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ADVERTISING TIP
Looking For
Civilized Customers?
BUSINESS TIP
Are you
in a HUB zone?
The HUBZone program is offered by the Small
Business Association and is designed to support
small business growth in underutilized business
zones. If a business qualifies, the goal by the SBA
is to award at least 3% of federal contract dollars
to each business each year.
According to the SBA, to see if your business
qualifies, it must:
3 Be a small business
3 Be at least 51 percent owned and
controlled by U.S. citizens, a Community
Development Corporation, an agricultural
cooperative, a Native Hawaiian
organization, or an Indian tribe
3 Have its principal office located
in a HUBZone
Want more “sophisticated” customers? Not to NPR and I can vouge for my opinion.
generalize, but people who listen to public radio Local public radio stations are a great way to
(local National Public Radio or NPR
advertise your message. Usually found under
stations) or NPR on SiriusXM are
the “Underwriting” category, you can choose to
considered to be of a certain ilk, if
have your ad as part of a local segment. Currently
there are over 1,000 local
you will. That’s not to say sophisticated
listeners do not also
NPR stations, and 27.4 listeners
listen to heavy metal stations
across the nation.
and Howard Stern—don’t
To find your local public
come at me, I interned at
radio station, visit npr.org.
MONEY TIP
Find a penny, get rich
If you’re finding yourself knee-deep in trackers.com: This coin in average condition
change—from your machines or from your will be valued at somewhere around $195,
customers’ vacuumed out vehicles, you might while one in certified mint state (MS+) condition
could bring as much as $21,019 at
want to take a closer look at each coin.
For instance, the quarter pictured
auction. This coin in poor condition
below looks like a regular old piece
is still worth $192.3 more than
of currency. But, think again! This
the intrinsic value from silver
quarter is worth anywhere between
$195 - $21,091.
more valuable to a collector than
content of $2.7, this coin is thus
Yes, that’s right. According to coin-
to a silver bug.
Here are some other coins to look for, according to cointrackers.com:
3 Have at least 35 percent of its
employees live in a HUBZone
You can see if your business, and your employees,
are in a HUBZone by visiting Sba.gov.
Along with the federal financial assistance,
other benefits, according to the sba include:
3 The government limits competition for certain
contracts to businesses in historically
underutilized business zones. It also gives
preferential consideration to those businesses
in full and open competition.
3 Joining the HUBZone program makes your
business eligible to compete for the program’s
set-aside contracts. HUBZone-certified
businesses also get a 10 percent
price evaluation preference in full and open
contract competitions.
3 HUBZone-certified businesses can still
compete for contract awards under other
socio-economic programs.
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Mercury Dime
Year: 1916
Mint Mark: D
Value: This coin in average
condition will be valued at
somewhere around $949,
while one in certified mint
state (MS+) condition could
bring as much as $41,000.
AND NOW
FOR THE
BIG WINNER,
a little nickel, only
five of which were
made, can bring in
mega millions.
Buffalo Nickel
Year: 1924
Mint Mark: S
Value: This coin in average
condition will be valued at
somewhere around $17, while
one in certified mint state
(MS+) condition could bring
as much as $14,000.
Copper Wheat Penny
Year: 1943
Mint Mark: No mint mark
Value: This coin in average
condition will be valued at
somewhere around $60,047,
while one in certified mint state
(MS+) condition could bring as
much as $85,782.
Liberty Head V Nickel
Year: 1913
Mint Mark: No mint mark
Value: This coin in average condition
will be valued at somewhere
around $3,428,950, while one in
certified mint state (MS+) condition
could bring as much as $4,408,650