the new kind of business. However, small businesses are falling behind because even though they use these platforms personally, they wonder how these same tools used for entertainment, can be used to enhance

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    An Analytics software is a key requirement for any small business which is dependent on an online presence to maximize its reach. The analytics software helps one understand the best ways to reach ones customers and draw more traffic and hence business. Google Analytics helps with the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data from a website and the competition to drive continual improvement of the online experience that customers and potential customers have, which translates into desired outcome

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    business partner by the name of Leo Kahn that could supplied the company with the started up funds of $500,000,which, is a remarkable investment being that the company due more than $11.6 billion in sale (Alan, 2009). Staples was created to supply small business with office products that would be offered at smaller quality merchandised, lowest cost, and this is a new avenue that no other company have marketed, or expanding upon the industry of being profitable. There are no other businesses to leverage

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