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Twitter For Small Business: Fitting Square Peg In Round Hole
2012-05-10 20:35:00 Twitter. I love it, and combined with Tout it’s a powerful tool. But Twitter’s one main issue has been revenue generation. The problem is Twitter’s basic design is not, for all practical purposes, revenue-generation-friendly. I’m not going to explain why that is, just that it is. But give credit to Twitter for trying to fit (Read More...)
Twitter For Small Business: Fitting Square Peg In Round Hole
2012-05-10 20:35:00 Twitter. I love it, and combined with Tout it’s a powerful tool. But Twitter’s one main issue has been revenue generation. The problem is Twitter’s basic design is not, for all practical purposes, revenue-generation-friendly. I’m not going to explain why that is, just that it is. But give credit to Twitter for trying to fit (Read More...)
SEO Advice for Small Business Owners
2012-05-01 13:00:00 Even small businesses can benefit from a strong SEO program. We live in an online world, and even 50 year old mom-and-pop pizza joints have a basic web presence nowadays, even if it?s just a one page website with their address and phone number. If you are looking to take your small business SEO to ...
What Is the JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups)
2012-04-30 17:00:00 H.R. 3606, Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS) was passed by the House and Senate on March 27, 2012 and signed into law by President Obama on April 5, 2012. While most economists believe the act will have little impact on increased employment, the restrictions and costs faced by private companies seeking to access public ...What Is the JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) is a post from the Money Crashers personal finance blog.
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5/17/12 Presentation @ the Small Business Development Center/Duman Entrepre
2012-04-28 22:51:00 On Thursday, May 17, I?ll be presenting a free seminar for small businesses on How Labor & Employment Law Impacts Small Businesses? Bottom Line. This will be at the Jewish Vocational Services? Illinois SBDC (Small Business Development Center)/Duman Entrepreneurship Center, 3:30PM-5:30PM at 216 West Jackson Blvd., 2nd Floor Training Room, Chicago. Like most of my presentations, this will be an ...
Ecommerce Solution for the Big and Small Business
2012-04-12 00:32:00 Do you have a business? Were you told you needed an ecommerce solution to help your business? Do you need to know how and where to get an ecommerce solution? Perhaps you are not even sure what an ecommerce solution is. For those of you who have asked these questions, an answer has been found. ...
15 Surefire Ways to Increase Revenue in Your Business
2012-04-04 20:10:00 Sales are the single most important activity in which a company can engage. They allow companies to hire people, buy equipment, and manufacture products or deliver services. Without sales, there is no future for a business. The poor economy in recent years has hit small businesses particularly hard. Whether you’re among the affected companies or ...15 Surefire Ways to Increase Revenue in Your Business is a post from the Money Crashers personal finance blog.
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How to Reduce Labor Costs in Your Business
2012-04-03 22:30:00 Salaries and wages are one of the largest costs of every company, and are often the most difficult to control. But changing compensation is touchy for those who are affected, so it is important to handle the changes with compassion, truth, and firmness. One way to do this is to identify your key employees and ...How to Reduce Labor Costs in Your Business is a post from the Money Crashers personal finance blog.
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14 Ways to Reduce Materials & Cost of Goods Sold in Your Business
2012-03-31 16:00:00 Whatever product you or your company makes, the cost of your materials is probably one of your largest expenses, directly affecting profitability. But how do you reduce material costs without impacting the quality of your final product and altering what your customers have come to expect and rely on? Like most effective business cost-cutting measures, ...14 Ways to Reduce Materials & Cost of Goods Sold in Your Business is a post from the Money Crashers personal finance blog.
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Building Your Personal Brand ? Secret to a Successful Career Change
2012-03-30 17:15:00 We often hear the phrase “personal branding” in the mix of marketing lingo. But it’s hardly another prod by marketers to push goods and services in your face. Conversely, personal branding is all about you: who you are as a professional, as a job seeker, perhaps even as an entrepreneur. It’s a powerful tool for ...Building Your Personal Brand – Secret to a Successful Career Change is a post from the Money Crashers personal finance blog.
