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Microbusiness profile: Mercado del Mundo

The National Retail Federation is not expecting this year’s holiday shopping season to be the sort of thing that will make the hearts of retailers glad. At least not much.
Overall receipts are expected to decline by 1%; all the price slashing that will be needed to lure wary and broke customers into stores will eat [...]

Microbusiness Profile: Washington Accounting Services

Over the last few months, we’ve heard fairly often about “forced entrepreneurs” or “accidental entrepreneurs.” Those are the folks who get laid off during economic downturns, can’t find a job, and end up starting a small business out of something like desperation.
Usually, we are told, the proprietors of these little desperation enterprises set them aside [...]

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