Update on Small Business and Obama Stimulus Session
We’ve got a rescheduled data and time for the Townhall meeting on what the Obama Stimulus plan means for small businesses.
It is tomorrow, Thursday March 12, 2009 at 3 PM Eastern time (Noon, Pacific time).
Raymond Keating, author and chief economist of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, will open the session by discussing the major points affecting small businesses in the stimulus bill.
I will be there along with Kelly Spors, small business columnist at the Wall Street Journal and lead writer for the blog: Independent Street.
To attend, please register at the Intuit Federal Stimulus Bill Web page. At that page you will also find links to online resources to help you understand the federal stimulus bill. This page will be updated with new material as it becomes available.
In case you can’t make it tomorrow, the session will be recorded and you can listen to the recording afterwards. I will update the post here with the information
Here’s a Google calendar reminder, also. 
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Anita:
Is the webinar between 3 – 4 PM? I will attend the webinar, The Power of Personal Branding: Bulletproof Your Business & Supercharge Your Career by Becoming a Rock Star Thought Leader in Your Industry by Larry Genkin at 4 PM.
Hi Martin,
Your event will be longer than Anita’s because it will take them a while to say that title….
Anita, I’m going to have to listen to the recorded version, but i put a reminder in my Gcal. Great tool/button you posted to save the event.
Hi Martin,
Your event will be longer than Anita’s because it will take them a while to say that title….
Anita, I’m going to have to listen to the recorded version, but i put a reminder in my Gcal. Great tool/button you posted to save the event.
Sorry… forgot to say great post – can’t wait to read your next one!
TJ: You are funny!
I have had some trouble to adjust to the change of the time difference!
It is only 5 hours difference now between U.S. Eastern time and European Central Time due to the daylight savings time. The “summer time” starts on March 29 in Sweden.
I will be able to attend both webinars. The stimulus session is starting 8 PM my time and the power of personal branding webinar with Larry Genkin starts at 9 PM my time. If I have “synchronized” my clock in the right way. [Note to self: Phrase from "Mission Impossible" TV series?!
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As a side note: It could be good to have a world clock on webinar pages so international attendees get the right time. I see that Intuit has a feature that you could change the time zone when you click on the link to join the webinar.
When I interviewed Scott Holleran for my podcast show, Prodos in Australia, set up a personal world clock by timeanddate.com. I was 6 hours “ahead” of my guest Scott in CA, and Prodos the producer was 10 hours “ahead” of me. That’s a global world, don’t you think?
I couldn’t figure out the password to get in – but I followed much of it on Twitter and retweeted some of the comments that I thought were most relevant. Anita — you were amazing! Your questions and comments were right on the money!!! I’m so proud!
Ivana,
The password was “pass”, but I couldn’t get in due to some technical issues. My media players were verified but still I didn’t work. I followed the conversation on the Twitter grid and through the hashtag thread.
Now I can’t wait to hear the recorded version!! When will it be ready?
Hi TJ, Can others also access the recorded version?
@Mary Grace
I am listening to it now. I downloaded it, and the WebEx player that you need at this link (which was also in Anita’s original post):
http://bitly.com/pBalx
This takes you directly to the Intuit site where the Townhall took place (powered by WebEx).
Anita did a terrific job of breaking it all down.
The first 15 minutes are from Raymond J. Keating, Chief Economist for the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council.
Hi Anita,
Wow, this ARRA fed stimulus plan is not easy to digest and understand. Some of it makes perfect sense — tax breaks, depreciation, carrybacks, SBA loans, but to your point in the Intuit interview — there’s no money being stuffed into the pockets of small biz owners. Your advice of “get out there and sell” is certainly relevant and timely. If one wasn’t out there selling already, it was clear in the webinar/audio download.
I’m working on a couple of freelance pieces around how some of these funds might trickle down to small biz. For example, in healthcare IT, there is a focus on Electronic Health Records (EHR) and getting private practice physician offices (largely small biz) to adopt these technologies. Do you think that some of these state level funds will move into the hands of private companies that conduct research studies into adoption, or companies that do analysis/assessments to help private practice install the right system, or to the companies that do the installs?
Main point of all that is — will the ARRA provisions in education, energy, healthcare and then to the companies that target or provide to those industries see any funds trickle down to them?
I would love to hear from the Small Business Trends community and professionals who read here about what they might be doing in this regard.
TJ
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