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Cloud Computing Security: Small Business Data in the Cloud
2012-03-30 04:22:00 Over the last decade many computing tasks that were developed to be performed locally on and office PC have now moved to the cloud such as contact managers, office documents, media editing programs, you name it: if there is a software version, there is probably a cloud-based version, and often for free. Just search for the ...
Social Media Security Tips for Small Business
2012-03-28 03:50:00 Corporations know there are long-term marketing benefits of social media and they also know the security issues with employees continue to be a problem. Many companies restrict internal access. Others prevent employees from discussing or mentioning the company in social media during private time. Follow these social media security tips for small business to prevent security issues: #1 Implement ...
Six New Bills Emerge to Assist Small Businesses
2012-03-22 19:23:00 By: Edward T. DeLisle & Maria L. Panichelli On March 7, 2012, a package comprised of six bills, (H.R. 3850--112th Congress: Government Efficiency through Small Business Contracting Act of 2012 (2012); H.R. 3851--112th Congress: Small Business Advocate Act of 2012 (2012); H.R. 3893--112th Congress: Subcontracting Transparency and Reliability Act of 2012 (2012); H.R. 3980--112th Congress: Small Business Opportunity Act of 2012 (2012); H.R. 4121--112th Congress: Early Stage Small Business Contracting Act of 2012 (2012); H.R. 4118--112th Congress: Small Business Procurement Improvement Act of 2012 (2012)), each designed to increase the number of federal contract opportunities for small businesses, cleared the House of Representatives’ Small Business Committee. The most notable of the bills is the Government Efficiency Through Small Business Contracting Act (H.R. 3850). It would raise the government’s business goals for procurement contracts awarded to small business c...
P2P Security Concerns for Small Business
2012-03-21 00:34:00 Peer to peer file sharing is a great technology used to share data over peer networks. It?s also great software to get hacked. This is the same P2P software that allows users to download pirated music, movies and software. In my own P2P security research, I have uncovered tax returns, student loan applications, credit reports and Social ...
Small Business Tax Scams
2012-03-17 04:14:00 The Internal Revenue Service issued its annual ?Dirty Dozen? ranking of tax scams, reminding taxpayers to use caution during tax season to protect themselves against a wide range of that aren?t necessarily always perpetrated by an outsider trying to scam the business or individual, but sometimes these are inside jobs that put the company in ...
Web Design Prices for Small Business
2012-03-15 12:17:00 Outsource Web Design Prices, Small Business Web Design, Web Design
79th Street Barbecue, One of My Clients, Reviewed as ?Chicago?s Best Takeou
2012-03-13 18:55:00 One of my clients, 79th Street Barbecue, at 7901 S. Wentworth in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood, has been garnering some great press & reviews lately. The restaurant just opened this past October 2011 & serves ribs, rib tips, fish, chicken (jerk chicken too), etc., etc. On 3/7/12, Ted Brunson of WGN TV recently named it “Chicago’s ...
Ecommerce Solution for Big and Small Business
2012-03-01 11:32:00 Ecommerce means doing online business using the web. Ecommerce solution enables the website to provide online shopping services. Online shopping services can be applied to products sale or service sale. Ecommerce sites should possess shopping cart facilities and secure payment gateways to collect payments. Ecommerce can be defined as a process to experiment with the ...
Little Bizzy offers full service website management
2012-02-29 08:32:00 Small business is the pride of the American economy. One tiny little company realizes that named Little Bizzy and they are now offering full-service internet consulting, web hosting, and website management services for a low monthly fee to small businesses in North America. If you are interested in increase your Facebook or Twitter followers, or ...
Shipping Scams Go After Small Business
2012-02-24 11:34:00 A colleague with a small business was cleaning out his warehouse of tools and supplies and decided to list many items on Craigslist. I have lots of experience in this process and I can tell you ?It?s always something?. An application called ?CraigsPro? allows you to go through your items snapping pictures and creates a simple ...
