By all accounts, Small Business Saturday was a smashing success. Now, in order to kick the American economy into over drive, it's time to convert it from an annual event to a year-long one. That is why we are recommending making 2014 The Year of Small Business. We emphasized the importance of small business in turning the economy around in a blog titled, "Need to Start the Small Business Engines" that we posted early this year. In that blog, we drew upon reports from the Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Small Business Optimism Index which showed small businesses were not creating jobs at the beginning of 2013. We concluded...
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