Business > Small BusinessTransportation Costs Drive Small Business Concerns Posted by nick_niesen in Business on October 28th Corey Seager Jersey , 2010
Taking clients out to lunch, delivering goods and performing service duties are what drive entrepreneurs to success. Microbusiness owners and the self-employed depend on transportation to provide their products and services. However, escalating energy costs are making it more difficult to survive and profit as a microbusiness owner.
An online poll from the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) asked members how rising gas prices are affecting their business. Over 70 percent of microbusiness owners agreed that rising gasoline prices are significantly or moderately hurting their businesses. Nearly half (43 percent) of respondents increased prices to compensate for the growing costs of fuel.
"Microbusiness owners often depend on their cars to connect with their consumers or use shipping services to mail products Jackie Robinson Jersey ," says NASE president Robert Hughes. "Most people did not account for such increases in their travel or shipping budgets for the year."
This year, the self-employed will need to revise their budgets to accommodate increasing energy costs. In the meantime, several options to stabilize energy costs are supported by the association members who opted into the survey. Tax subsidies for energy companies to develop new energy-efficient technologies Mike Piazza Jersey , as well as tax credits to drivers who buy cars with fuel-efficient technology, were supported by two-thirds of respondents. Additional drilling in possibly oil-rich areas within and offshore of the U.S. appealed to 67 percent of members who responded to the poll.
The National Association for the Self-Employed is the nation's leading resource for the self-employed and microbusinesses, and brings a broad range of benefits to help entrepreneurs succeed and to drive the continued growth of this vital segment of the American economy.
Relegation-threatened Hamburg confirmed -Sunday that their players came to halftime blows during their latest defeat amid jokes that even Cristiano Ronaldo could not help the Bundesliga strugglers avoid an historic drop.
Their 2-0 home defeat to Wolfsburg on -Saturday left Hamburg 17th in the table and four points from safety with six games left.
They finished with 10 men after Swiss -defender Johan Djourou was sent off late on for a second yellow card against Wolfsburg.
Hamburg's media director confirmed reports that Djourou and midfielder Valon Behrami came to blows in the Hamburg dressing room during the halftime break.
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Hamburg have failed to score in the last 494 minutes of Bundesliga soccer and have -netted just 16 times in their 28 league games this -season Justin Turner Jersey , leading to jokes even Real Madrid goal machine Ronaldo could not save them from relegation.
"My brother said that even Cristiano Ronaldo could come - and he wouldn't be able to help -either," quipped Hamburg's Croatia striker Ivica Olic.
Olic re-joined Hamburg from Wolfsburg in January's winter break, but is still waiting for his first goal since his return.
They are the only team in Germany's top flight to have never been relegated but an historic drop to the second division looks imminent having only stayed up last season only after winning a two-legged playoff.
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"The second-half [against Wolfsburg] had nothing to do with football," fumed Hamburg -defender Heiko Westermann.
"No one helped their teammates and a few players were afraid.
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