
A couple of weeks back I raved about Google Alerts and all the different ways that I used them. I mentioned that I use them to track keywords, identify content theft and even to track links coming into a site. I look at Google Alerts as a great multi-purpose tool that can help you track lots of…

Our daily roundup of today’s headlines about small businesses…. Tracking what people are talking about today in the world of small businesses and entrepreneurs.
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Jeff Cornwall. Current Small Business Problems Will Not be Solved Solely by Focusing on Lending, Says Report. The…

Redmond, Washington (PRESS RELEASE – March 1, 2010) — On April 15, 2010, the Social Media 201 Conference will be hosted at Microsoft’s Conference Center in Redmond, Washington. Social Media 201 is designed to help organizations take their social media strategy, tactics, and…

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (PRESS RELEASE – MARCH 1, 2010) – Small businesses are showing signs of an economic rebound. This is the main finding of the just-released Intuit Small Business Employment Index, a new, monthly report that provides unique, near real-time …

Palo Alto, Calif. (PRESS RELEASE – March 1, 2010) - HP today introduced the HP Elite 7100 Business Desktop PC, a high-performance desktop designed for small businesses that require easy set-up, improved security and flexibility.
“Savvy small business owners are choosing the…

Online video. You see it everywhere with billions of videos served (sort of like McDonald’s minus the calories).
With Youtube becoming the second most-used search engine to Google, now has never been a time for small businesses to jump on the incredible opportunity of online video. Here are a…

There’s a good news-bad news story about small business expansion plans in the some recent data from Discover Small Business Watch, a survey of a random sample of 750 small business owners with five or fewer employees. The good news is that things improved in January. The bad news is they…

Chicago, Illinois (PRESS RELEASE – March 1, 2010) — With business owners still seeing their cash flows squeezed by slow paying customers, Bibby Financial Services has compiled five tips that small and medium-sized businesses can use to improve their payment cycles.
“As the…