UAH SBDC


 

 

Thursday, October 4, 2007
Winning Proposals for Federal Contracts: Responding to a Federal Government RFP
A one day workshop presented by Chuck Keller of Keller Proposal Development & Training and UAH Small Business Development Center

Cost: $195/person; includes continental breakfast and deli lunch (early registration by 9/19)

To register and pay in advance, please call Patsy Nayman, UAH SBDC, at 256.824.6422.

Where: BIZTECH at 515 Sparkman Dr.

Time: 8:30am -4:45pm

   
Thursday, October 4, 2007
2007 Alabama Federal/State Electronic Seminar
A half day seminar for Electronic Return Originators and Tax Professionals.
Sponsored by:
Internal Revenue Service
Co-sponsored by:
Alabama Department of Revenue, Social Security Administration, The Wiregrass Chapter,  the North Alabama Chapter of the Alabama Association of Accountants and the UAH Small Business Development Center

For registration information, please call 205.912.5524.

Where: Chan Auditorium, University of Alabama in Huntsville's Administrative Science Building

Time: 1:00pm -5:00pm

   
   
   
   
   


 
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Top 10 Reasons to Love Small Business
The Heart of the Nation's Economy
 
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Small businesses make up 99.7 percent of all United States employers.

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Small businesses create more than 50 percent of the American non-farm private gross domestic product. (GDP)

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Small patenting firms produce 13 to 14 times more patents per employee than large patenting firms.

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The more than 24 million small businesses in the United States are located in every community and neighborhood.

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Small businesses employ 50.1 percent of the United States' non-farm private sector workers.

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Home-based businesses account for 53 percent of all small businesses.

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Small businesses are 97 percent of America's exporters and produce 26 percent of all export value.

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United States saw an estimated 580,865 new small firms with employees start-up in the last year measured.

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There are approximately 4,115,900 minority-owned businesses and 6,492,795 women-owned businesses in the United States, and almost all of them are small businesses.

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The latest figures show that small businesses creates 65 percent or more of America's net new jobs.

 


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UAH SBDC Small Business Counseling Services
The UAH Small Business Development Center provides free counseling to small businesses in a seven county area. Solutions are specifically tailored to the needs of the business client. Sign up for counseling online.
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Small Business: Backbone of US Economy
Small businesses represent 99.7 percent of all firms, create more than half of the private non-farm gross domestic product, and generate 60 to 80 percent of the net new jobs.

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Benefit Costs Vary Dramatically with Firm Size
A new report released today by the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) details that the offering of benefits and their associated costs can vary dramatically with firm size.

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