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Georgia Gives Day is an initiative in the state of Georgia to advocate for the state's nonprofit sector by asking Georgians to pull together to support organizations who support the communities in which we live and work. Click here to visit The Edge Connection's Georgia Gives site and help us champion change today! Your donation helps provides education, resources, and support services for low-to-moderate-income women, minorities, and veterans to help them achieve long-term financial independence through entrepreneurship. Together we can generate systemic and generational change through personal success, economic empowerment, and job creation. 

Our goal this year is to raise $25,000 by November 13, 2014 - Georgia Gives Day!

 We can't do it alone... can we count on you to help us champion change?

Click Here To Visit Georgia Gives and Donate Today! 

End of the year tax saving ideas

With the holidays fast approaching, check out these great holiday tax savings ideas for entrepreneurs.

1. Hire Your Kids: Instead of giving your kids money to buy presents, let them use their own money; money they earned working for the business. Make sure the job is within their ability and documented with a job description
2. Throw a Holiday Party: Throwing a party for team members and clients is tax deductible. This is a great time to say "thank you" for all their hard work.
3. Holiday Travel: You can write off the cost of travel as long as it's legitimately travel for business. If you are combining personal and business travel during the holiday, you can write off a percentage of your trip as a business expense.
4. Professional Education: You can write off the cost of attending seminars and educational opportunities that make you a better business owner.
5. Longevity Award: If you or your employees been at the business for longer than five years, you can reward that loyalty with a gift.
6. Safety Award: Lack of safety can be a major expense to any business. So if you implement a written policy of safety, you can reward employees for meeting these safety requirements as a business expense.
7. Entertaining: You can deduct the cost of tickets for a show or sporting event as long as you use the event as a way to promote your business.

 Don't forget that those business-related books and subscriptions to magazines, newspapers, and trade publications are deductible.  

Run Your Business Like Beyonc�

Beyonc� Knowles-Carter is at the helm of an international brand. She's sold 75 million albums as a solo artist, won 17 Grammys and has an estimated net worth of $350 million. No surprise she secured the top spot on Forbes' 2014 "World's Most Powerful Celebrities" list and made Time's "100 Most Influential People" list in 2013 and 2014.

Add to that dropping an album without any promotion or marketing and Beyonc� proves to possess remarkable social media savvy and business acumen coupled with talent. Her unconventional tactics work: "Beyonc�" sold 828,773 in a three-day period and is iTunes' fastest-selling record of all time.

Beyonc�'s impressive business model is even being studied by students at Harvard Business School. At this point, none of us can afford not to take a lesson from her playbook. We spoke to business, publicity, marketing, branding and organizing experts to find out how to apply Beyonc�'s prowess to your own business.

 10 Single Mom Entrepreneurs Share Their Best Business Advice

Running your own business is no piece of cake. Neither is raising a family. These 10 single moms, all of whom have built successful companies, manage to do both with a mix of intelligence, creativity and sheer determination.

For some of these mompreneurs, starting a business was a means of creating a better life for their kids; for others, the kids themselves inspired the business idea.

All of them have learned critical lessons along the road to success. Check out their top 10 tips and get inspired.