Rolling the dice or stacking the deck?
I suppose I should have expected that, with the economy doing what it’s doing and with legions (or so the expectation goes) of “forced entrepreneurs” crawling out of the woodwork, I would start getting press releases on the subject from supposed experts.
One of the biggest problems I find is that, in the avalanche of ‘hey, [...]
Microbusiness news updates: credit cards and red flags
Most of the time, I don’t miss having staff.
But if there is an exception to that sentiment, it is on the subject of following up.
You see, I write about all sorts of legislative proposals and other moves and shakes performed by the Washington movers and shakers on behalf of small businesses (and even, occasionally, [...]
The 5 best friends to microbusiness on Capitol Hill
Kristie Darien: As executive director of the legislative office of the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE), Kristie has the thankless task of educating an ever-rotating cast of characters on the Congressional Small Business Committees about everything from the structural basics of microbusinesses to their specific policy needs. She fights an uphill battle almost completely [...]
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Dawn Rivers Baker, aka The Journal Blogger, is the editor and publisher of The MicroEnterprise Journal, and the self-proclaimed Socrates of the small business blogosphere. See her 


