New Jersey


Computer Buying Guides Can Help

Buying a small business computer or word processing system can be confusing. It's difficult to get impartial advice and to get information in a format tha...  Read story

Tax Issues for New Jersey Start-Ups

Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo...  Read story

Firing An Employee Sometimes Backfires

Courts in at least 14 states have limited employers' rights to fire their employees. Some observers see this as additional evidence of the judiciary's gr...  Read story

The Present, and Future, of VoIP

Is it a passing fad or is voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) here to stay? According to recent research, the technology is, and will remain, a viable opt...  Read story

N.J. Businesses Prepare for Sudden Tax Increase

Some retailers fear customers will be scared off by a higher state sales tax.  Read story

New Tools for Cashiers

Nov. 27, 2006 -- Integrated Media Management, a Linden, N.J.-based document-management firm, has unveiled an add-on to its TotaleReceipts...  Read story

Upstarts: Nontraditional Ads

Looking for a new place to stick your marketing message? Try fresh fruit. A look at how several new advertising companies are using new types of ads to reach...  Read story

Detour Insurer Roadblocks

When Mark Moerdler, executive vice-president of MDY Advanced Technologies, in Fair Lawn, N.J., learned that $90,000 worth of computers andequipment had be...  Read story

Employee-Initiated Reviews

Encouraging open communication and motivating employees through employee-initiated reviews.  Read story

Mail

Millennial Moguls Cool, determined, and under 30? I would say so. What an inspiring group of young entrepreneurs [Read story

The Inc. Second 100

The runners-up to the 1981 INC. 100 are more profitable, more productive, and more stable.  Read story

Health Insurance: Exercises in Futility?

Survey of 300 executives: What have you done to control the cost of health care benefits?  Read story

Investors: Banks Failing to Communicate

Financial firms aren't keeping customers in the loop, a survey finds.  Read story

Immigrants Launching More Businesses

A new study finds immigrant-owned businesses generate more than $60 billion every year.  Read story

Stimulus Bill Encourages Broader Unemployment Benefits

Changes to benefit low-wage, women, and part-time workers.  Read story

Guilt-Free Giving

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read story

Let It Snow

When adversity threatened to kill one small business, some corrections put them right back in the running.  Read story

Study: South Dakota Best for Small Firms

South Dakota, Nevada, and Wyoming are the nation's most entrepreneur-friendly states, according to the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council. Read story

New Jersey Procurement Fair

Dec. 27, 2006 -- The New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a procurement fair for small businesses on Jan. 18 in Atlantic City, N....  Read story

Employer Fined for Underpaying Workers

April 3, 2007 -- The owner of a chain of gas stations in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut is being fined $100,000 for paying employe...  Read story

Most Retirees Happy With Late-Life Ventures

Despite the risks to savings, retirees who launch a small business are happy in their new careers, though most are working harder than ever, a new survey ...  Read story

Benchmark: Sales Training Hit List

A chart showing the type of training and percentage of respondents who cited it as "very important" for sales reps.  Read story

South Dakota Tops List of Best States for Small Business

Nov. 1, 2006 -- South Dakota has the best climate for small businesses in the country, according to annual rankings released today by the...  Read story

Small Business Adding More Jobs

Businesses with fewer than 50 employees continue to outpace all larger businesses combined in creating new private-sector jobs, a new report shows. Read story

Choosing Between Objective And Subjective Sales Programs

If you want to design your own computer program to help you with your retail sales, call in your local programmer for a quotation on writing the software....  Read story

A Good Garage Is Hard To Find

Be it ever so humble,there is no place like a garage. One-car or two, attached or detached, shingled or clapboard, the garage houses a panoply of objects ...  Read story

Baby Proof

Company tests a new form of birth control.  Read story

Job Dropouts Drop Back In

Encouraging news on discouraged workers.  Read story

New Software Helps Make Your Printers and Copiers Fuel Efficient

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read story

Top 25 Cities for Doing Business in America

If you're looking for cities large, medium, and small where job growth is robust and economies are strong, head to the ones on this year's Top Cities list. F...  Read story

Hands On: All Together Now

Debra Newton, CEO of Newton Interactive, has created 'idea days' to get her nontechnical employees involved in idea generation.  Read story

Network: September 1992

Network questions and answers.  Read story

Yellow Journalism

The more successful your company, the faster your sales and profits grow . . . and the faster you go out of business? Historic Newspaper Archives In...  Read story

Network: June 1990

Network new queries.  Read story

Network: Reader Responses

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Valuations: Pricing the Business

A CEO and a financial consultant offer tips and advice about third-party valuation and avoiding IRS trouble.  Read story

The End of Ownership

CDs The market for used music is well established. But now anyone with an iPod and a computer can easily buy a CD, make a digital copy, and then ...  Read story

Mail

This month's letters to the editor.  Read story

Ship Shape

It's not just what you say that counts, it's what you don't say. A New Jersey company shipped a 300-pound package and described the contents on the bill ...  Read story

Entrepreneurship Honor Roll *

The U.S. Senate for passing S.881, 90-0. The 40-member House Small Business Committee. The 162 co-sponsors (as of this writing) of H.R. 4326. Read story