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Tax day (April 15) is only about a month away, and that means millions of Americans will soon be getting their tax refunds. That’s good news for small business owners, since more spending money in consumers’ pockets means they’ll have more money to spend at your business … right?
Not necessarily. Read More

A full half of small business owners see growth opportunities in the next six months, while 17 percent say they are already seeing that growth.
Only 33 percent say they see no immediately growth opportunities ahead. That’s according to the most recent survey by the National Small Business Associat Read More

With technology that’s constantly evolving, the ways that businesses present themselves online are always changing too. Where businesses once used regular old .com domains and paper business cards, they now have plenty of new options. Read about these updates and more below in this week’s Small Bus Read More

Small business group Independent We Stand (IWS) is running an online contest that began on March 1 to reward the most “deserving” Main Street or downtown district in the U.S. as a way of promoting small business in America.
The idea is simple — consumers and small business owners pick a primary re Read More

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has cracked down on data brokers for allegedly hawking sensitive personal details of unsuspecting consumers to scammers.
In a lawsuit (PDF) against LeapLab filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona in 2014, the FTC charged the data broker with Read More

While doing research, you find the perfect source material but after only one or two articles, a page pops up asking you to subscribe to the magazine in order to read more.
That can be $30 or more and you really don’t have any use for that content beyond this research. Paying that kind of money fe Read More

CoreCommerce, the company set up in 2001 as a one-stop solution for commerce businesses, has been acquired by a group of entrepreneurs and business executives.
Among the group of new investors taking over the platform are :
Michael Thompson, Former SVP, Sales and Marketing at Fleet One;
Peter Ma Read More

When talking about onsite SEO, it’s important to consider every single page of your website. Although your homepage and your blog might need a little bit more attention and may take up most of your time, even the smallest pages can use some optimization, and yes you guessed it, this includes the FA Read More

Every business has intellectual property which has the potential to be extremely valuable.
In simplest terms, intellectual property (often referred to as “IP”) is a type of intangible asset for your business that includes your ideas, inventions, creations and secrets that give you a competitive ad Read More

The credit card reader market is getting more crowded as everyone from banks to online retailers deploy their version of the technology. With so many options, new comers have to differentiate themselves by addressing a particular segment, and delivering all the bells and whistles that are being off Read More