Matt Quinn


Taking Care of the Little Things

By Matt Quinn |  Apr 18, 2005

Hildebrandt Learning Centers has found success in the on-site employer daycare niche.  Read story

Power to the Patients

By Matt Quinn |  Apr 18, 2005

Quality Assured Services Inc. wants to get people involved in their own medical care.  Read story

Trucking Industry Faces Driver Shortage

By Matt Quinn |  Nov 1, 2004

What threatens holiday sales.  Read story

Protecting Your Business from Online Fraud

By Matt Quinn |  Jul 1, 2004

An order had just come in through your Web site. The credit card number had cleared. The address was verified. Your fraud detection software isn't returni...  Read story

A Web of Ways to Bring Users to Your Site

By Matt Quinn |  Jul 1, 2004

Everyone who runs a Web site wants to climb his or her way up the results of a Google search, but that can cost no less than thousands and up to millions ...  Read story

Summer Is Here, Owners Look to Get Away

By Matt Quinn |  Jun 1, 2004

More small business owners are trying to leave it all behind.  Read story

Airlines Raise Ticket Prices

By Matt Quinn

Increased fuel costs cited as major reason.  Read story

Business Bankruptcies Decline

By Matt Quinn

May 25, 2004 --Business bankruptcies fell 2% for the year ending March 31, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. ...  Read story

Small Businesses Looking for Bigger Say with FASB

By Matt Quinn

May 27, 2004 --Since the collapses of the likes of Enron and WorldCom and the introduction of the Sarbanes-Oxley governance laws in 2002, ...  Read story

FedEx Freight Hikes Rates

By Matt Quinn

May 26, 2004 --While already being hit with soaring gas prices at the pump, businesses took another lump on Monday when FedEx Freight anno...  Read story

As Gas Prices Surge, Businesses Feel Pinch

By Matt Quinn

May 25, 2004 --Gas prices continue to climb and have many small businesses worrying, says a new survey by the National Federation of Indep...  Read story

IRS Lends Small Businesses a Hand with Retirement Plan Compliance

By Matt Quinn

May 21,2004 -- The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently rolled out two new tools to aid small businesses in keeping their retirement p...  Read story

Time May Be Ripe to Move Online

By Matt Quinn

May 26, 2004 --For small businesses that have been debating whether to move online, recent sales numbers are making a strong case for maki...  Read story

New Resource for Early Stage Capital Financing

By Matt Quinn

The National Association of Seed and Venture Funds has formed a partnership with the Capital Formation Institute, Inc. in order to conduct research and ed...  Read story

SBA Announces National Small Business Person of the Year

By Matt Quinn

May 24, 2004 -- Sheree W. Mitchell, owner of the aptly-named Growing Room, Inc., was named the 2004 National Small Business Person of the...  Read story

Bush Supports Small Business Health Plan

By Matt Quinn

June 23, 2004 -- Last week, President Bush offered his support for legislation that would allow small businesses to band together across ...  Read story

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Names New Chairman

By Matt Quinn

June 14, 2002 -- The United States Chamber of Commerce tapped John Bachmann, senior partner at investment firm Edward Jones, to be its ne...  Read story

Cost of Benefits Outpaces Compensation Growth

By Matt Quinn

June 30, 2004 -- Total employee compensation is increasingly being made up of benefits like health insurance, according to a new report p...  Read story

Credit Association Proposes Easing SBA Loan Standards

By Matt Quinn

June 29, 2004 -- The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) has proposed loosening its collateral requirement rules in an effort to ...  Read story

Bush Creates Faith-Based SBA Center

By Matt Quinn

June 1, 2004 -- President Bush signed an executive order creating three new federal centers for faith-based initiatives on Tuesday. The S...  Read story

Small Business to Get More FCC Consideration

By Matt Quinn

June 11, 2004 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy is making sure the Federal Communications Commission remembers th...  Read story

Fed Begins Survey of Small Businesses

By Matt Quinn

June 11, 2004 -- The Federal Reserve announced on Thursday that it had begun its latest Survey of Small Business Finances. The survey is ...  Read story

Private Health Care Spending Slowing

By Matt Quinn

June 10, 2004 -- A new study revealed that private health care spending grew by 7.4 percent in 2003, down from 9.5 percent in 2002. It ma...  Read story

CEOs Expect to Add Workers

By Matt Quinn

June 3, 2004 -- With economic conditions continuing to strengthen, a growing number of chief executives plan on hiring workers by the end...  Read story

Hispanic Businesses on Growth Path

By Matt Quinn

June 7, 2004 -- Six years from now, Hispanic-owned businesses will earn an estimated $465 billion and number 3.2 million, according to a n...  Read story

Hotel Rates on the Rise

By Matt Quinn

June 9, 2004 -- While it's already more expensive to travel due to high gas prices, it's become pricier to lay your head down once you re...  Read story

CEOs Unfazed by Looming Fed Hike

By Matt Quinn

June 8, 2004 -- While the bond markets fret over an expected increase in interest rates, many chief executives anticipate the move to hav...  Read story

The End of Internet Users?

By Matt Quinn

June 24, 2004 -- While commercials and Web sites have joked about reaching the "end of t...  Read story

As Interest Rates Rise, Small Businesses Look Out

By Matt Quinn

July 1, 2004 -- All that cheap capital that has helped the economy recover in the last few years just got a little bit more expensive.Read story

IT Workers Unhappy, But Earning More

By Matt Quinn

June 10, 2004 -- Money doesn't buy happiness. At least not for IT workers, according to a study on the state of the information technolog...  Read story

NFIB Ramps Up Lobbying Effort Against Lawsuits

By Matt Quinn

June 30, 2004 -- The National Federation of Independent Business is throwing its weight behind legislation aimed at curbing the number of...  Read story

Bank Mergers Worry Business Owners

By Matt Quinn

The stock markets were disappointed on Wednesday when HSBC Holdings and Citigroup, Inc. hinted they would not acquire any United States' banks in the near...  Read story

Minimum Wage Debate on the Horizon

By Matt Quinn

June 17, 2004 -- With worries about many low paying jobs having already been lost abroad, Congress will consider whether those left behin...  Read story

Small Business Optimism Dips

By Matt Quinn

June 9, 2004 -- Growing inflation concerns are cutting into small businesses' optimism, according to the National Federation of Independe...  Read story

Few U.S. Jobs Moving Overseas, Survey Says

By Matt Quinn

June 14, 2004 -- The findings of a new government survey came as a surprise to many, revealing that only a small portion of total layoffs...  Read story

Growth in Consumer Prices Looks Certain to Spur Rate Hike

By Matt Quinn

June 15, 2004 -- U.S. consumer prices surged 0.6 percent in May, largely due to soaring energy costs. The report by the Labor Department ...  Read story

Private Companies Make SarbOx Changes

By Matt Quinn

June 21, 2004 -- The Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reform laws that have forced public companies to take a long, hard look at their financial ...  Read story

Small Businesses Boost Employment

By Matt Quinn

June 4, 2004 -- Small businesses continue to make impressive contributions to the improving employment picture, shows a survey by the Nat...  Read story

HMO Rate Increases Expected to Slow in 2005

By Matt Quinn

June 7, 2004 -- The bad news is early projections of 2005 health maintenance organization rate increases show double-digit gains. The good...  Read story

IRS Tax Shelter Deadline Approaches

By Matt Quinn

June 4, 2004 -- During the boom of the late 1990s, thousands of high net-worth individuals used what is known as the "Son of BOSS" tax sh...  Read story