Posts Tagged "Small Business"
Posted by Brian Reed on January 24th, 2012 ~
0 Comments Social media is a huge area of discussion in small business these days as a way to market, network and engage your clients and customers while boosting your brand. Here are tips on building an effective social media platform you may wish to consider.
Tips & Trends
Building a business platform. If 2011 was the year businesses began using social media in earnest, 2012 may be the year of building an effective social media platform to share your ideas and brand. Heres how to do it.
Small busines trends in social media. Michael Stelzner interviews Anita Campbell, founder of Small Business Trends, about what kinds of businesses do best with social media and how to use social media effectively.
Tools & Training
Managing your time online. As a small business owner you need to manage your time. Social media can be an awesome tool for both marketing and collecting information but it can be a huge time sink as well. Here are some tools that help you manage your time on the social Web well.
Small businesses still learning the ropes.
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Tags: Media, Small Business, Social Media
Posted by Sara Lopez on January 23rd, 2012 ~
0 Comments Every small business needs to know where the money went – and is going.
Intuit QuickBooks Pro accounting software
It’s hard to beat their convenience for business people,
These top selling accounting software programs simplify your small business accounting tasks, and provide all the reports and tools you need to effectively use your financial data.
Tags: Accounting Software, Business, Small Business
Posted by Sara Lopez on December 12th, 2011 ~
0 Comments It’s easy enough to forget during this festive time of year, but fiscal year end is little more than two weeks away for many small businesses.
Making your income tax instalment payment today brings the basic tax question back to the forebrain; are you paying more income tax than you should?
If you think the answer is “yes” or just aren’t sure, have a look at these six year end small business tax tips. There’s still time to implement some or all of these before the New Year.
Looking for more tax information?
These collections of articles on the site may have just what you’re looking for:
Tags: Small Business, Tax, Year End
Posted by Admin on September 12th, 2011 ~
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It is a common observation that the people face so many difficulties when purchasing life insurance for small businesses. In fact, they are not sure that there are small companies will survive or not. In this regard, some people fear that if their companies earn profit for them if they will face unexpected situations. Still life insurance may be a greater benefit for you and your business. On the one hand, the life insurance policy ensures the health of your employees and secondly, it also gives various competitive advantages for your small business, so provides various insurance policies competitive ensures the health of your employees and other hand,.
Your personal equipment and furniture such as chairs, desks and tables will be saved from all risk. Read more…
Tags: Small Business
Posted by Brian Reed on August 29th, 2011 ~
0 Comments This past week we announced the Champions and Honorable Mentions in the Small Business Influencer 2011 Awards. You may not yet have seen the award announcement, so I thought Id also share it here.
The Small Business Influencer Awards, for those who dont know, is a recognition of people, organizations and companies with demonstrated commitment to serving North American small businesses.
We live in the age of social media. After all, even the Weather Channel now covers Twitter conversations . So, we thought it was only fitting to integrate a significant social media element into the awards. Here is how the awards worked:
- They started with open nominations. Anybody could nominate those they felt deserved recognition. Many awards charge several hundred or several thousand dollars to enter. However, we charged no fees. We wanted the widest nominations possible not just those who could afford the entrance fee. To und
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Tags: 2011 Awards, Awards, Small Business
Posted by Sara Lopez on August 29th, 2011 ~
0 Comments The list of 2011 Small Business Influencers is out – and I’m on it, which is a great honor.
So today I am taking this space to say “thank you” to all of you that voted for me in the contest, with a especially heartfelt thank you to those of you who took the time to vote for me more than once.
I’d also like to congratulate everyone else on the Champions list, with a special shout out to my About colleagues, Alyssa Gregory (About.com Small Business Information) and Laurel Delaney (About.com Import & Export). I’m obviously in great company!
And I’d also like to congratulate everyone who made the Honorable Mention list of Small Business Influencers.
It’s really incredible to see just how much information and support there is now for small business. It’s a very different (and much improved) scenario than the one that existed eleven years ago when I first started this website.
(Small Business Influencer 2011, produced by Small Business Trends and Small Biz Technology and brought to you by BlackBerry, honors companies, organizations and people who have made a significant impact on the North American small business market.
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Tags: 2011, Business Influencer, Small Business, Small Business Influencer
Posted by Brian Reed on July 16th, 2011 ~
0 Comments Business lending continues to be listed as a key reason small businesses are struggling in the recovering economy. But how true is the assertion? This roundup looks at the latest efforts to correct the situation and at the realities involved. Take a look:
News
Small business loans on the horizon. Six banks are receiving funds from the U.S. Treasury Department aimed at the small business sector. The funding includes $30 billion in small business loans which, it is hoped, will spur yet more small biz lending from smaller banks.
Here is how the funding breaks down. Funding aimed at small businesses and coming from the U.S. Treasury Department will roll out in stages. The first stage will be $123 million aimed at six community banks announced yesterday. The money is part of funding first outlined by President Obama in his 2010 State of the Union Address.
Trends
But small businesses are still struggling to get loans. Despite all the talk of the importance of small businesses to the economy, lending to small businesses has actually decreased, further stalling chances of economic recovery. T
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Tags: Business, Small Business