Latest Stories for July, 2010

 

More Conferences for Growing Small Businesses

This week’s list has some excellent opportunities for growing companies to learn and network over the next few months. This list of small business webinars, events and conferences is brought to you every two weeks as a community service by Small Business Trends and Smallbiztechnology.com.…

Start Your Social Media Tactics with Tips from “Social Media 101″

With the growth in social media, it was inevitable that there would be a corresponding growth in social media books.  With a strong Twitter following (over 141,000 and counting), Chris Brogan, New Media president and longtime blogger, would be a fitting author to weigh in with a social media…

ezPaycheck 2010 Takes Sting Out of Payroll Problems For Small Businesses

(PRESS RELEASE – July 31, 2010) – Many people who start their own successful companies are intelligent, have field experience and an entrepreneur spirit to get things done. However, when it comes to accounting, and in particular payroll software, they often stumble. That’s why…

Small Business News: So You Want To Start A Business

Starting a business need not be scary and you don’t need to be a seasoned entrepreneur to get on the right road to success. In fact, for the most successful entrepreneurs, the key has been simply experimenting to find out what works and then letting the right market find them. Of course,…

Is Your Business World-Cup-Worthy?

After the vuvuzelas have stopped droning and the instant replay returns to settle football disputes, what lessons can we business owners learn from the world’s greatest competition? Small business and soccer are the world’s most popular ways to work and play. What can we learn from playing…

A Simple Guide to Small Business Insurance

Is your small business insured? Are you carrying the right kind of insurance to protect you, your company, your employees and your customers? These are the questions we faced as we were working to launch our company, OfficeDrop. We found that government-mandated insurance such as workers’…

Monkey See, Monkey Do

Wordless cartoons are the hardest to write, in my opinion. And, to be fair, the above cartoon isn’t truly wordless as it relies on labeling the monkey’s desk baskets. (I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that no one on this blog has never used the phrase…

DC Small Businesses Recognized, Celebrated

Washington (PRESS RELEASE – July 30, 2010) - A $100,000 Prize and an inspiring keynote address headlined the 3rd Annual Small Business Awards today sponsored by the Washington, DC Economic Partnership (WDCEP).. Andrew Florance, Founder, Director, President & CEO of CoStar Group, Inc ,…

Small Business News: We Need You

We need you, small business owners and entrepreneurs. To start new businesses and create new jobs. To drag us out of this long recession and into new prosperity with new ideas and new vision. In fact, there are some things we all could do to help so that small business can do what they do best,…

Finalists Announced for Entrepreneur Magazine’s Entrepreneur of 2010 Contest Presented by The UPS Store

Irvine, California (PRESS RELEASE – July 29, 2010) –Today, Entrepreneur magazine announced the five finalists for each of the three categories in the now third-annual Entrepreneur of 2010 contest presented by The UPS Store, the most prestigious award bestowed upon entrepreneurs today.…

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