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... is your community

We understand what you need, because we are you.

For more than twenty years we have supported the growth and success of thousands. We are small business owners ourselves. Our aim is simple. “Unite with committed business founders and owners in achieving their highest and best."

We partner with you, to take your business to the next level.

Millions of Dollars In Expansion Capital Developed

Over 20,000 Business Planning, Coaching, Management Sessions Conducted

Hundreds of Successful Business Plans Implemented

Thousands of Employees Successfully Trained and Coached

Our website is a personalized point of access, primarily utilized by our clients, associates and visitors, and is shared openly with all small business owners at large.

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Together, We Are A Driving Influence

~ Founder's Note

Many of us are so busy working in our small businesses we forget to take the time to remember how we got here. As founder of The BusinessResource, a big part of my personal mission, is to remind us all to remember who we are, to acknowledge how far we've come in our businesses, and in our lives. It was only yesterday when typing with carbon paper to make additional copies of a document,was the high tech of the day, or when traveling by Airplane was only for the "rich."

With recent shifts in the economy making many skittish, you may hear folks eluding to the good old days or expressing fear of the future. It is important to note, however, we are a generally a nation of people who look toward the future with great hope, no matter the most recent discouraging circumstances. We have a history of overcoming obstacles, often seemingly insurmountable a the time. And in small business, no matter what is happening in the current marketplace, for most of us, the only choice we have is to go out and make the very best of it.

Yours toward greater success,

Sherryl Dever, Founder & C.E.O.

The Business Resource

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Remember Who We Are

The voice of true freedom

As Part Of The Overall Economy | “How the U.S. Stacks Up” –January 2009 Kiplinger.com article reports; At nearly $14 trillion, the U.S. economy dwarfs every other. It is three times as large as Japan, which ranks second. GDP for China, ranked third, and Germany, in fourth place, each run in the neighborhood of $3.5 trillion a year.”

And it's tops not just overall, but in both services and industrial output. In 2005, U.S. manufacturing output topped $1.7 trillion. In comparison, Japan cranked out $950 billion in manufactured goods and China, about $780 billion. Since then, the U.S. has doubtless lost some of its edge, but it still solidly leads. [end]

As Small Business | According to the U.S. Census Bureau and Small Business Administration, the United States has 27 Million businesses with fewer than 100 employees:

• Small businesses account for 98% of all businesses (with payrolls.)

• In the last five years over 70% of new jobs were created by small businesses

• 27% of all business receipts in the U.S.

• 36% of all jobs are with small businesses – that’s 40 million jobs

• Generating a stunning $6 trillion in revenues

As An Important Part Of History And The Future

Past | The founders of the United States were entrepreneurs and businessmen. They came here in search of a better life, a freer life, free from the interference of a tyrannical form of government, which interfered in free exchange of ideas, expression of religious or spiritual beliefs and commerce. Our heritage as a Nation represent the very principals, through which, small business ownership was made possible. Those principles are linked inextricably to our founding documents in the form of protection of our rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.

Small business ownership in itself may very well be the freest expression of self-reliance and personal responsibility on the planet.

Present | Today, as a group of hard-working citizens, business owners face some important challenges. As shifts are taking place in our economy and culturally, businesses may be portrayed as an enemy to a more utopian society. It is critical that each of us as small business owners, remember who we are. We are in-fact, a powerful force that spawns innovation, generates millions of jobs and trillions toward the economy. And as founders of small businesses, striking out on our own, not asking permission from anyone, nor needing it, like our Founding Fathers, we are the today’s guardians of liberty.

When a law is before your State or a proposition before your vote, please take the time to make our voice heard. Think about and take action on precedents being set that help or hinder small business practices on any level. Participate in local and State business and legislative affairs that affect your small business. As you take a stand, our voice is heard.

Remember to remember who we are; we are the backbone of a civilization that is the most prosperous, freest society in the world, in the history of mankind.

We need to continue to think, each day, about the part we play, in pursuing life, liberty and happiness, as defined by us. As business owners, we are a driving influence in the U.S. economy and a living part of history.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau U.S.. Small Business Administration. Kiplinger.com

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