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Below are recent updates on MissouriBusiness.net available from our RSS feed:

• How to avoid burnout and improve time management
  Tips to help business owners and managers avoid burnout and strategies for self-management.
  
  
• Inflation having little effect on tax rates and benefits in 2010
  The IRS announced that federal tax rate brackets and various tax benefits will remain unchanged or change only slightly in 2010 due to inflation.
  
  
• Business Going Green: The neighborhood grocery
  Concerned about food safety, factory farms, and their own environmental footprint, many Missouri consumers are looking to the past for a greener future as small grocery stores pop up in St. Louis, Jefferson City and Columbia.
  
  
• Success story: Longitude Health Inc.
  Dr. Jan Swaney, co-founder and chief medical officer for Columbia-based Longitude Health Inc., has received guidance from the MU SBTDC staff in pursuit of grant funding from the National Institutes of Health via MoTIP.
  
  
• Missouri Business eNews: Nov. 2009
  The November issue of the MissouriBusiness.net newsletter is now online.
  
  
• IRS roundup on recordkeeping
  What kind of records should small business owners keep?
  
  
• Ask a Specialist: Dissolving an LLC
  Four steps to follow to discontinue a Limited Liability Company.
  
  
• SBA news: Online procurement training
  SBA launches online training course on winning federal contracts.
  
  
• Business Going Green: Mizzou's pollution prevention internship program
  MU engineering students help Missouri companies cut costs, prevent pollution
  
  
• Success story: DT Search & Designs LLC
  Bill Junk, president of St. Joseph-based DT Search & Designs LLC, found the knowledge and advice of UMKC-based MO PTAC procurement specialist Donna Leonard to be invaluable in the company's pursuit of government contracts for its military communications system.
  
  
• Increase retail revenues
  10 low cost ideas for window displays
  
  
• Business Going Green
  Kansas City consultant designs to benefit the environment, reduce cost, increase profits.
  
  
• IRS roundup on home office tax deduction
  Five important tips the IRS wants you to know about claiming the home office deduction.
  
  
• SBA releases business procurement scorecard
  Small businesses won record $93.3 billion in federal contracts in FY 08
  
  
• Kauffman Foundation study findings on credit card debt
  Study finds credit card debt weighs on survivability chances of small businesses.
  
  
• Success story: Research & Tractor Technology Inc.
  UMKC SBTDC client Andy DeShon has spent more than 10 years in research and development to perfect a practical and marketable electric-powered lawn tractor.
  
  
• Making lemonade in the current economy
  A review of steps to refine your business marketing plan by following five basic rules.
  
  
• Success story: BRK Electrical Contractors
  Electrical engineer Marion Hayes III founded his business in 2003 in St. Louis. Since then his business has grown from a three-person shop to a workforce of 23 with advice from the business counselors at the St. Louis SBTDC.
  
  
• IRS Roundup
  IRS pinpoints top seven tax tips for new business owners.
  
  
• Success story: InnovaPrep LLC
  A Drexel, Mo. firm is developing technology to aid detection systems for biodefense, medical diagnostics, food and beverage industries.
  
  

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