Apple are the masters at marketing, at hype, and at creating products that, quite simply, ooze sex. Well done to them on this front. Their latest release – the iPhone SDK downloads – has proved Apple’s marketing skills. Within four days of the announce of the apps for iPhone SDK beta more than 100,000 people …
Small business news
- Small Business Marketing Strategies that Work for Tight Budgets - International Business TimesSmall businesses are often forced to find marketing strategies that work for tight budgets. This is especially true for solopreneurs, or one-person small business operations, said Susan Urquhart-Brown, author of “The Accidental Entrepreneur ... […]
- Small Business SEO: Bridging the SMB/Vendor Gap - The Business InsiderI’ve been on both sides of the small business SEO coin. I’ve been an SEO. Having done the intensive SEO work I know the value of good SEO and why it comes at such a premium. SEO is labor-intensive and ever-evolving, but extremely effective when ... […]
- 3 Important Loan Programs for Small Business Owners - ForbesEveryone in the market today knows small businesses are in dire need of capital and loans to finance their historic activity and their growth. It is clear that the biggest drag on the U.S. economy and the small business segment has been the US ... […]
- Nuts and Bolts of Small Business - The Business InsiderAction not words. Business schools are beginning to stress action over a simple well-written business plan in contests m,eant to test young entrepreneurs’ ability to launch a new venture. Obviously, small business owners already know the value of legwork ... […]
- Small Business Employment Slows in January - Yahoo FinanceThe January CBIZ Small Business Employment Index (SBEI), a barometer for hiring trends among companies with 300 or fewer employees, decreased by 2.75 percent during the past month, following an increase of 1.75 percent in December. Today’s ... […]
- Obama Seeks to Extend, Expand Small-Business Tax Breaks - Businessweek(Updates with comment from SBA’s Mills, McConnell spokesman in seventh-10th paragraphs.) Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama sent Congress a package of small business measures today that he said would expand tax relief and unlock ... […]
- Small Business Ideas for Women at Home: Working with Realities - International Business TimesSmall business ideas for women at home are driven by two realities. The first reality is the constraint of obligations at home. Whether by the choice or duty to care for others (e.g. children), most women staying at home do not have very ... […]
- Small Business Exports Edge Up - BusinessweekSmall businesses have increased their share of exports in the two years since President Obama set a goal to double U.S. sales abroad by 2015, according to new federal data. Companies with fewer than 500 employees accounted for 35 percent of exports in the ... […]
- Bill would address small business contracting fraud, force agency rationale for insourcing - The Business JournalA new House bill introduced Thursday would address a slew of issues associated with small business contracting rules, including cracking down on loopholes that enable small business dollars to filter to larger companies and offering small ... […]
- SBA to Honor Small Businesses at National Small Business Week May 20-22 in Washington, D.C. - YAHOO!WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The nation's top entrepreneurs will be honored at the U.S. Small Business Administration's National Small Business Week events May 20-22 in Washington, D.C. A series of award ceremonies, small business ... […]
Monthly Archive: March 2008
Mar
25
Free music downloads with Sony?
Free music downloads really are here to stay. That’s the good news. What is the bad news? There is none. The really, really good news is that free music downloads now have a legal basis and are starting to become accepted by big businesses. Sony’s recent deal with Peter Gabriel’s fledgling Internet outfit We7 to …
Mar
21
New security procedures coming for San Francisco Airport
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today initiated enhanced security procedures for international travelers visiting the U.S. through San Francisco International Airport, the agency announced. Since 2004, non-U.S. citizens arriving at the airport’s International Terminal were subject to photographing and a digital scan of two fingerprints. Today, visitors will have all 10 fingerprints scanned, a …
Mar
15
iPhone=Mobile Device=New Mobile Generation
Mobile technology is just what the name suggest: technology that works while on the move. Previously this attribute was restricted to just basic forms of communication like cellular telephones. While notepad computers are somewhat mobile they have never been considered fully mobile due to the inability to last for over a few hours without recharging. …
Mar
14
SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT/COMMUNITY ROUNDTABLE
SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT/COMMUNITY ROUNDTABLE The Community Roundtable consists of elected representatives from 45 municipalities near SFO. Their monthly meetings are the forum for public discussion about airport noise abatement activities, and the motivating force behind multiple programs. The San Francisco Airport/Community Roundtable, one of the oldest and most respected community-based airport noise mitigation organizations in …
Mar
14
New Job Search center opened by United
Some of the 20,000 workers dropped from United Airlines payroll in the last eighteen months are to be helped to find new employment by the airline which is opening job centers in Chicago and San Francisco. United is teaming up with a Swiss employment agency to open the first center at its Chicago headquarters on …
Mar
09
music downloads soon to pass CD sales?
Legal MP3 downloads are predicted to increase – relative to current downloads – at a rate of some 23% per year over the next five years. The numbers of music downloads conducted unofficially or illegally are unreported but the true figures are likely to surpass the official numbers by many times. What does this mean …