Vote for UsedCardboardBoxes.com!

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Marty Metro has been a friend of ours for a while and we were thrilled when he was nominated for 2009 Green Business of The Year. You can make Marty’s day by voting for him. It’s quick and easy.

a) Visit Green America by clicking here.

b) Choose #10 UsedCardboardBoxes.com (Alphabetically “U” comes last!)

c) Fill in your information. Remember to uncheck the newsletter box if you don’t want Green America’s newsletter.

d) Hit the “Send In Your Vote” button

Marty is a great guy with a great company. Help him out!

Cell Phone Numbers Go Public This Month

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Thanks to Norm MacKenzie for this.

All cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls. You will be charged for these calls.

To prevent this, call the the National Do Not Call List from your cell phone at 888-382-1222. Registering will block calls to your number for five years. You must call from the cell phone number you want to have blocked. You cannot call from a different phone number.

HELP OTHERS BY PASSING THIS ON .. It takes only takes about a minute to register.

Governor’s Office of the Small Business Advocate Releases Study Of Costs of State Regulation To Small Businesses In California

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Study Provides Policy Makers With Tools to Encourage Small Business Growth In California

The Governor’s Office of the Small Business Advocate today released a study of the aggregate cost of state regulation to small businesses in California. The study was commissioned by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006 when he signed Assembly Bill 2330 by Assemblyman Juan Arambula (I-Fresno) and was completed by Sanjay Varshney Ph.D., the Dean of Business Administration at California State University, Sacramento, and Dennis Tootelian Ph.D., Director of the Center for Small Business at the same school.
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We’re Screwed | “New York Post” – Yes Men

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Regardless of how you may feel about global warming, this is a brilliant piece of guerilla marketing. The Yes Men, an environmental activist group, created a false edition of the New York Post and packed it full of information about how global warming will effect New York directly.

They didn’t stop there. They also printed a number of the fake newspapers and delivered them to newsstands.

At last report, the real New York Post wasn’t taking too kindly to the spoof.

Read it here.

The Small Business Advocate for Aug-Sep 2009 | SBA

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The Small Business Economy

Although many positive signs have indicated that the economy is beginning to improve and recover, at the end of 2008 America was experiencing one of the largest quarterly drops in GDP since the Great Depression. … The recession began with plummeting home values, and the construction industry, composed primarily of small businesses, has been the hardest hit.

Also:

Advocacy Interns Expand Summer Staff

Special Insert: Small Business FAQ

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Second Quarter 2009: Small Business and The Economy | SBA

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Trends

Real gross domestic product fell an annualized 1 percent in the second quarter of 2009. While this was the fourth consecutive quarter of declining output, the decline was significantly less than the previous quarter’s 6.4 percent drop, and it may be one of a handful of signs that the worst of the recession may be past. Real consumer spending, which accounts for 70 percent of real GDP, was down 1.2 percent annually, and real exports were off 7 percent. Other declines were more marked: real gross private fixed investment declined an annualized 20.5 percent, and real imports fell 15.1 percent. Measures of manufacturing output were mixed, with industrial production falling and the Institute for Supply Management’s purchasing manager’s index rising. Proprietors’ income fell 5.4 percent on an annualized basis during the quarter, and by 8 percent year to year.
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