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Several stores have shut their doors and many small proprietors are trying to bail out.
FORBES: Thanks For the Memories
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Targeting niches was one strategy that helped small proprietors like Kim survive in a world increasingly dominated by big chains like Blockbuster, Hollywood Video and Movie Gallery.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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Most of the rest are owned by small proprietors who are squeezed on all sides: by faltering tobacco sales, by 24-hour supermarket and drug store competition and, of course, by Wal-Mart.
FORBES: Smokes And Sandwiches
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Sole proprietors and small business people of the world can have it all.
FORBES: Small Business People Don't Automatically Get a Pass on Dressing for Success
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Their latest figures show that 73.2 percent of small businesses are sole proprietors and 52 percent are home-based businesses.
FORBES: The Government Definition of Small Business is B.S.
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Microlending--disbursing working capital in tiny doses to small businesses and sole proprietors--is now all the rage at the World Bank and other antipoverty agencies.
FORBES: Waking Dead Capital
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Microlending--disbursing working capital in tiny doses to small businesses and solo proprietors--is now all the rage at the World Bank and other antipoverty agencies.
FORBES: Waking Dead Capital
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Just as homebuilders uses fancy signs, flags, elaborate ads and model home decorating to further its brand and appeal to as many buyers as possible, sole proprietors and small business people wear their brands on their foreheads, promoting their web sites, posting in social media, talking with their clients and glad-handing at networking events.
FORBES: Airing Political Views May Cause Self-Employed to Lose Hard-Earned Clientele
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Manufacturers and small business groups argue that sole proprietors and individuals who organize their companies as partnerships or S-Corps. would be disproportionately affected because these business owners pay tax at the individual rate.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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That applies to the majority of small businesses, as well as sole proprietors.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Holds News Conference
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Most small business owners are classified as sole proprietors.
FORBES: 4 Last-Minute Tax Tips For Small Business Owners