Archive for August, 2010
5 Essential Characteristics for Today’s Marketer
By Tyler Garns, Small Business Trends Today’s world of fast-paced technology advancements and ever-evolving media and marketing techniques requires marketers to be much more versatile than they had to be in the past. No longer are a you going to survive with a degree in [Read More]
Women Business Owners and Venture Capital: What’s the Disconnect?
By Rieva Lesonsky, Small Business Trends I’ve been reading and writing about this issue for so long that I almost can’t believe it’s still an issue—but a plethora of data shows that women business owners are still falling woefully short when it comes to obtaining [Read More]
What Mobile Platform is Right For Your Business?
By Ramon Ray, Smallbiztechnology.com When I talk with small businesses about technology buying decisions, the question of mobile platforms always comes up – with good reason. Companies of all sizes are investing significant resources in deploying mobile applications [Read More]
6 Things Every Business Laptop Must Have
Technology is not just about slick-looking gadgets. When it comes to the systems we use to get our jobs done, it's time we got serious. [Read More]
5 Site Metrics Every Small Business Should Track
By Glen Stansberry, Wise Bread, American Express Open Forum Many small business owners’ eyes glaze over when people start talking about analytics, click through rates, and abandonment funnels. Really, there’s a lot of jargon that goes with measuring a site with [Read More]
Why Amazon, Google and Facebook Will Drive More Online Sales for Businesses
By Chris Crum, WebProNews.com A couple weeks ago, Amazon launched a new feature that lets users tap into their Facebook network. Users can find recommendations from friends, see upcoming birthdays and their friends’ wishlists, find gift ideas based on Facebook [Read More]
SBA’s Live Online Business Chat: Health Care and Small Business
SBA’s Online Business Chat – a live Q&A session with small business experts. Topic: “Health Care and Small Business” Host: John Tuzynski, Chief of Employment Tax, Internal Revenue Service Time: Thursday, August 12, 2010, from 1:00-2:00 p.m. (ET) [Read More]
The Bush tax cuts and small business
Harry Reid says the Senate will consider the Bush tax cuts in September. What will they do about them? Hard to say. The options seem to be to extend most of them or all of them. Few seem to be thinking of substantially changing them, scrapping them or embedding them in a [Read More]
Small business bill appears to be stuck in Senate
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate might leave town this week without finishing up what Democrats had hoped would be a significant political achievement before the August recess: passing a multibillion-dollar swath of programs to help struggling small businesses. On its face, [Read More]
