Category Archives: Business Services

Sponsor Callout: Corporate Leadership and Sustainability Summit (CLASS)

September 29, 2008 – 8:24 am

The first annual Corporate Leadership and Sustainability Summit (CLASS) will be held October 23rd and 24th, 2008 at the Hagerty Center in Traverse City. The summit is sponsored by The Utopia Foundation, the Traverse City Area Chamber of Commerce and Northwestern Michigan College. It’s designed to provide for-profit and non-profit business leaders, managers and social [...]

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Creative Cities Summit 2.0 in Detroit

September 24, 2008 – 6:11 am

.cadillac buildings-detroit. by tEdGuY49 ® Note: they have a special “no frills” registration for $100 – amazing deal! Detroit will host the Creative Cities Summit 2.0 (CCS2) on October 12-15, 2008 at the Renaissance Center. CCS2 is an interdisciplinary conference on the economic, social, cultural and environmental aspects of what makes great cities. I could [...]

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Michigan’s Small Business Advocate … and cider

September 18, 2008 – 8:11 am

cider by yodraws Crain’s Detroit has a neat “Small Talk” series of videos. One of these is a Q&A with Michigan’s Small Business Advocate, Chris Holman. His job is to connect small businesses with services and programs. I had no idea there was even such a position (Chris’s page can be found at michigan.org). Chris [...]

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Service Tax repeal appears certain

December 1, 2007 – 12:49 pm

Capitol, Landing MI by Irina Vasiliu Below you’ll find a news release from Governor Granholm regarding an agreement to add a 21.9% surcharge to the new Michigan Business Tax to replace the 6% Michigan Service Tax. The Detroit Free Press and Detroit News have details on the agreement as well. Share this:

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The Eleven Seconds to Midnight Gang rides again

November 30, 2007 – 9:08 am

Carousel by jnhkrawczyk “We’ve got a shift starting in 36 hours that we’ve got to charge 6% more on … and I don’t know how to do it.” -John Evans, president of Evans Distribution Welcome to Michigan, where we somehow seem to be stuck in the Reality TV version of Groundhog Day: Your Government inAction. [...]

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Five things you need to know for Tuesday, November 27, 2007

November 27, 2007 – 10:09 am

They said it: Dana Johnson, chief economist for used-to-be-Detroit-based Comerica Bank in forecasting modest 1-2% growth for Michigan’s economy in 2008. We’ll finally have the sense, after four years of a downturn, we’re on a rise again. Roy Williams, on the I don’t want it, you take it NFC playoff race: Yeah, we’re in this [...]

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Absolute Michigan at TC Business Expo

November 5, 2007 – 8:45 am

Grand Traverse Resort by danperry.com Hey there, if you happen to be in the Traverse City area tomorrow (Tuesday, Nov 6) Absolute Michigan will be in the “Tech City” area for the Traverse City Chamber of Commerce Business & Technology Expo from 9 – 5 at the Grand Traverse Resort. We’re be giving away a [...]

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Five things you need to know for Thursday, October 18, 2007

October 18, 2007 – 10:24 am

Welcome to the “We don’t need costumes to scare you, we’re politicians” edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan. Legislation to Repeal Service Tax Introduced The Freep reports that although the ink is barely dry on the package that averted a governmental shutdown, legislation was introduced yesterday in the Senate to repeal [...]

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6% of x? Untangling Michigan’s Service Tax

October 11, 2007 – 9:08 am

Half Staff by Apocaplops UPDATE Oct 25: Carol of ArborLaw.com writes: I actually have the entire list of services descriptions covered by the law, on my blog at Arborlaw.com. When the law came out, I cross-referenced the NAICS codes (which are incorporated into the new law specifically by reference) with the section numbers from the [...]

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Blogs We Dig: Michigan Innovators

October 11, 2007 – 8:18 am

Moon Patrol by powerbooktrance Each post at Michigan Innovators is a video podcast interview with innovators who can or have had an impact on Michigan’s economy. Two professors at the College of Business at Eastern Michigan University, Diana Wong and Bud Gibson, started the site with hopes that it would become a “highly visible repository [...]

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