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HOW TO: Run Your Business Online with $10 and a Google Account

Topics: Credit, Leverage, Management, Small Business, Social Media

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Online infrastructure for your small business doesn't have to be complicated or expensive. By leveraging many of the free and inexpensive products offered by Google, you can create a website, a domain-branded e-mail system, and a document collaboration platform, all unified under one master login and password. Once all of the virtual wires are connected, these services are extremely user-friendly, allowing anyone with a bit of web savvy to become the "system administrator" for their office.…

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For many unemployed workers, jobs aren't coming back

Topics: Consultant, Credit, Sales, Small Business

The U.S. economy will eventually rebound from the Great Recession. Millions of American workers will not. What some economists now project - and policymakers are loath to admit - is that the U.S. unemployment rate, which stood at 9.6% in August, could remain elevated for years to come. The nation's job deficit is so deep that even a powerful recovery would leave large numbers of Americans out of work for years, experts say. And with growth now weakening, analysts are doubtful that companies will boost payrolls significantly any time soon. Unemployment, long considered a temporary, transitional condition in the United…

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Welcome To The Worst Labor Day In History

Topics: Credit, Insurance, Investor, Qualification, Small Business

Welcome to the worst Labor Day in the memory of most Americans. Organized labor is down to about 7 percent of the private work force. Members of non-organized labor - most of the rest of us - are unemployed, underemployed or underwater. The Labor Department reported on Friday that just 67,000 new private-sector jobs were created in August, which, when added to the loss of public-sector (mostly temporary Census worker jobs) resulted in a net loss of over 50,000 jobs for the month. But at least 125,000 net new jobs are needed to keep up with the growth of the…

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Obama to propose new incentives to spur employment

Topics: Credit, Planning

Pressure on President Obama to do something about the weakening economy intensified Friday with new government data showing that hiring remains lackluster, nudging the nation's unemployment rate up to 9.6%. With congressional elections less than eight weeks away, Obama appeared in the Rose Garden to say that he would soon propose a new package of tax cuts and other incentives to spur employment. Obama spoke after the Labor Department reported that the nation lost 54,000 net jobs in August, fewer than economists had expected but still dismal. The private sector's weak gain of 67,000 jobs was wiped out largely by…

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Entrepreneurs, Do You Actually Enjoy Risky Business?

Topics: Credit, Entrepreneur, Risk, Small Business

The answer to that question is: no . Not any more than the next person. They just like their business better. They took risks because they saw the goal. It was the dark side of building the company. They like to. But when it comes to savings and investment, no. Well, actually, the most correct answer to that question is: You can't generalize. Some do, and some don't. Entrepreneurs are a bunch of hard-to-categorize individuals, and who has good data, because all we really get are successful entrepreneurs. True story: An investment advisor noted once that my wife and I…

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How Investors Can Understand The Market By Looking At Amoebas

Topics: Bookkeeping, Credit, Investor, Leverage, Management

This column was promised to introduction of MMT, or Modern Monetary Theory, since it is the only economic approach that comes close to mapping to the vast literature about known, biological model market systems, i.e. species and ecosystems. The parallels are of paramount utility to investors able to swing between hyper-local and systemic views in the endless pursuit of adequately managing both known risks and uncertainties. My conclusion, up front, is that investors need to invest as much or more time & resources in upgrading operations at the SEC, US Treasury, Federal Reserve and US Congress as they do in…

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