Small Business Internet Marketing Promotion ? Internet Marketing For Small
2012-02-21 11:33:00 Small Business Internet Marketing Promotion Internet Marketing for Small Business – The Basics If you aren’t already familiar with internet marketing for small business, it is important to know just the influence it can have for your business in generating a larger consumer base. The processes involved in web marketing are a bit different than ...
How Does Workers Compensation Insurance Protect Your Small Business
2012-02-17 07:10:00 Whenever you start your own business, you need to prepare for the worst, right? The most cost-effective way is to get your business insured. Lots of business owners choose to purchase full coverage small business insurance to protect their companies, employees and customers. However, this is not enough. To get adequate protection, you will have to ...
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Will Agencies Be Penalized for Missing Their Small Business Goals?
2012-02-01 20:16:00 By: Edward T. DeLisle On January 18, 2012, Representative Bill Owens (D.-N.Y.) introduced a bill entitled, “The Small Business Growth and Federal Accountability Act” (H.R. 3779). The Act is designed to “hold accountable Federal departments and agencies that fail to meet goals relating to the participation of small business concerns.” In order to achieve this goal, the Act goes on to state that “[if] a Federal department of agency does not meet a covered goal with respect to a fiscal year, that department or agency, in the succeeding fiscal year, may not expend for the procurement of goods or services an amount that is greater than 90 percent of the amount expended for the procurement of goods or services…” If enacted, the bill would essentially penalize a federal department or agency by slashing its budget by 10% if that department or agency fails to hit its established small business procurement goals. As it currently stands...
SBA Updates Set-Aside and Protest Procedures for Women-Owned Small Business
2012-01-24 20:19:00 By: Edward T. DeLisle On Thursday, January 12, 2012, the Small Business Administration issued an interim final rule, which alters the protest procedures pertaining to its Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Program. The changes serve two primary functions. First, when the SBA implemented the WOSB program by publishing a final rule in the Federal Register on October 7, 2010, it established set-aside thresholds of $5 million for contracts pertaining to manufacturing and $3 million for all other contracts. As part of the new interim rule, those thresholds have increased to $6.5 million and $4 million, respectively, to account for inflation. Second, the changes ushered in as part of the interim rule, make the protest procedures for the WOSB Program consistent with the SBA’s other set-aside programs. For example, under the procedures that existed before issuance of the interim rule, if a contracting officer received a protest on a WOSB set-aside and, nonetheless wished to ma...
VA's Ambiguous Solicitation Leads to Successful Protest
2012-01-09 21:25:00 By: Edward T. DeLisle Over the last several years, the scrutiny over federal small business programs has grown. That scrutiny has led to changes in policy and legislation designed to curb potential fraud in the procurement process. Because these changes have been implemented in such a short period of time, however, it is not unusual for the government to issue solicitations for small business set-aside contracts that are confusing, or even contradictory. In Commandeer Construction Company, Inc., B-405771, December 29, 2011, that is precisely what occurred resulting in a successful protest. Commandeer Construction involved a solicitation that was set aside for Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs), a program that has experienced much change in recent years. In 2006, the VA was given the authority to restrict competition to SDVOSBs as part of the Veterans Benefits, Health Care, and Information Act (the "Act"). 38 U.S.C. 8127(d). As the GAO explained in...
How to Write & Publish an eBook and Sell It for Profit
2011-12-29 20:10:00 Since bursting onto the market in 2007, digital reading devices have become incredibly popular. The first version of the Amazon Kindle sold out in just over five hours, and late last year, Amazon announced that, for the first time ever, ebook sales surpassed that of paperback books. With the advent of the new Amazon Kindle book ...How to Write & Publish an eBook and Sell It for Profit is a post from the Money Crashers personal finance blog.
