Small Business
Lower Risks Equals Lower Business Insurance Premium Rates
Feb 15th
Insurance policy premiums for businesses installed with security systems will be lower when compared to the business that are more associated with risks and liabilities. This is just as a car with an alarm system installed will have low car insurance rates than the other car with no security systems.
Here the reason is quite simple. A business with carefully monitored systems will have less risks than the one… ...>Continue reading
SMB’s Believe Web2.0 is Top Threat to Information Security in 2010 : Webroot survey
Nov 1st
As per the the Webroot survey, IT managers in small and medium-sized organization are believing malware spread through the social networks, web 2.0 applications and also other web-based vectos are the most serious risk to information security in 2010. As per the data of new survey of 803 information technology in United States, United Kingdom and Australia, majority of the respondents about 80 percent of them expressed that… ...>Continue reading
Necessity of Health Care Reform Act to Small Businesses
Oct 13th
The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) analyze and gives a report of the challenges that are faced by the small business firms which are under the current health care system. It also analyzes the impacts of health care reform on small businesses and the employees whom they employ.
Key findings of the report
The health care system in US has imposed heavy taxes on small businesses… ...>Continue reading
Know about SBA Recovery Programs
Oct 5th
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) helped to unlock the small business lending market and also to increase the capital flowing to America’s small businesses by giving $730 million to SBA. As a result of success of these programs, ARRA continued some program throughout May and the SBA also received an additional $305 million because of the success.
Till date, SBA has been implementing programs for… ...>Continue reading
Federal Reserve Exploring Ways to Improve Lending to Small Businesses
Sep 24th
Federal Reserve said that it would hold a forum to explore ways for improving the lending to small businesses.
New methods are being applied by Congress and White House in order to increase the lending to small businesses.
Unlike the big companies, small businesses only rely on bank loans for expanding their operations and hiring. There is decrease in hiring by small businesses as an impact of tight… ...>Continue reading
Increase in Mobile Display Ads spending by 2015: ABI Report
Sep 21st
As per the ABI report prediction on the next five years, the expenditure on mobile display ads in the US as of now is $313 million, this will increase almost 4 times to $1.2 billion by 2015.
There is much similarity between online banner ads and mobile display ads. It is only one method which is available for aspiring mobile marketers. The other methods for are text messaging… ...>Continue reading
A Very large Percentage of Small Business have little or No Search Options on their websites: ThomsonLocal.com
Aug 26th
According to a study by ThomsonLocal.com along with online analytics gave Analytics SEO to publish a report on the state of British business online, 70 percent of all UK SMEs have little or no Search Engine Optimization on their websites.
The internet provides a very unique opportunity for a small business to improve its brand’s visibility. Still, many UK companies are failing to optimize their… ...>Continue reading
Small business to play significant role to improve US Jobs growth : SBA
Aug 12th
According to SBA, Small businesses will play an important role in the nation’s economic future and to create new jobs. About the small business employment, bank lending, the demographics of business ownership, business starts and closings, and firm and employment change by major industry and firm size details were given by the Office of Advocacy’s Small Business Profile for the United States.
According to Susan Walthall… ...>Continue reading