Latest Stories for June, 2010
House Passes Small Business Capital Bill
Washington (PRESS RELEASE – June 23, 2010) — The U.S. House of Representatives this week passed the “Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF) Act,” H.R. 5297, by a vote of 241-182. The legislation will aid small businesses in securing capital through new community bank…
5 Warnings About So-called Corporate Culture
There’s a lot of good web writing on corporate culture lately. Business Insider has a series by Small Business Trends regular Lisa Barone on corporate culture and innovation. And Tony Hsieh of Zappos set off a wave of blog posts with his post about culture on Inc. There’s some great…
Do SMBs on the Web Get More Sales?
A study posted on eMarketer last week declared Small-Biz Success From Deeper Online Interaction which, in turn, leads to more sales for their businesses. The study was conducted by the American City Business Journals and segmented SMBs into five different groups based on their usage of the Web and…
Landrieu, Kerry Introduce Legislation to Boost Broadband Internet Access for Small Business
Washington (PRESS RELEASE – June 23, 2010) — United States Senators Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and John F. Kerry, D-Mass., introduced legislation to better assist small business owners in accessing broadband Internet…
Small Business News: The Key To Recovery?
As economists and politicians keep worrying about the economy, small business owners keep doing what they have always done, leading and building their businesses in unique ways to meet the changing market and the needs of their clients and customers. But if small businesses are the key to recovery…
BaseKit Launches App To Create Websites From Photoshop Designs, Leading VCs Support
London (PRESS RELEASE – June 22, 2010) – BaseKit, a platform for creating websites from a Photoshop design without coding, is launching in the US and UK today following a Series A round of VC funding from Eden Ventures and NESTA (the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology…
How to Carefully Select a Franchise To Buy: A Review
Are you a rule follower or a rule maker? This is one of the questions Joel Libava, known as The Franchise King, and author of How to Carefully Select a Franchise to Buy, asks in one of his recent videos. The best franchise owners are often rule followers; they prefer the systems and…
How To Save Your Brand On Twitter
It’s not really that uncommon. You head to your favorite social networking site, read what people are saying, and you stumble across that one tweet or status update that makes you wince a little bit. You have a reaction because the content they’re putting out, well, it doesn’t…
Saying Goodbye to Chaos, Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends Switches to Infusionsoft Email Marketing 2.0
Gilbert, Arizona (PRESS RELEASE – June 22, 2010) — Infusionsoft (www.infusionsoft.com), the leader in Email Marketing 2.0, today announced the addition of new customer Small Business Trends, an award-winning online publication for small business owners and entrepreneurs, to the…
Small Business News: Selling Integrity
No matter what product or service your business offers, in the end, you’re selling something else entirely. That happens to be trust in your ability to deliver on promises and to do what you say you will do for your customer or client. Call it whatever you like, what you are marketing is your…
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