News on Small Business

Review site Yelp under fire in business' lawsuits

2010-03-19T09:45:19Z

<div id="subtitle">Yelp under fire as local businesses allege it manipulates reviews for ad sales</div><div><p>Yelp, one of the most popular Web sites that let people post opinions about restaurants, shops and local services, is being sued by several small businesses that claim they've been pressured to advertise on the site in exchange for getting negative reviews squashed.</p><p>Yelp denies the claims, but ...

POLITICAL NEWBIE COULD SPLIT GOP

2010-03-19T02:15:42Z

<div id="subtitle">Tea Party candidate Ashjian insists heÕs not a plant for Reid campaign, has confidence to overcome business troubles</div><div><p> One thing has become clear in the days since the mostly obscure political upstart Jon Scott Ashjian became a candidate for U.S. Senate: Hes no stooge of Sen. Harry Reid. Republicans are fearful Ashjian, running on the...

Obama signs jobs bill as health care intrudes

2010-03-18T15:01:10Z

<div id="subtitle">Obama signs jobs bill as health care fight looms, says small-business owners will benefit</div><div><p>President Barack Obama has said he wants to focus laser-like on the public's top concern: jobs. But the ongoing effort to remake the nation's health care system keeps getting in the way.</p><p>The White House held a ceremony...

Obama signs jobs bill, says more must be done

2010-03-18T09:00:29Z

<div id="subtitle">Obama signs jobs bill, says small-business owners especially will benefit</div><div><p>President Barack Obama has signed into law a package of tax breaks and spending designed to give the nation a jobs boost.</p><p>In a sunny Rose Garden ceremony, Obama said the legislation will help the private sector start hiring again.</p><p>It is the first of several jobs measures promis...

Senate OKs jobs bill for Obama's signature

2010-03-17T15:45:56Z

<div id="subtitle">Senate OKs final passage of legislation giving businesses more incentives to hire the jobless</div><div><p>Companies that hire unemployed workers will get a temporary payroll tax holiday under a bill that easily won congressional approval Wednesday in what Democrats hope is just the first of several election-year measures aimed at boosting hiring.</p><p>The 68-29 bipar...

How to Curb the Problem Locks

2010-03-16T20:11:20Z

According to Shanghai quality supervision department news, Yangpu District, Shanghai Bureau of Quality Supervision of spot checks on 14 types of locks, there are 11 kinds of failure. Check the most recent years of quality supervision and the business sector lock released the results of sampling more astounding: the quality of locks for sev...

How to Explode Your Sales by Using Reliable Small Business Web Hosting Services

2010-03-16T13:00:08Z

You would not have an online presence till you have a small website. One of the effective ways of having this simple website is by making use of any of the several small b business web hosting services that are available on the internet today. A reliable small web hosting account is important if such website must give you the kind of success that you desire. There is little or no need of having a website that would be perpetually down. So there is need for you to only host that your small bus...

Gaming, chamber tethering interests

2010-03-16T02:15:57Z

<div id="subtitle">Alliance could demand big changes from Legislature</div><div><p> CARSON CITY — Two of the stateÕs most prominent forces in the Legislature — the largest gaming companies and the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce — are growing more aligned, creating a potentially overwhelming lobby that will add a more conservative b...

Black-owned Businesses: Addressing the ?How To,? When Feeling the ?Why Bother??

2010-03-15T15:17:55Z

With all the discussion about the growth industries including health, IT, education, green technologies, etc. that will lead the country out of its fiscal slump, you do not hear much about Black-owned businesses being a ?growth area,? but it should be.<br><br>The primary reason for the launch of many Black-owned businesses was the ?concrete ceiling? effect within corporate America that drove promising Black executives into the entrepreneurial arena due to limited advancement oppor...

Back to Basics For Commercial Mortgage Loans

2010-03-14T20:00:25Z

The need for small business owners to be prepared for an extremely difficult commercial lending environment is a primary emphasis in this discussion about "getting back to basics" for commercial real estate loans. Because of the recent ineffectiveness that continues to prevail with commercial banking, obtaining commercial mortgage loans can no longer be taken for granted by small businesses. Small business borrowers are increasingly likely to have less resources and leverage than large corpor...

