Small Business

How Millennials Could Make or Break the Brexit Vote

By Suman Bhattacharyya

In the final days before the referendum on Britain leaving the EU, poll numbers show the “leave” and “remain” sides in a dead heat. The Financial Times Brexit poll of polls has “leave” at 45 percent...
13 Tax Tips for Self-Employed Workers in 2016

By Janna Herron

The gig economy often means trickier taxes for self-employed workers. A third of the American workforce falls into that category, according to TurboTax, including 3.2 million on-demand workers, like...
How To Become an Everyday Millionaire…From Those Who’ve Done It

By Janna Herron

When you picture a millionaire’s lifestyle, does townhouse living or budgeting only $40,000 a year come to mind? Probably not. But it’s that type of frugal living that helped four everyday people to...
The Naughty Employee Costing Your Company More Than $12,000

By Millie Dent

We all have those colleagues who criticize you to co-workers behind your back, make rude remarks about your outfit or demand extra work from everyone but themselves. These toxic behaviors might be...
Employees Are Paying More – Much More – for Health Care

By Beth Braverman

While wages have been stagnant over the past decade, the amount that workers pay for employer-sponsored health insurance has more than doubled. Average employees at mid-size and large companies paid...

Behind Every Successful Woman, There’s a Clock

By Beth Braverman

Author Laura Vanderkam has made a career out of studying how people spend their time. For her latest book, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time , Vanderkam looked...
10 Worst States for Working Mothers

By Marine Cole

Working mothers may want to avoid moving to the South, where the quality of child care leaves a lot to be desired and professional opportunities are scarce.
What Successful People Don't Say at Work

By Travis Bradberry, Inc.com

You can't build a strong professional network if you don't open up to your colleagues; but doing so is tricky, because revealing the wrong things can have a devastating effect on your career.
10 Worst Cities to Start a Business in 2015

By Marine Cole

If you’re about to start a business, you may want to stay away from the New York City area and from the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas.
10 Best Cities to Start a Business

By Marine Cole

Some of the best cities to start a business are located in the South, where resources for small companies are often more available and more affordable than in Silicon Valley or the New York area.

Sand and Water: Nature’s Supply Chain for a Weird Job

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

Mark Mason, a sculptor and architect of a sort, has built elaborate castles around the world. Eventually, though, they wash away. This sandcastle expert and leader of a company called Team Sandtastic...
Make Sure to Dodge These 6 Retirement Dangers

By Barry Glassman, CNBC

The years just before retiring, when you're in your 50s and 60s, are the most critical to having a successful retirement. Typically, these are your peak earning years, when many of your larger...
Meet the Architect of the Real House of Cards

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

Stack a few cards on the living room floor – turn it into a professional full-time career that takes you around the globe and straight into the Guinness Book of World Records . That’s what Bryan Berg...
Odd Job of the Day: She Packs Up Kids’ Camp Trunks

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

Pack a trunk, make a buck. Dayna Brandoff, founder of Chaos Theory, Inc., a New York-based business, admits that packing kids up for summer camp is a niche segment of the professional organizing...
A Startup Called Washboard Promises $10 in Quarters for $15. Really.

By Marine Cole

If it isn’t a joke, Washboard is one of the silliest business ideas of the year. In a clear sign that the tech world is floating into a bubble, the company, which launched this week, allows you to...

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