Sentences with phrase «local small businesses in»

As a backstop, he applied and received a $ 15,000 loan from Whidbey Island Local Lending (WILL), a group that matches local investors with local small businesses in search of funding.

From a local small business in Florida, one of the coolest Tula prints we have ever seen — Master Plan!

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As small businesses claim the Saturday after Black Friday, local restaurants are getting in on the action.

While the discount applies today only with Amazon, small businesses can use Amazon's move to drive business away from local brick and mortar stores as motivation to be creative in their offerings and marketing efforts.

The UK capital hopes to lure talent with its East London «Silicon Roundabout,» (OK, a «roundabout» sounds a bit dinky compared to a whole «valley,» but the area boasts a new Google - sponsored space for start - ups as well as 300 innovative companies) as well as measures to boost the city's start - up scene, including # 75 million in funding for high - tech small and medium businesses from the government's new Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth and the Digital London summit showcasing local tech talent that's due to be held March 13 to 14.

Small businesses should skip the thought leadership pieces in favor of playing up their local roots and focusing on product, personality and people.

High accommodation costs in regional Western Australia have made it unviable for resources companies and small businesses to establish or maintain local workforces, an inquiry into fly - in, fly - out wor

By 2011 the U.S. Senate officially recognized the event and in 2012, an estimated $ 5.5 billion was spent on Small Business Saturday at local businesses around the nation.

Small Businesses Do It Better was a competition winner in StartupNation's 2012 Home - Based 100, and has been highlighted on MSN Money, in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, GeekWire, BizSugar, Business2Community, Target Local, StartupNation, The Shark Tank, Quirky, Edison Awards, Barbara Corcoran's Facebook page, Mark Cuban's Twitter feed, and various other websites.

A review of a U.S. Small Business Administration initiative shows that support provided to entrepreneurs in regional groupings bolstered local economies.

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Icide's is one of several small businesses in the Bay Area that participated in the game, in which Twitter users are asked trivia questions about local companies for the chance to win prizes.

She enjoys writing about marketing and SEO, as well as supporting small businesses in her local community.

Gaia Essentials, her small boutique in Moss Beach, California, is one of several small businesses in the Bay Area that participated in a game in which Twitter users are asked trivia questions about local companies for the chance to win prizes.

Be active in your local government and utilize local small business resources such as your local chapter of S.C.O.R.E.

ERock is the founder and CEO of BizFamous, a consultancy designed to promote large brands and enterprises, and Local Business Rockstar, a company dedicated to empowering small businesses in their markets.

He hopes that Riff Raffs will become dominant in the grooming Industry, and that it grows from a small local business to a much bigger national brand.

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Second, if it really is necessary, when doing business overseas, to engage in practices that wouldn't be allowed back home, are you at least doing what you can to a) minimize the frequency of such violations and b) working, in at least some small way, to improve standards in the local business community?

Bennett said small fish processors will be squeezed out of business with more local job losses to follow in outport communities.

But in today's business environment, small companies have embraced sponsorship of everything from local softball and volleyball teams to festivals, fairs, and park cleanups as an effective means of increasing their visibility in their home community.

A small business will have a much lower budget than a big one, and businesses in different niches will need SEO for different things (e.g., needing local SEO visibility vs. promoting specific ecommerce product pages).

Though many community banks in this program have, controversially, used this money to pay off TARP rather than lend to small business, Hall says the money will help Team Capital make $ 200 million in loans to local small businesses, and it has enabled it to loan out $ 40 million in the past year.

Millions of men and women are carefully building small businesses suited to local markets, working off the radar in regions untouched by big business.

A campaign created by American Express is aimed at getting holiday shoppers out in numbers to our local small businesses spending their gifting dollars.

Produced in partnership with Entrepreneur Media, the two - day HackON invited local small companies to submit their biggest business challenge and let a group of area business and community members help find (or «hack») a feasible solution.

Community colleges are advancing entrepreneurship in their communities by providing access points to support local startups and small businesses.

«I am a small - business owner, and I am in daily contact with everyone in the neighborhood, and I employ you and your kids and your friends, and I support the local organizations and the churches and the synagogues, the police departments and the fire departments,» Sutz says.

From restaurants to plumbers to corner retail stores, local small companies can see a nice increase in business if they receive positive recommendations on popular user - review sites like Yelp.

It's a word that, here, does not so much connote an actual small - business owner as a feeling — an image of the young worker in the 21st - century gig economy who DJs on the weekends and, while almost certainly doing underpaid and entirely precarious labour, has earned the right to work from her local coffee shop in the slouchy drop - shoulder crewneck of her choice.

MSH did just that — discovering that local restaurants and other small businesses didn't really want to become experts in Internet marketing and managing their social - media presence.

In addition to utilizing social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, 30 Lines» Whaling recommends that small businesses introduce their own blogs as a means to pass along content that underscores the company's knowledge and expertise, with an emphasis on local information that directly affects customers.

But Lesko's lists pertain mostly to small business: you'll find information on agencies that give development assistance to expanding companies, economic reports that regional Federal Reserve banks will send you, government surplus - property auctions, whom to ask about overseas selling, how to find financial data on a company or franchisor, where to apply for research grants — in sum, information on the offerings of nearly every federal, state, and local bureaucracy in the country.

But the majority are small businesses in the more traditional sense — small local restaurants, bars, and beauty salons.

There are several ways small businesses can better position themselves to compete in the local market.

Now that it has implemented this suite of tools, the big challenge will be convincing small businesses, like your local carpenter, roofer, or family landscaping outfit, that they need to pay for such a thing in the first place.

That's because Gaia was one of the small businesses in the Bay Area that participated in a game that asked Twitter users trivia questions about local companies.

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Depending on where you live, there's legislation pending that will levy more regulations and taxes on fracking, which in a time of rapidly falling oil prices could significantly hurt local energy companies that provide jobs and work for small businesses.

These days, even small, local businesses deal with different suppliers, customers, and partners in various cities, states, and countries.

Appearing in the top local search engine results is especially important to small brick - and - mortar businesses trying to attract nearby customers, Rand says.

For example, I think we are finally starting to differentiate between local businesses (your local restaurant, coffee shop, bookstore, gas station, movie theater, clothing store, art store, or anything else that sells to your local community) from a startup business (a company that might be small, but is selling to anyone anywhere in the world).

When Congress crafted the Dodd - Frank bill of 2010 to overhaul the financial system it had Wall Street in mind, not the thousands of small and medium banks that help Average Joes across America — and especially in rural areas — pay for a car, a house or a new investment for their local business.

She joined Duke's entrepreneurship club, and started making a unique high - caffeine tea in her dorm room, and selling it to small local businesses.

In Indonesia, Uber's local staff reportedly made a number of small payments to police officers to get them to turn a blind eye to the fact that it was operating a support office for local drivers outside the registered business zones of the capital, Jakarta.

It doesn't matter if you're running a business out of your home, the local Starbucks (free Internet), or an abandoned warehouse, if you have the right tools to reel in a large consumer base, it's not necessarily important how small your business is because it's doing big things.

Smaller non-profit organizations still face significant hurdles in building partnerships with local businesses.

The $ 928 million center was slated to start construction late last year at a 500 - acre site in the Derrydonnell Forest near a small town called Athenry, but groundbreaking was delayed after complaints about the building were filed to the local council, reported Business Insider.

The service is all about highlighting small businesses in a mobile environment, helping connect skilled workers with their demand and driving the local economy.

Considered a coup for employees, the move has small local businesses in the area concerned they can't shoulder the costs.