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3 Creative Health Insurance Plans for Small Businesses

Owning a small business or pursuing your entrepreneurial dreams is full of benefits. However, the one issue that small businesses, freelancers, and entrepreneurs often struggle with is health insurance. Here are some facts about Americans who lack health insurance:

- 3.5 million uninsured people work full time and earn over $75,000 a year

- 60% of people without health insurance are people that have full time jobs

- 18% feel of people say they don’t have health insurance because they feel they are “invincible”

- Those that don’t feel invincible worry that a medical emergency could destroy their financial future.

After trying a quote or two online and becoming disheartened by the cost of individual health insurance plans, many small business owners and entrepreneurs manage their health care by “hoping” that they won’t get sick. While hoping for good health may help for a while, it’s not a permanent solution and one that is constantly weighing on the mind of the uninsured.

However, there are more options for individual and small business group health care than many people realize. In this article, we’ll discuss three creative health insurance plans for the small business owner:

Group Plans

Many people don’t realize this, but a business run by a solo entrepreneur can quality for a group health plan in many states! The advantage of a group health care plan is that it is often more affordable than an individual plan. When your business offers a group health care plan it’s an attractive incentive for employees to join your company so that you can attract top talent and grow your business as needed. In some states it is even possible to cover contracted 1099 employees with a group health care plan.

Health Care Spending Accounts (HSA’s)

Many people have never heard of a Health Care Spending Account. Those who have heard of HSA’s are often under the impression that Health Care Spending Accounts are only an option for wealthy and healthy- but this is not the case!

A Healthcare Spending Account provides a tax free place to keep money that will be used for qualified medical expenses for you and your family. By making voluntary, tax free contributions to your HSA, you have money on hand to pay for medical expenditures that is tax-free upon withdrawal. Because of tax savings, you are likely pay less with an HSA than with a traditional individual health care plan.

Benefits Carving

In some states, you can ‘carve out’ benefits from a standard health care package as a way to lower monthly premiums. There may be feature of a standard health care package that you don’t need and therefore may not need to pay a premium for. For example, you may want to build a plan that allows you 2 doctor visits per year for a low co-pay and agree to pay the full amount for any visits beyond your allotted amount. Any number of creative mix and match options are available to arrive at a premium that is right for you.

Affordable Health Care is a Reality with a Creative Plan

Health insurance agents who understand health care plans inside and out can help you find a plan that meets your needs and price range. By getting quotes yourself online, you may be missing out on ways to cut down costs.

Jobs

I know that government does not create jobs, and that it is small business owners who will bring this economy back. My wife, Brenda, and I have run a small business for over 20 years, and have employed over 20 individuals during that time. I understand that our government needs to get off the backs of small business owners, and allow the entrepreneurs of this country to create jobs and grow the economy.

Have You Heard About the Small Business Bailout Program

The Small Business Bailout Program

The Entrepreneurial Bailout

Most small business owners are accustomed to hard work, sacrifices, ingenuity, and last but not least building loyal repeat customers to survive. To make it during tough economics times entrepreneurs will need to continue to rely on their creativity to attract new customers, and keep their current customers returning.  Entrepreneurs can not afford to hold their breathe waiting for the government help.

“Entrepreneurs can not afford to hold their breathe waiting for the government help”

Create Your Own Bailout Plan

If you own a business that is reliant on local customers (the majority of your sales are to people that live or work within 10 miles of your location), then you must carefully use any precious financial resources you have to let your current customers know you appreciate them, identify new prospects and implement a plan that will enable you to:

Identify New Customers

Communicate Effectively

Track Dollars Spent

Build Ongoing Relationships

Fortunately today the small business owner has tools that where not available in times past. Technology has made it affordable, and realistic for the small business owner to identify, target, track, and build an on going relationship with it’s primary customer demographic. The Internet can play a big part in helping small businesses connect with their target customers. It’s affordable, used by millions of people everyday to locate information on goods and services, inherently trackable and produces important measurable data.

The Magic Pill

The Internet alone is not the magic pill for the problems ailing small business. I believe the Internet can make any marketing dollars spent more effective and valuable in many ways. The cost of having a proper web presences can be less than the cost of a years supply of business cards. The information that can be delivered and received online is drastically less expensive, can be extremely more informative, and may ultimately reach more people than a television ad or print campaign alone.

How to Multiply Your Money

If you combine the right Internet strategy with your other marketing efforts it can multiply the effectiveness of your campaign many times over. When you use the wrong Internet strategy or no strategy at all the Internet will be just as in-effective as any other misguided marketing. 

When someone can view your print or television advertisement, and then go to your website, voluntarily give you permission to start a relationship with them, view a video on your products, services, special offers at their leisure, and then help you market to others by sending information to family, friends and co-workers and have them to perhaps do the same that’s when your marketing efforts and dollars start to really multiply your return on investment.

How to start your own business

Here are a few tips on starting your own business based on my experience as a start up entrepreneur.

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Tips in starting a small business printing venture

With the digital age in full bloom, many business ventures have opened up for entrepreneurs that wish to start their own business by taking advantage of the internet’s immense popularity. As most businesses now earn more from using the internet either through blogs or through other strategies now would be a great time to start on a simple business such as business printing.

Entrepreneurs can start easily with printing because there are only a few requirements needed production-wise. It can also be considered easy because marketing through the Internet is so easy. These individuals have it easy also because of the massive support online printing giants give to small business services. Online printing giants such as UPrinting.com has setup several programs to aid business proprietors in gaining more from the printing business such as their Affiliate Program and their Resellers Program. These businessmen can earn more by subscribing to the company’s website and help in either promoting the website or by taking advantage of the various discount prices available solely for small business printers.

By simply marketing or being visible over the internet, Entrepreneurs can also earn more. Advertising more about the services offered can go a long way. By showing the quality of the prints online can persuade customers searching the internet for great deals can be made aware of the business. Blogging can also be used as a medium to reach more audiences and potential customers. Attracting more traffic can help not only the small business but also the larger business. Establishing new friends and contacts over the Internet can also help in ensuring a profitable business. The contacts made could prove usual not only getting additional insights in the business venture but also in creating new contacts for the business.

Creating a great network goes a long way in ensuring that the business prospers and additional clients can be obtained. It would be safe to say that small online printing businesses not having the power of the internet and the support of a stable larger online printers are sorely missing a lot.

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