Small Business

January 5, 2017 

New applications for residential loans took a turn for the worse during the holidays, though purchase-money activity mostly held up compared to a year previous.

January 2, 2017 

Many brands have already taken out preservatives and removed artificial ingredients - the next challenge is to leverage packaging to convey and deliver freshness without the chemicals that consumers view as undesirable for their health. Brands need to ...

January 2, 2017 

The new protections are called the Seafood Import Monitoring Program, and they are designed to stop illegally fished and intentionally misidentified seafood from getting into stores and restaurants by way of imported fish.

December 27, 2016 

Most hotels are already completely booked, or have blocked their remaining rooms from booking by websites. According to the survey, about 10 percent of hotels in central Washington are still offering available rooms for January 20, 2017, the day ...

December 21, 2016 

For the third consecutive year, Illinois has lost more residents than any other state, losing 37,508 people in 2016, which puts its population at the lowest it has been in nearly a decade, according to U.S. census data released Tuesday.

December 20, 2016 

Today's small business owners have limited time and resources and wear many hats, from founder, to sales lead, to head of IT. Because of this, they often get stuck in day-to-day activities and fail to look at how to strategically apply technology to ...

December 19, 2016 

The first step is specifying value from the standpoint of the customer. Accounting firms have multiple customers. The easiest to identify are, of course, the clients who pay you. But as you begin to understand the core of Lean, you need to identify ...

December 19, 2016 

Companies partner for a deeper integration to offer seamless online bill pay

December 18, 2016 

In this QB Power Hour webinar with Michelle Long, she discusses job costing in QuickBooks Online (QBO) Plus. She also talks about some of the limitations of Job costing in QuickBooks Online at this time and 3rd party apps to consider.

December 16, 2016 

Demand for capital jumped four percent from last quarter and 13 percent from a year ago (Q4 2015). However, access to capital for small businesses has not kept pace with the growth of demand: year-over-year access is up nearly seven percent, while ...

December 15, 2016 

The holiday season is the perfect time for managers to express their appreciation for the hard work their employees have done over the past year. If you don't have a policy on managers handing out holiday gifts, follow these guidelines to keep morale inta

December 15, 2016 

U.S. insurers are becoming more skilled at underwriting and pricing stand-alone cyber insurance policies as businesses show a greater interest in protecting themselves from data breaches and attacks, according to the Insurance Information Institute.