Posts Tagged ‘Small Biz’

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There are probably a million websites on the web that tout solutions for marketing and promoting your business online. When you are getting started it can be very difficult to know who the true professionals are and it can take months to figure out where the high quality information is located.

Below are five great sites I recently found on Small Biz Survival that will help you figure out the small biz social media that often leaves us frustrated.

• Copy Blogger.
• Duct Tape Marketing.
• Chris Brogan.
• Pro Blogger.
• Seth Godin.

These sites offer an understandable point of view and explanation on all types of small biz social media that you could ever need information on.

From Business Opportunities Weblog.

Reporter-News:

On a warm Wednesday morning, David Dantzler pulls out a couple of pages of meticulously written charts that detail just how many eggs his 36 chickens have produced.

For about nine months now, David, 13, has commanded the clucking crowd, selling their eggs as part of his own in-home business.

Later, as he reaches in to extract one of the brown-speckled bundles from beneath one of his flock in the gloom of the family’s chicken house, where the birds are tucked in safely at night, he displays his still-warm prize proudly.

So far, he hasn’t become rich. Expenses — about $50 a month — often eat into his profits. The family also keeps about two dozen of the eggs a week for themselves.

But even if his venture hasn’t turned to pure gold (at $3 a dozen), he said he’s having fun working with, and learning about, the animals under his care.

And the 13-year-old has had to learn plenty of grown-up lessons about running a small business — supply and demand, the effects of the seasonal demand and production, and just how much a hungry brood of hens can eat.

Photo by Reporter-News.

From Business Opportunities Weblog.

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I recently came across an article located on Business Week that may give some small business owners peace of mind and a new sense of hope for their businesses future. Everything that has a beginning must have an end, this is even true for depressions and recessions, and we may be looking at a turning point in small business credit.

A recent survey showed that one bank out of the 55 that were surveyed had stated they were easing up on the standards for small business credit. Now, I know many people are going “wow, one bank out of 55″, but the thing to remember is that it’s a start! Someone has to be the first one to make the move on easing the standards and soon others will follow suite.

The studies before this one were showing no sign of banks easing up on their credit standards, so even just one bank shows signs of easing their credit standards it is considered to be a very good sign and a positive step towards the right direction for small businesses.

On the whole, the survey shows that we may be approaching a turning point where credit standards for small business borrowers level off and begin to ease. But for now, many more banks are still raising credit standards than easing them, albeit not as severely as over the last year.

From Business Opportunities Weblog.