SmarterSpend Wins Award for Being a TOP Business Blog in Living Smart Category is an article from http://smarterspend.com/?p=720 A collection of great finance spreadsheets for Excel from around the Internet. For business and personal uses, including debt reduction, retirement, financial planning and more.

Free Excel Spreadsheets for Budgeting your Finances is an article from http://smarterspend.com/?p=547 In a decade with two gigantic recessions, many executives were faced with difficult decisions. Some saw their companies through the tough times and into a prosperous future, while others… failed. They fell flat into the ground, face first. From those failures, a few stood out as disasters. Leading healthy corporations, they disappointed investors, shareholders, and [...]

Worst CEOs of the Decade is an article from http://smarterspend.com/?p=537 Many of us have considered opening franchises in the past or are actively looking for one to open. Franchising has been around in the United States since the 1850s and there are currently over 1500 franchise-able brands. Approximately 4% of all businesses in the United States are franchises accounting for billions of dollars of sales every year. [...]

Hottest Franchises to Open in 2010 is an article from http://smarterspend.com/?p=365 Are you a small business owner? This article from Victor Matarasa, MBA is just for you. If you are a small business owner, you have undoubtedly encountered the seemingly difficult challenge of balancing your business obligations with those of home and family. Being committed to both a business and family life forces us to blur [...]

Balance your Life while Expanding your Business is an article from http://smarterspend.com/?p=360 The ongoing financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 will forever change the face of the United States economic ideals. Out of the ashes of double digit unemployment, trillion dollar deficits, and billion dollar corporate bankruptcies will emerge a new America. This America will be different in many ways from the capitalist country that rose to [...]

The Beginning of the End: American Capitalism is an article from http://smarterspend.com/?p=328 The year is 2019, the global recession has ended and the market has witnessed a great shift in consumer spending, buyer habits, and marketing.  Older businesses that did not adapt to this change were swept away in a wave of bankruptcies and buyouts. The larger of the top companies in the world will have revenues [...]

Seven Most Powerful Corporations of the Future is an article from http://smarterspend.com/?p=325 It’s money scraping time for most of us and businesses are no different. Budgets are being cut in almost every company to deal with lack of consumer demand and credit flow. If you have a start up or a small business, you might be a big victim of the present economy. Here are some great [...]

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