Latest Stories for April, 2010
Small Business Administration Budget Hearing
Washington (PRESS RELEASE – April 26, 2010) — United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, held a hearing on the Obama Administration’s budget blueprint for the Small Business Administration (SBA). The hearing…
3 Things a Potential Acquirer Wants to Know Before Buying Your Business
Google recently acquired Aardvark, a social media company that lets users tap into the knowledge and experience of their extended network of contacts to get quick answers to specific questions. Let’s say you’re in New York and get a kink in your neck. You could post a question to…
Recent Trends in Self-Employment
This week I am returning to a topic that I have written about several times since the recession began: what’s been happening to self-employment in the down economy and how it compares to the job situation in the rest of the private sector.
Below is a figure I created from the Bureau of Labor…
Microsoft Study Shows SMB Technology Spending on the Rebound
Redmond, Washington (PRESS RELEASE – April 26, 2010) — Microsoft Corp. today released its second annual Microsoft SMB/Partner Insight Report, a study on small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and their technology priorities in the current economy. The study shows that although SMBs remain…
What Would You Ask John Battelle, Founder of Wired?
John Battelle, who is the co-Founder of Wired magazine, author of The Search and now CEO of Federated Media Publishing, is going to be live-interviewed on the Web this Thursday, April 29, 2010 from 4 to 5 PM New York time.
If you’ve ever wanted to ask John a question, here’s your…
26 Webinar Tools for Small Business Owners
When combined with great resources, useful downloads, and soft sell approaches, webinars offer a way to engage prospects and customers at a higher level.
Here are 26 webinar services for you to consider. Most of these define meetings differently from webinars, in both number of participants and…
Ringio Launches New Cloud-Based ‘Rich Calling’ Service for SMBs
San Francisco (PRESS RELEASE – April 25, 2010) — Ringio, a new company founded by a group of long-time SaaS and Telephony Executives, today launched a new service for small and mid-sized businesses that brings them a combination of CRM and telephony functionality that until now has been…
Conferences, Events and Webinars for Entrepreneurs
A bunch of great events coming up, from big conferences to quick webinars. This listing is brought to you every two weeks as a community service by Small Business Trends and Smallbiztechnology.com.
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Sales Kickstart: Small Business Sales webinars
April 2010
Sales Kickstart is a free webinar…
Voluntary Benefits A Competitive Advantage for Small Business
Columbia, S.C. (PRESS RELEASE – April 24, 2010) — Small-business employers think they can’t have the same benefits programs as larger employers. That’s just one of the misconceptions preventing smaller employers from saving money and expanding their benefits programs with…
Read “1% Windfall” and Build a Profitable Small Business
If you were to think of your small business as a human body, then let’s carry the analogy a little further and say that your revenue stream is the bloodstream of your business. It flows through your business “body” and nourishes all the “cells.” I won’t take…
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