In This Issue: Business Services You Need to Succeed How to Prepare Your Business For Any Emergency Six Breakthrough Strategies for Your Business Plus: NASE Members Named Home-Based Business Owners of the Year! Attention NASE Members: We need your business cards! Click here for more information.

	Cover Story Business Services You Need to Succeed By Mary C. Weaver As a group, self-employed professionals thrive on self-reliance. But outsourcing tasks to and consulting with other professionals can boost your productivity as well as profits. Here's how you can find...and take advantage of...a variety of business services that will make your enterprise run more smoothly and efficiently. Read more.
	Features
	How to Prepare Your Business For Any Emergency By Jan Norman Medical emergencies, natural disasters and a host of other unplanned problems can threaten the livelihoods of entrepreneurs. Find out what you should do today to mitigate the impact such events can have on your business. Read more.
	Six Breakthrough Strategies for Your Business By Gary Lockwood Want to increase your income? Get more personal satisfaction from your business? Accomplish long-held goals? These strategies show you how to overcome existing boundaries to move your business and your life to a higher level. Read more.
	Small-Business Owners Profit From NASE Entrepreneurial Connection In April, the NASE Boston Entrepreneurial Connection delivered practical solutions for the real-world challenges small-business owners face. Next, the NASE Entrepreneurial Connection moves to Seattle. Find out how you can participate.
	Columns
	From The President NASE Forms Alliances With Corporate Partners
	ShopTalk Perform a "health check" on your business
	Departments
	TaxTalk Do You Own More Than One Business In The Eyes of The IRS?
	Washington Watch IRS Raises Threshold For Business Meal Receipts, Internet Tax Freedom Again Debated