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Free Small Business Energy Savings Kit -CO, MN, NM only
2011-12-29 10:50:00 http://business.responsiblebyna-ture.com/small-business-energy--savings-kit -Business name required ?¤This Frėč Stuff Tģmes . C om feed should only be reād in feed readers, on the Frėėstuff Timesėmail list, or the ©FST Google Gadget. Any other use is ©opyright infri ngėment and should be reportėd.©
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6 Business Success Tips from Jane Wurwand, Founder of Dermalogica
2011-12-28 20:05:00 There’s nothing like a great rags-to-riches story, and Jane Wurwand has a remarkable one. She started Dermalogica, a professional skin care company, in 1983 with $1,400. Her goal was to bridge the gap in skin care between salons and at-home users. Dermalogica products are now sold in 28,000 salons and spas in 86 countries. Wurwand’s ...6 Business Success Tips from Jane Wurwand, Founder of Dermalogica is a post from the Money Crashers personal finance blog.
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5 Insurance Tips & Resolutions to Secure Your Small Business
2011-12-26 21:25:00 Eleven years ago, I started a consulting business with one client. In the timespan of just over three years, I expanded into an office with partners and employees, laid everyone off when the economy turned ugly, and ended up working out of my living room before finally calling it quits. During that time, my New ...5 Insurance Tips & Resolutions to Secure Your Small Business is a post from the Money Crashers personal finance blog.
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Small Business Owners! 6 Quick Ways to Help Your Customers Help You
2011-12-19 15:15:00 Sometime last month, my friends and I did what most people do on a Friday night. Yes, we went out to blow off some steam and in the process, popped ...© SEOptimise - Download our free business guide to blogging whitepaper and sign-up for the SEOptimise monthly newsletter. Small Business Owners! 6 Quick Ways to Help Your Customers Help You Related posts: 30 Ways to Use Social Media for Business People 10 New Google Tools, Products and Services Every Business Person Has to Know About A Summary of Major F8 Facebook Updates
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Impact of social media in small business | 7Boats
2011-11-21 22:41:00 Impact of social media in small business | 7Boats Potpourri -A blog on various hot trends over the internet such as art, science, business ideas, make money online, fashion, entertainment, movies, music, fun, comics,travel, health, technology, news, sports, cute babies, career, earn from home,education,love & internet marketing.
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Want to Start a Small Business? Good Idea!!
2011-11-20 06:14:00 Often start up find hard to know where they should begin. I think one can look at what one knows better and is also useful and likely to be salable. Next step is to refine knowledge either by self or by hiring a consultant Finally one need to do some cost and time analysis to see if project is fe
Small Business Tax Questions – How Are LLC’s Taxed?
2011-11-05 15:51:00 Do you own a limited liability company (LLC) and need to know how your income from the business will be taxed? Read on to find out.A limited liability company is the chameleon of business entities. Believe it or not, there is no LLC-specific federal income tax return. But that does not mean your business profit ...
Where To Find Military Small Business Loans
2011-11-03 10:56:00 The small business industry has seen an increase of business owners coming from a military background. Former members of the US Armed Forces and the National Guard are now comprising a significant bloc in the small business sector, primarily because of...
Where To Find Military Small Business Loans
2011-11-03 10:56:00 The small business industry has seen an increase of business owners coming from a military background. Former members of the US Armed Forces and the National Guard are now comprising a significant bloc in the small business sector, primarily because of...
Where To Find Military Small Business Loans
2011-11-03 10:56:00 The small business industry has seen an increase of business owners coming from a military background. Former members of the US Armed Forces and the National Guard are now comprising a significant bloc in the small business sector, primarily because of...
How Can Credit Card Processing Increase Your Small Business Sales?
2011-10-27 10:24:00 Today's customers purchase more goods from merchants who accept credit cards than from merchants who only accept cash or a check. The convenience of swiping a card, earning reward points and receiving theft protection encourage this trend.
