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Dress for Success is a long established personal marketing and sales guideline. Dress for Success is also the name of a very successful book by John Molloy. How to Dress for Success for Less is the title of a new dress for success training video offered by Men’s Wearhouse.

For a limited time, Mens Wearhouse is offering free Dress for Success DVDs. Men’s Wearhouse describes the video as (more…)

My friend, Timothy Lee, at Land of Opportunity small business blog is posting information on small business grants each week. Here’s Timothy’s latest post:

“Matthew Lesko’s small business grants commercial appears on Little Rock cable with regular frequency. A recent visitor to the Land of Opportunity had been searching on Google for “Arkansas small business grants.” Backtracking from my statistics, I discovered a link to “Matthew Lesko Arkansas State Small Business Grants,” just below the link to the Land of Opportunity. Mr Lesko’s link and corresponding page were laced with keywords like: Free Business Government Grants, Free Government Business Money, and Woman Business Grants.

As Mr. Lesko claims there are 60 grants available within Arkansas, I had the idea for weekly series of posts on grants. This week we present the first two grants programs for child care businesses: (more…)

Betsy Martin, Research Specialist at the Arkansas SBDC, announced recently that she had acquired three new books with demographic data on Arkansas. What follows is a mini-compendium of FREE demographic sources for small businesses.

Books. The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a compendium of all the offical government statistics that you find scattered about the .gov domain. In addition to the ASBDC Research Center, you’ll find this book of statistical treasure in all federal repository libraries and probably your own local library on the reference shelf. (more…)

Patrick O’Rourke, a CPA in Washington DC, has posted a list of Safest & Riskiest Small Businesses on his BizStats.com website. Patrick compares relative percentages of profitable and loss for businesses in a given industry. A high percentage of profitability is defined as “safe.”

“Surveyors (# 1) came out on top for the second year in a row … while hunters & trappers came in dead (no pun intended) last. (more…)

Gov. Mike Huckabee has announced that any contributions made this month for tsunami relief efforts may be claimed on state tax returns filed this year for tax year 2004. Huckabee held a news conference at the state Capitol to announce a program known as ATTIC — Arkansas Tsunami Tax Incentive Credit. (more…)