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Small business owners are largely seen as the ones who can help to bring us out of the economic crisis.  Women entrepreneurs are an important factor in that group’s success.  A New York non-profit,  Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence, has been contributing to the success of women-owned small businesses for years and now their help may be more important than ever.  They are the group behind the business growth competition, Make Mine a Million $ Business.

With a grand prize of $100,000 and a year’s worth of advertising opportunities, the Make Mine a Million $ Business RACE (M3 RACE) is a competition to inspire women entrepreneurs to reach revenue goals.  It does this by providing personalized business assessment and revenue tracking tools; quick and easy networking; sales, marketing and promotional opportunities; and the chance to win

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Ebay is great for selling things in small quantities, but what do you do when you want to create a real web presence for yourself? There are many options to choose from in creating an online store, but there is only one solution that is super affordable and offers you a ton of services: ProStores.

Packages start at only $29.95 a month. There’s even a 1 month free promotion if you use the link below. Prostores won’t give you a bogus looking location like www.prostores.com/myusername. No, they’ll register a domain, like www.anystorename.com, for free and include all of these other great services:

• Free domain registration
• Unlimited Pages and Categories
• A Shopping Cart and SSL Security
• Integration with Ebay, Paypal, and Major Comparison Shopping Sites

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Forming a business is a great way to add legitimacy to your company. In addition, you’ll likely see many legal tax advantages and limitations of your personal liability.

While the benefits are great, the formation process can seem daunting. Sure, you can cheap out and do it yourself, but you’ll likely be left wondering if things were done properly. To take the guesswork out of the process you can use a formation company. Of the many out there offering this service, BizFilings seems to be the best. Not only have they been doing it for more then a decade, they’ll stand behind you and help you long after the formation is complete. They provide free registered agent service for 6 months with formations.

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