The Senate Finance Committee heard testimony from a unified front of the major business groups including SBAM, who described the current system as in crisis. Steve Arwood, deputy director for the Department of Licensing and …
This week, the State Senate passed legislation that would establish a health care exchange as required by the Federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). SBAM and other supporters of the legislation argue that …
Current Coordinates:42°44′49″N 84°24′4″W / 42.74694°NNovember 11, 2011 -This week I decided to blog about one of SBAM’s strategic partners based just across town from SBAM headquarters in Haslett, Michigan: The Meridian Area Business Association (MABA). …
Advice on how you can spend your benefit dollars most efficiently in order to get the best workers. Michael Rogers talks with nationally known benefits expert Gary Kushner of Kushner & Company in Portage about …
Question: I have an employee who has asked me if she can work from home a couple of days a week. I know that this is obviously the trend in business, but I don’t really …
Twenty two of the 54 small and midsize companies selected to receive business development support through the new Pure Michigan Business Connect Economic Gardening Pilot Program being offered by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) …
Listen today at 10 a.m, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Michigan Business Network. We have news about an important legislative issue that small employers need to keep an eye on. Also on today's seminar: Friday Nov. …
Business consultant Tom Borg presents great tips for improving communications with your employees, which leads to better productivity, sales and profits! Click here to listen. Get more great advice and tips on growing your business by …
From the Detroit Free Press: "Recalls are hugely divisive and an expensive diversion of resources that could be better used to help grow and improve our state. That's why we are troubled by the recent …
Get great tips and advice for managing your business and growing your profits. Listen at a time and place convenient for you! Nov. 4: Tips for improving communications with your employees. Business consultant Tom Borg. Nov. 7: Are …
Question: We are in a business that is in a very competitive field and are trying to figure out what we can do to stand out from the crowd. Our budget is limited so what …
(From SBAM’s member-only Focus on Small Business magazine) Creativity is a concept not always associated with beer. However for Short’s Brewing Company headquartered in Bellaire, Michigan, creativity is at the core. “One of the things we …
How MSU's Economic Development Center is working to help small businesses, and the communities in which they are located, be more successful. Listen to this free audio seminar this morning at 10 a.m. on MichiganBusinessNetwork.com. Our Business Next audio …
Gov. Snyder and Huntington Bank today announced that the bank has made more than $800 million in loans to nearly 1,300 small and commercial businesses in the first seven months of a four-year program—almost two …
The Hazardous Waste Generator Accumulation, Storage, and Labeling Requirements webinar is the second in a series of DEQ “Introduction to Hazardous Waste Regulations” webinars designed to help you understand and comply with the hazardous waste …
The Michigan House of Representatives is poised to vote on legislation that will modernize and clarify the Workers Disability Compensation Act. The Act, which governs our state’s complicated workers compensation rules, is 100 years old …
Financial advisor Rich Feight of IAM Financial talks about these key areas and how personal financial discipline will help improve your business bottom line: 1. Budget 2. Keep Housing Expenses low 3. Keep Auto Expenses low 4. Save Automatically 5. Avoid debt Here's how to …