New Chuck Krugel Presentation Part of Crain?s Chicago Small Business Week,
2011-09-07 17:33:00 Thanks to Illinois WorkNet of Northern Cook County & Crain’s Chicago Business, I’ll be presenting on social media & legal & HR issues as part of Crain’s Chicago Small Business Week. This will be at IL WorkNet’s Arlington Heights office on Wednesday, October 5, 2011, from 8:30 AM – 11:30 Am, 723 W. Algonquin Rd., AH, ...
From the ?Unresolved Issues? File
2011-08-22 22:22:00 Stock market celebrates the fall of Gaddafi (briefly), oil market begs to differ: The 5 tallies a list of "unresolved issues" affecting markets. Including... Scope of "secret" bank bailouts revealed: White House works overtime to suppress new scandal.
Cutting Up the Credit Card
2011-07-26 23:33:00 The real problem with the city of Vancouver this week. Plus... How Alaska's winters will be even colder than normal, but for one company's goods...
Two Critical Yardsticks for Gold
2011-07-21 21:54:00 Gold hovering at $1,600: Frank Holmes with two ratios that point to still higher prices from here. Plus... "China Flash," Day 2 of the slowdown: Chris Mayer on a spillover effect you want to avoid.
How to Sidestep a New Market Risk
2011-07-20 23:01:00 Addison Wiggin – July 20, 2011 Signs of a slowdown in China: Chris Mayer with a number to watch, and guidance on how to sidestep the damage “Not enough from any source to meet demand”… Byron King with the outlook on the “other” precious metal Patrick Cox names his two favorite transformational technologies of 2011 ...
The Size of the US Bubble
2011-07-12 22:58:00 President says you shouldn't worry about the debt ceiling... three little charts say you should. Plus... "Who would bail out the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve?" and other impertinent questions...
A Slow, Measured Panic
2011-06-27 20:54:00 Gold clings to $1,500: Byron King on why it hasn't sold off more, and Dan Amoss with a new way to play it. Plus... Dow recovers to 12,000: How to make money regardless of its mixed signals.
Praying for a Miracle
2011-06-24 23:01:00 Divine intercession to resolve human folly? City holds prayer vigil to avert municipal bankruptcy. Plus... Paying for government pensions ad infinitum: Five best and worst states for taxpayers.
Flattening the Aging Curve
2011-05-26 21:56:00 Introducing a new word - "nutraceutical," and how one of them could "flatten the aging curve" and mint new millionaires. Plus... Latest Middle East country to blow up just like Egypt, but unlike Egypt could double the oil price.
Chicago Citi Small Business Workshop May 19
2011-05-19 01:15:00 Join us for a Small Business Workshop at CitiHosted by Chicago Community Ventures andJVS/Duman Microenterprise CenterTopics include:Basic Building Blocks and EntrepreneurshipAccess to CapitalBanking and Payroll Services for Small BusinessesResources for EntrepreneursMay 19, 20118:30 am - 12:00 pmCiti Center500 West Madison6th FloorChicago, IllinoisPlease RSVP by May 17th to Veronica Velazquezat veronica.velazquez@citi.com...-
China Imposes ?Severe Punishment?
2011-05-10 22:05:00 Untangling the vagaries of China?s Price Law: "Severe punishment" for obscure offenses. Plus... Dan Amoss on the next trigger for "sharp corrections" in U.S. stocks
Small Business Competitions
2011-05-05 21:35:00 Winning business and industry awards can provide you with a way to set your business apart from the competition, attract new customers and employees while retaining existing ones, and be considered part of the elite category of women who've been designated as remarkable leaders. All too often, however, entrepreneurs fail to do the research and put in the time necessary to create a really great winning entry. Keep reading for a few tips and reminders as well as some awards currently accepting applications:...
Small Business Local SEO Presentation ? LA Web Professionals Group
2011-04-07 01:22:00 Jason Wilson, Director of Search at BlueSEO - a boutique Los Angeles SEO agency - small business local SEO presentation at the LA Web Professionals Group
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