Sentences with phrase «more small community»

We would like to continue to create more small community groups.

Not exact matches

With our second location, opened in 2016, we currently create a community for more than 250 entrepreneurs, freelancers and small business owners.

A focus on quality, local products can help a small business succeed as communities are becoming more and more adamant about buying from small, local businesses.

Small businesses are fueling our communities, making them better, stronger, more happy places — all year long.

Secondly, there needs to be more collaboration between colleges and universities and the small business / start - up communities in their area.

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

Halligan, who attended the conference, noted that what differentiates Inc. 500 5000 companies from the rest of the small business community is also something more intangible.

Some have suggested that small community banks may be the first to step up to the plate because the revenue from marijuana businesses would be more significant for them.

And community banks, of which there are more than 6,000 in the United States, depend on new loans to small businesses to make money.

You'd be hard - pressed to find a more divisive issue in the craft beer community than Big Beer's recent shopping spree for small brewers.

In today's climate, small - business loans are more often funded by community banks and credit unions.

«In contrast, Sunderland: much more working class, much smaller university community.

The Dodd - Frank rules also mean community banks — a primary source of small business loans — have had to spend more to comply with the new regulations.

Because of the tight credit market, business plans are being more closely scrutinized than ever and banks are looking for specifics before looking at Small Business Administration - backed loans or community bank loans.

If the first phase of 3D printing was about hulking industrial 3D printers that codified processes, and the second phase of 3D printing was about the hobbyist community using 3D printers, then the third phase, with printers like the Form 2, is about making 3D printing even more accessible by making it simple enough — and making the 3D printers small enough — so that it can go to every place where objects are designed and manufactured.

Eighty - five percent of small - business owners say that the holiday shopping period is just as — or more important than — last year, according to a survey by Manta, an online small - business community.

«Small stores are more focused on the community,» Derring adds.

Instead of just the big, famous causes and their galas, Six Degrees is more focused on people who are in individual, smaller communities, or big cities, who need funding and can use the celebrity status to get noticed.

«Taking a focused look at clarifying the regulatory environment around online lending, reducing some of the burdens of regulation on small and community banks, and reducing the burdens on community banks so they can go back to making more small - dollar loans is a good thing,» she says.

That means, for entrepreneurs, it's now as important to build a solid community and good reputation online as it once was to foster excellent small - town relations when businesses were more likely to have Main Street storefronts and returning locals as customers.

If you're launching your business, or launching a new service or product, hold a small event and invite those you think are more likely to be useful in your community as you grow, those who are on a similar track or have relevance to what you're trying to achieve, and make it somewhere they're likely to want to go.

Some small companies have already begun sampling technology - based services; others will undoubtedly sign on as more options become available at the regional and community - based banks that handle their business.

While the new technology promises to make cash management quicker and more cost - effective, so far it does little to address the small - business community's thorniest financial problem: its lack of access to capital.

The goal should be to cultivate more of a one - on - one or small - community connection with customers and potential customers.

Over three years, community developers and partners such as Banana Republic and MasterCard help establish $ 105 million in small - business loans to create or preserve more than 5,000 jobs.

«Serving diverse communities has long been a focus area and priority for Wells Fargo, yet we know there's more work to be done, and it starts with gaining a deeper understanding of the experiences of diverse small business owners working with financial institutions,» said Lisa Stevens, head of Small Business for Wells Fsmall business owners working with financial institutions,» said Lisa Stevens, head of Small Business for Wells FSmall Business for Wells Fargo.

«Through this increased investment and connections with community lending organizations, we are making meaningful strides toward increasing access to capital for small businesses, as well as helping more business owners get the coaching and educational resources they need to succeed financially long - term.»

[3] This disparity might be attributed to less competition in smaller communities, which usually have to pay more to attract physicians.

The 10,000 Small Businesses program currently operates in 19 markets in the U.S. through a network of more than 100 academic and community partners, and the program continues to expand on a city - by - city basis.

More than 11,000 volunteer business mentors in over 320 chapters serve their communities through entrepreneur education dedicated to the formation, growth and success of small businesses.

«While we are pleased the industry continues growing at faster rates than other sectors of the economy, we could be growing much faster, creating more new jobs and businesses, if Washington addressed the tax, spending and regulatory uncertainty plaguing the small business community in a meaningful way,» said IFA President & CEO Steve Caldeira.

To ensure business owners are aware of and accessing the full range of financing options available to them, Wells Fargo recently established referral relationships with more than 20 nonprofits and other lenders in cities across the country that are participating in the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA) Community Advantage program.

With the online landscape shifting to a much more collaborative and community - based environment, there are opportunities waiting online for the small business owner to get their message out to individuals and groups interested in the expertise, knowledge and competitive value.

Darryl Walker, president of the BCGEU, says his members are worried and want more money to go into public projects and smaller communities.

Find yourself craving more time to focus on what makes your soul happy rather than community building and small - talk?

Maria, however, blew out windows at some hospitals and police stations, turned some streets into roaring rivers and destroyed hundreds of homes across Puerto Rico, including 80 percent of houses in a small fishing community near the San Juan Bay, which unleashed a storm surge of more than 4 feet.

«Every dollar put into helping more people in Miami participate in our city's economic opportunities is an investment in our future and these funds will go to community organizations that are helping families and small business owners get ahead and build a path to prosperity,» Guillermo Castillo, market leader and head of commercial banking for Chase in South Florida, said in a statement.

You will soon receive an email from us with more information that will illustrate why there is a growing storm in Canada's small business community over this matter.

Between the year of its signing and 2014, the U.S. lost more than 14 percent of its small community banks, while the number of large banks rose 6.3 percent, according to the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

«With this one practical measure, small businesses can better weather the current economic climate, hire more employees and help their local communities prosper for years to come.»

There are well more than 2 million small businesses in New York, operating in every region, community, and neighborhood throughout the state.

You could start out by working with a small community of micro-influencers as they are more likely to endorse smaller brands.

The goal was likely to provide small but politically impactful investments designed more for publicity and visibility rather than effective support for the research community.

The truth is, you should be more interested in a small, highly engaged community than a large follower or fan count.

Wells Fargo serves approximately 3 million small business owners across the United States and loans more money to America's small businesses than any other bank (loans under $ 1 million, 2002 - 2016 Community Reinvestment Act government data).

According to the Independent Community Bankers of America, these small banks also might be more flexible in their lending practices.

The small - business community votes, and they are watching health - care policy more closely than any other group.

While community banks make up less than 20 percent of the financial industry's assets, they provide more than half of the nation's small - business loans under $ 1 million.

But he does not forget (except for the Seventh - day Adventists) the churches and temples of smaller and more marginal religious communities, buildings typically overlooked in standard surveys of American architecture.

Some small Christian communities scattered about the Mediterranean and barely more than a dozen letters that would survive.