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Seafood Big Seller During Summer

Seafood can be a great summer addition to any food-related business. Some industries experience major shifts in performance based on seasons. For example, gyms and construction companies tend to do better in the summer, while other industries such as sporting goods stores that specialize in skiing do better during the wintertime. However, there is one
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Trucking Industry Looking Toward Bright Future

Trucks are still the dominant form of freight transportation in the US. This past century has been one of change, more so than almost any other period of time. One industry where change has been the most dramatic and the most rapid is transportation. Trains replaced carriages, then cars replaced trains, then airplanes replaced cars
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Small Business Lenders Help Post-Recession

Small business lenders have begun to fill the vacuum left by banks. We may have begun to see the end of the Great Recession, but many of its effects are still hamstringing small business owners. The Great Recession was devastating to small business. According to the US Census, there were over 337,000 fewer companies with
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Summer Big Season for Gym Memberships

The summer is one of the two busiest times of the year for gyms. There are two times of the year that, more than any others, people flock to the gym in droves. The first is at the beginning of January, as people attack their New Year’s resolutions with a vengeance by trying to get
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Summer Vacation? Not for Many Small Business Owners

The demand of running a business makes it difficult to take vacations. For most people, the summertime is a chance to slow down, relax and decompress from the relentless grind of work. For many entrepreneurs and small business owners, it’s just another few months at the office. According to a recent survey by Office Depot,
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How to Finance Your Small Business

There are some simple ways for your business to save a lot of money We’ve talked a lot about how positive the current economic climate looks for small business owners. It’s true – several years after the beginning of a recession, the tide has begun to turn in favor of small businesses, and trends of
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Small Businesses Continue to Create Jobs

Small businesses in the US experienced their ninth consecutive month of positive growth. Some more encouraging news for small business owners! According to a recent study, small businesses in the United States added 118,000 jobs in June. That was a full sixty percent better than the average for the first five months of 2014, and
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Fourth of July Brings Business Opportunities

Independence Day is a big day for many different industries Well, it’s almost that time of year. In two days’ time, it’ll be the Fourth of July, where we celebrate our independence in the most American ways possible: by festooning ourselves in red, white and blue, launching fiery projectiles into the night and grilling lots
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