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Social Media and Search Marketing News
Social media and search marketing are critical to many small businesses these days. This is not just because so many small businesses are located online, but also because social media and search marketing have become such a cost effective and powerful way to build brand identity. Compared to more…
IRS Increases Business Mileage Rate to 55.5 Cents
The Internal Revenue Service announced a midyear increase in the business mileage rate you can claim as a business tax deduction. Effective July 1, 2011, the rate increases to 55.5 cents per mile. This is a 4.5 cent increase. For the first half of 2011, the rate still remains at 51 cents per…
Atlanta Small Business Marketing Firm Releases New Insider’s Guide for Marketing
Atlanta, Georgia (PRESS RELEASE – June 26, 2011) – While the economy is slow to recover, small businesses in Atlanta, may be the bright spot in an overall slumping economy. Leading small business marketing agency Now What? Studio, also based in Atlanta, wholeheartedly agrees.
A recent…
Can Your Customers Live Without You?
Is the recession over? I keep hearing that it is, but I don’t believe it (that’s my issue). But what matters to our businesses is how our customers feel. In and out of recession, they still have needs and wants, and if we meet those desires, then we are still in business.
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Roost Launches Free Social Scorecard For Local Businesses on Facebook
San Francisco, California (PRESS RELEASE – June 26, 2011) – Facebook fans on a local level can often make or break a small business, which is why Roost, a technology company committed to helping small businesses go social, recently unveiled the Roost Local Scorecard which enables SMBs to…
A Summer Full of Contests for Small Companies
This list of contests, competitions and awards for small businesses is brought to you every other week as a community service by Small Business Trends and Smallbiztechnology.com.
We’re getting a great response to the SMB Influencers Awards we recently launched with Smallbiztechnology.com. …
Cbeyond Announces Sponsorship of Womenetics’ Entrepreneurship Event
Atlanta (PRESS RELEASE – June 25, 2011) – Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY), a leading provider of IT and communications services to small businesses, announced its sponsorship of the second annual Womenetics’ symposium for women business owners, “Entrepreneurs 2011: Turning Vision into…
Kindle Book Review: Karmic Management: What Goes Around Comes Around in Your Business and Your Life
Part 3 of a three-part review series: Book Reviewer Vacations With Kindle and Karma
In my last review, I was sharing my experiences with the Kindle while on vacation reading The Diamond Cutter, a heady business book by Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Christy McNally about Michael’s application of…
New DigitalPersona Survey Shows SMBs Consider Disk Encryption a Priority
Redwood City, California (PRESS RELEASE – June 25, 2011) - As data protection mandates become stricter and high profile instances of data loss proliferate in the media, a new survey of more than 360 attendees at Infosecurity Europe 2011 found that two thirds of respondents (67 percent) hold disk…
Hughes Introduces New Flexible Internet Plans for SMBs
Germantown, Maryland (PRESS RELEASE – June 24, 2011) – Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite solutions and services, today introduced new business-grade satellite Internet service plans for small- and mid-sized businesses, offering faster speeds,…
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