Simple But Effective Small Business SEO Techniques

2010-03-12T17:23:16Z

Small business SEO is an uncommon technique employed by knowledgeable few to drive traffic to their online and offline small business using the vast opportunities provided by the internet. It has been noted that internet spending is just about 20% of offline spending triggered by internet related activities or marketing. This survey was done in the United State of America in 2005 by Technology Review but the question is; is that a glob...

Comparing Affiliate Marketing With a Regular Business

2010-03-12T04:30:05Z

Affiliate marketing is promoting or advertising other peoples products, and is a great way of earning affiliate commissions, the affiliate advertises the product on their website with a banner or some text, when the visitor clicks on the link they are taken to the merchants website, the link has a special code associated with the affiliate and if the visitor decides to purchase then the affiliate will receive a commission, this form of internet business is thriving and growing with some of th...

Common Mistakes in Small Business Internet Marketing That You Can Avoid

2010-03-10T15:53:57Z

Internet marketing for a small business may be easy to handle, you may say, but it is not that much different for internet marketing in a big company. Small businesses can be easily contained and this may be the reason why it is easier to handle internet marketing problems at this scale. Even for small business internet marketing, mistakes cannot be avoided and knowing about them can be a means to prepare for them. This way, you can plan ahead on what to do once they happen and how to best ba...

Business groups launch ad against health care bill

2010-03-09T19:00:21Z

<div id="subtitle">Major business groups to spend millions on ad campaign against Obama health care bill</div><div><p>Major business groups Tuesday announced a multimillion-dollar ad campaign to stop President Barack Obama's health care overhaul as it approaches a make-or-break vote in the House.</p><p>The ad buy, costing between $4 million and $10 million, will start Wednesday on national cable TV outlet...

Solid state: A new state data breach regulation

2010-03-06T04:15:53Z

<div id="subtitle">A new privacy regulation in Massachusetts evokes anxiety for many, but getting in line may prove to be no big deal, reports Greg Masters.</div><div><p>A new privacy regulation in Massachusetts evokes anxiety for many, but getting in line may prove to be no big deal, reports Greg Masters.After a few delays, what has been termed the nation's strictest state data security regulation is set to go int...

ALL BUSINESS: Banks expand small-business loans

2010-03-05T07:45:20Z

<div id="subtitle">ALL BUSINESS: Banks make big promises on small-business loans, but can they deliver?</div><div><p>Banks know what the public wants to hear: They're lending money to the little guys.</p><p>JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s new ad campaign publicizes the bank's plans to lend $10 billion to small businesses this year. Other banks, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged Thursday to back female entrepreneurs, promote small business and modernize customs procedures as part of US efforts to boost Latin American prosperity.</p><p>In a speech to regional foreign ministers in Costa Rica, Clinton said Washington will also...

Session setting the tone for 2011

2010-03-02T02:16:22Z

<div id="subtitle">Carson City lawmakers preparing to tackle bigger revenue shortfall</div><div><p> CARSON CITY As the Nevada Legislature settled on a painful prescription of cuts and fees to solve the states budget crisis, lawmakers were not so subtly laying the foundation for the great tax debate of 2011, when the state will be staring i...

Kirk talks tough on Giannoulias bank troubles

2010-03-01T16:30:07Z

<div id="subtitle">Ill. GOP Senate candidate Kirk calls on Democratic opponent to discuss work at struggling bank</div><div><p>Republican Senate candidate Mark Kirk touted ways to help small businesses on Monday, while talking tough about Democratic opponent Alexi Giannoulias, whose struggling family bank is being closely watched by regulators.</p><...

Summary Box: At odds over small business fund

2010-02-26T15:31:06Z

<div id="subtitle">Summary Box: Administration, lawmakers at odds over $30 billion small-business lending fund</div><div><p>TUSSLE OVER $30 BILLION: That's the amount proposed by President Barack Obama for a new small-business lending fund for banks. But many lawmakers want the $30 billion in federal bailout money sent directly to the federal