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IRAs Help Small Business Owners Prepare for Future

Small business owners need to plan for their retirement, reports Small Business Trends. One way to do that is to create and IRA. Read more...

Net Neutrality is Needed

According to Forbes, changes to net neutrality could impact small business. Even if your business isn’t a tech company, losing net neutrality could affect your business. Without it your software may stop working or you might be charged an exorbitant amount to have a fast internet connection. Read more...

Business Executives’ Optimism about U.S. Economy Hits a Post-Recession High

Nearly three out of four business executives have an optimistic view of the U.S. economy over the next 12 months, a consensus not seen since before the Great Recession, according to the fourth-quarter AICPA Economic Outlook Survey, which polls chief executive officers, chief financial officers, controllers and other certified public accountants in U.S. companies who hold executive and senior management accounting roles. While the survey was fielded with tax reform deliberations underway, it’s important to note it closed before passage of the Senate tax bill this past weekend, so survey sentiment does not reflect that development. Read more...

Small Business Lending Unfair

A new report by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a grassroots organization that strives to create opportunities to grow wealth, finds that racial disparity exists in small business lending opportunities. Read more...

How to Get a Cyber Security Plan

According to Small Business Trends, cyber security is just as important for small businesses as it is for large businesses. However, many small businesses refrain from getting a system because they have no idea how to begin. Read more...

Small Business Saturday Numbers Show Decline

Small Business Saturday’s eighth year showed a decline in spending, reports CNBC. Over all 108 million shoppers spent $12.9 billion, which is in both shoppers and dollars. In 2016 112 million shoppers spending more than $15 billion. Read more...

Using Technology to Grow

According to Forbes, small businesses are not incorporating new technology into their marketing and business operations. By failing to do so businesses are impeding their own growth,
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New MSSP Designed for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

Zeneth, an information technology and security firm with a strong focus on the federal market and previously known as Zeneth Technology Partners, announced today expansion into the commercial market with the launch of ZenOpz. ZenOpz is a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) designed and priced to help protect small and mid-sized businesses from the same threats faced by larger enterprises—at an affordable monthly rate. Located in both Arlington and Charlottesville, Virginia, ZenOpz will serve mid-market businesses faced with both growing cybersecurity regulations and growing consumer expectations for privacy and data security. Read more...

Small And Mid-Size Businesses Can Save Thousands

As year-end approaches, CEOs and small business owners are well into planning for 2018. But they may miss planning for one common but often overlooked problem - sales and use tax miscalculations. One local firm developed a new technology to help small and mid-size businesses with this fast-growing niche. LBMC, a Top 50 accounting firm and the largest professional services organization in Tennessee, recently rolled out TaxView Express through a certified alliance with Dynamic Tax Solutions (DTS) to meet a growing need in the market. Read more...

Small Business Healthcare Still Available from ACA

According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, while the long term future is uncertain for the Affordable Care Act, it is still a viable option for small businesses. However, the enrollment period is shorter this year, ending on December 15. Read more...

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