Latest Stories for July, 2010
6 Actually-Useful Facebook Apps For SMBs
I know what you’re thinking. The phrase “Facebook applications” makes you break out into a Farmville-induced sweat, but not all Facebook applications were created in a sea of vapid. Some have real business uses and can help small business owners increase their Facebook marketing…
Businesses Turn to TRUSTe’s Highly-Recognized Web Privacy Seal For Online Lead Generation
San Francisco (PRESS RELEASE – July 27, 2010) – TRUSTe, provider of the leading online privacy trustmark, today announced that companies across multiple vertical industries are increasingly adopting its highly-recognized privacy seal for broader usage in online lead generation, customer inquiry…
Small Business News: Getting Things Right
Marketer Mark Brimm hates when gurus tell entrepreneurs and other marketers they’re “doing it wrong.” Though there are certainly right ways and wrong ways to handle almost every facet of business, the fact remains that many small businesses may come up with a great innovative…
Where to Get Sustainability Help for Your Business
As environmental sustainability takes on greater importance in the business world, it’s also getting more complex. Lots of small businesses are looking to conduct life-cycle analysis, recycle more unusual kinds of waste, and install renewable energy.
Yet many business owners simply…
The Ideal Small Business Job Creation Numbers for Politicians
Suppose President Obama is considering different alternatives to stimulate job creation. One focuses on the largest businesses, the other on medium-sized firms, and the third on the smallest companies. Being a smart guy, he wants to see the data before he makes a decision. So he asks his…
Project Rev Contest Winners to Support the Marketing Success of Entrepreneurs Announced
Washington (PRESS RELEASE – July 26, 2010) — The Deluxe Corporation (NYSE: DLX) and SCORE “Counselors to America’s Small Business” announce the winners of Project Rev, a yearlong marketing lab to help small businesses find marketing solutions that work. Each…
Are Major Banks Keeping Their Small Business Lending Promises?
Anita Campbell recently blogged in this space that the government’s efforts to spur small business lending have largely fallen flat. Last year I blogged here about how big banks including Wells Fargo, Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase were pledging to lend more money to small businesses in…
“Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Black Women Over 50″ – Lessons From Achievers
I enjoy reading books that examine how public figures juxtapose personal goals against societal concerns in their behavior. One of my favorites is “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man” by Henry Louis Gates. Its chapters contain separate stories about black men and the personal tolls…
Senate Democrats Fight to Include Credit Relief for Small Businesses
Washington (PRESS RELEASE – July 25, 2010) — United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and Senator George LeMieux, R-Fla., along with Senators Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., Maria…
New Awards, Contests and Competitions for Entrepreneurs
Here’s an updated list of contests, competitions and awards for small businesses, brought to you every other week as a community service by Small Business Trends and Smallbiztechnology.com.
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America’s Best Young Entrepreneurs
Enter by July 26, 2010
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