Tag: small business
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SBA, NWBC, Microsoft, NAWRB: Small Business Week
National Small Business Week is in full swing and the Small Business Administration (SBA), National Women’s Business Center (NWBC), Microsoft and NAWRB are doing our part to promote and recognize our nation’s small businesses.
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National Small Business Week May 1-7, 2016!
This year’s theme is “Dream Big, Start Small.” The SBA starts the week in the capital awarding outstanding small businesses in Washington, D.C. and hosting events throughout the United States. To view a complete list of the SBA’s Small Business Week events, please click here.
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Informing, Educating and Connecting Small Businesses
By SBA Staff America’s 28 million small businesses create about two out of every three new jobs in the U.S. each year, and more than half of all Americans either own or work for a small business. Small businesses play a key role in the economy and in the nation’s supply chain, and increasingly, they are…
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The Effect of Small Business Saturday
Last Tuesday we wrote about Small Business Saturday (SBS), a campaign launched in 2010 focused on encouraging people to patronize small businesses the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The results from this year’s Small Business Saturday Consumer Insights Survey are in, and they reveal inspiring figures for small businesses and the public’s awareness and support of them.
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Holiday Season for Small Businesses
With the holiday season right around the corner, small business owners around the nation are anticipating an increase in profits and better prospects for 2016. The American Express OPEN Holiday Growth Pulse says that 92 percent of small business owners are expecting holiday sales to match or beat those of 2014.
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2015 OPEN for Government Contract Awards
The American Express OPEN for Government Contracts Awards Program is now accepting applications for 2015. OPEN’s sixth annual awards honor small business owners for their accomplishments in government contracting. Nominations are currently open in the following four categories:
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The Cost of Cyber Attacks
The “2015 Cost of Cyber Crime,” an annual study released today by the Ponemon Institute reports that the cost of cybercrime to companies around the world is increasing rapidly, a rise that is only exacerbated by the sluggish average response time to these cyber attacks.
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Minimum Wage Rise
Just as it is a good time to be an American consumer, it may soon be an increasingly better time to be an American low-income worker.
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SBDC Celebrates 35 Years!
This month marks the 35th anniversary of the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) program, the foremost small business assistance network in the United States. The SBDC program is hosted by educational institutions and state economic development agencies, and is financially supported partly by the United States Congress through the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
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House Democrats Urge CFPB to Create Small Business Loan Reporting Rule
Led by Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-NJ) and Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), 82 House Democrats wrote a letter urging CFPB Director Richard Cordray to restructure the collection of small business lending data in order to help lending institutions better understand the financial needs of these businesses. The letter comes less than two months after…