- 5/7/2008
Stormy Knight, Contributing Writer
Every day people around the world attain loans from banks for cars, homes, businesses, and other large expenditures which they do not readily have funds. Applying for loans has become a common practice. Generally one seeks a loan for at least $15,000 or more and those individuals need collateral, steady employment, and verifiable satisfactory credit to qualify for the loan.
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E-Magnify Offers Business Counseling in Pittsburgh - 5/7/2008

Seton Hill University’s E-Magnify women’s business center provides direct client counseling for women interested in starting a business or growing an existing business.
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Cultivating Power: Marketing to Women as a Collective Economic MiracleGro

- 3/24/2008
Karissa Kilgore, contributing writer
A woman in business has power within her and around her at all times. Finding power within herself, individually, she is a strong force�one woman with brilliance and resilience. Her power, though, when unified with that of her peers, becomes an undeniably reinforced collective, capable of success in any design.

One woman's power might be enough to drive her to reach her own dreams or to counsel her friends, but it's impossible for one woman to change the world. Impossible for a man, even; without good company and support, any single voice can be silenced. But, in their natural networks, women do have the advantage in this situation�any one woman can amass the power of her fellow females and engage them in her passion, whatever it may be.

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Are You Ready to License?

- 2/7/2008
Susan Friedmann, CSP
"I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."

Jerome K. Jerome's famous quote may have been intended as a tongue-in-cheek celebration of laziness — but there's a gem in there that Nichepreneurs™ can profit from.

Licensing may not be the first word that comes to mind when you're considering your career, particularly if you've made your niche in the service industry.
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Reimagining the Future: 12 Global Small Business Trends to Watch in 2008

- 1/22/2008
Laurel Delaney, Contributing Writer
Small businesses are the heart and soul of our world entrepreneurial economy. They create, inspire, and fundamentally change people’s lives. In the United States, we keep nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit—a force that built America—and people from all over the world, rather than offering criticism, are engaging in the highest form of flattery: imitation. We must be doing something right!

Let’s take a look at 12 global small business trends to watch in 2008, trends that can be embraced by any culture and will add value to any nation.
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