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Katherine Haan is a small business owner with nearly two decades of experience helping other business owners increase their incomes. Katherine Haan is a small business owner with nearly two decades of ...

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Jennifer Simonson is a business journalist with a decade of experience covering entrepreneurship and small business. Drawing on her background as a founder of multiple startups, she writes for Forbes ...