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I’ve been waiting and watching most of the summer, and I’m excited I can finally announce that the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act (HR 5297) has passed both the House and Senate. The bill now goes to President Obama for his signature, and I fully expect this will become law in a matter of Read More »
I’ve been keeping my eyes and ears open for news about HR 5297 now that Congress is back in session, and have received word that the bill made it through cloture today. The cloture vote passed 61 to 37. This means there’s less than 30 hours left to finish debating it before the final bill Read More »
As you know, I’ve been sending emails and making phone calls over the last several days to drum up support for HR 5297, the small business bill the Senate has been debating for a week now. A friend sent me a message asking some questions that you may also have, so I thought I’d respond Read More »
Trey here. I’m Chris’ second-in-command in the marketing department here at Mercantile. Chris is out of town this week, spending some much-deserved time with his family, so I’ve decided to commandeer the blog while he’s not here. You probably know by now that Chris has a second business, a barbershop franchise called Kennedy’s All-American Barber Read More »
Humbly, my very first “official” job after graduate school in the mid-90s was working as a temp for a few weeks doing “clipping work.” What I mean by “clipping work” is that I was the on-staff clipping “service” for all things of interest to my employer. Full disclosure: I got paid (not terribly well) to Read More »
In case you missed it (and there’s a good chance you did), I was on FOX Business News late Friday afternoon. I found out that I would be on FOX’s Happy Hour show earlier that same day, while I was out of the office at a day-long meeting, so I didn’t have much time to Read More »
So it’s been a little while since I’ve blogged about something political, but it’s kind of hard to overlook what occurred one week ago today in Massachusetts. And no, I’m not going to get politically dogmatic here in today’s post . . . those of you who’ve been reading what I write for a while Read More »
You may have heard by now that President Obama is hosting a “jobs summit” tomorrow in Washington. Of course, I wasn’t invited to attend this pow-wow, but I will be appearing on FOX Business News at 9:15am tomorrow morning to share my thoughts . . . assuming my Orlando neighbor, Tiger Woods, doesn’t decide to Read More »
As a regular reader of all-things-Mercantile, you’ve probably noticed I’ve been busy putting forth countless ideas to help America’s small businesses grow better, smarter, and faster. I’ve been advocating for the most important employer in our economy for several years (the small business owner), but things have really heated up over the last few months. Read More »
If the French Can Do It, Surely We Can Too! (more on that in a minute) Last night, my wife and I took our two young children — ages 6 and 8 — to our “part-time” church (since we spread our visits among three) to hear TV star and faith-filled survivalist, Bear Grylls, speak about Read More »
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