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Eight Tips to Help Small Businesses Get Serious About Reaching Connected Consumers

YoungUpstarts

by Annie Tsai, author of ” The Small Business Online Marketing Handbook: Converting Online Conversations to Offline Sales “ Are your customers “connected consumers”? Many small business owners don’t think so. As a result, small businesses don’t maintain a healthy online presence.

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What Small Business Opportunities Does the Future Hold?

Up and Running

If you’re still trying to figure out what business to start, or what industry to start up in, you have so many great small business opportunities to choose from. You could choose to start an already-popular business; o r, you could choose an industry based on experience, or a skill you already have. Image via U.K.

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8 Last Minute Tax Tips For Small And Medium Businesses

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We are just days away from the tax deadline and for small business owners, it’s not just a matter of filing properly, they are also working to make sure they are working all of the tax codes to their advantages. However, there are some simple and timely tips that can help out any small business owner in this tax-time crunch!

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How to Get Funding for a Business

Up and Running

For example, many ongoing businesses have access to standard business loans from a traditional bank that would not be available to startups. Also, high-tech high-growth startups have access to investment funding that would not be available to stable, established businesses that show only slow growth.

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[Singapore] Microsoft Wants To Modernize Your Small Business With Get2Modern Contest

YoungUpstarts

If you’re a small business achingly stuck with an outdated IT infrastructure that’s hindering your opportunities for growth, you may be in luck. Events & Happenings contest hardware Microsoft small business software' The Get2Modern SME IT Makeover Contest ends on 15 June 2013.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industry With The Most Optimist Future

Hearpreneur

#11- Digital marketing has opened many doors for businesses. Digital marketing : It's used everywhere and by everyone, whether you belong to pharmaceutical, real estate or cyber security , etc. Digital marketing lets businesses connect with their potential consumers, eliminating the barriers of space, time, and location.

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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

The 1st round of five projects – MyUSA (formerly known as MyGov), RFP-EZ, Blue Button, Better Than Cash, and Open Data Initiatives – launched in August 2012 with 18 inaugural Fellows. In particular, small businesses and exporters have a fundamental problem navigating the Federal Government’s myriad resources.