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Crowdfunding using social media to fund your startup

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Jesse Torres and Aaron M. Sanchez Two Men in your Business

Before crowdfunding became the ubiquitous start-up funding mechanism that it is today, most entrepreneurs were limited to reaching out to their friends and family when it came to raising money for a new venture or to grow an existing business. Thanks to the Internet, [Read more]

Saving for child’s college education a wise but hard task for Latino parents

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Saving for college is a hard task for Latino parents

When we arrived to the US in 1990, I was 40 years old and had a career as a college professor which I left behind in Argentina. I knew a college education was the most important step in achieving better paid jobs so I decided to go back to school and work towards a [Read more]

Women pay inequality gap follows them into retirement

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“Equal Pay Day,” is a yearly reminder of how many more days women need to work in order to catch up with men’s earnings. If you are a woman in the workplace, you need to work over 3 more months to earn what your man did last year. Sounds unfair? According to a [Read more]

Your blog a hobby or a business: Action plan to blogging for money

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Are you blogging for money or as a hobby? Let us know how we can help!

Blogging has become an activity for thousands of Millennials and older people looking to make a buck or dreaming to quit their full-time job. However, talking to many bloggers at Hispanicize 2015, I learned that some are still running behind their dream, and [Read more]

Start today your exit strategy to sell your business successfully

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In his book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey said, “Begin with the end in mind.” Covey worked to facilitate the achievement of personal and professional goals through a systematic approach that resulted in the creation of a [Read more]

Understanding how your 401(k) plan protects your children

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It is culturally accepted that Latino children should take care of their aging parents; however, due to the last Great Recession creating high unemployment rates and the escalating cost of higher education, our children are facing already difficult challenges in [Read more]

ACA for small business from ADP and SHCCNJ

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ADP and the Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey (SHCCNJ) have partnered to present “What Small Businesses Need to Know about the Affordable Care Act (ACA),” an online FREE webinar on Thursday January 29, 2015 from 11:00 am to 12:30pm EST. A leading [Read more]

Women business startups apply for seed grant program

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The Women’s Center for Entrepreneurship Corp. is starting its competitive grant program targeting new women business owners in the State of New Jersey. The grant program, funded by The New Jersey State Department, Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, is geared to small [Read more]

The truth about crowdfunding to access capital for small biz

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Many small business owners “in the fringe” are looking at crowdfunding as a way to access capital for their small businesses but not everything is as simple as making your plea online. Posted by Dustin McManus on November 19, 2014 on the Small Business [Read more]

Monica Taher when crisis sets the path to financial freedom

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A scary moment in our lives: who has not had it? But when everything crumbles around you, then it seems hard to see where to start and how to keep it going. An emotional crisis is usually the first step into a series of disasters that can include deep financial [Read more]