
San Mateo, California (PRESS RELEASE – February 17, 2009) – Jivox, the online video advertising service that helps small and medium-sized businesses reach local customers, today announced general availability of Jivox 4.0, the next major release of its popular online video advertising…

The Small Business Experts Network here at Small Business Trends keeps putting out terrific original articles, often on topics off the beaten path. Many of those articles are syndicated over at the OPEN Forum site.
In case you missed these recent articles, let me share them with…

Lafayette, LA (PRESS RELEASE – February 17, 2009) – Bizzuka, Inc, a provider of component-based Web and intranet-based solutions, today announced the creation of a new videos series focused on helping small businesses utilize the Web as a cost-effective marketing channel. The new series…

(PRESS RELEASE – February 17, 2009) – Brothersoft, a leading software download site providing more than 120,000 software programs for free download, announced that they are now powered by Akamai Technologies, a leading content delivery network provider, to enable faster accessibility to…

Bucharest, Romania (PRESS RELEASE – February 16, 2009) – AXIGEN, the professional messaging solution vendor, announces it has joined the Empower for ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) initiative, partnership program designed by Microsoft, worldwide leader in software, services and…

The expanding reach of the Internet and growth of online collaboration tools have all changed small business outsourcing dramatically in the past 3-4 years.
Let us take a look at 10 key trends for using independent contractors for projects and even ongoing staffing needs, and how they shape up…

The Small Business United competition is giving away grants totalling $315,000 to 50 entrepreneurs.
Will you be one of the 50 finalists who gets a grant of $5,000 each, plus other goodies? Or even one of the two final round winners to receive $10,000 and $25,000?
You have until March 23,…

SAN DIEGO (PRESS RELEASE – February 17, 2009) – Large Software, a provider of easy-to-use downloadable consumer software, announced today a price special that will provide customers a discount on the popular PC Tune-UpTM 2.0 software when combined with the purchase of the…

Melbourne, Australia (PRESS RELEASE – February 16, 2009) – Choosing the right business software has historically been a frustrating and time-consuming process for the world’s 50+ million small businesses. But now there is a fresh alternative, with today’s beta launch of…

Elsewhere I have written that the job loss has been worse for entrepreneurs than for others since the recession began. That’s true, but, in the past couple of months, the job situation has appeared to improve among entrepreneurs.
From July through September 2008, entrepreneurs were…