Small businesses in New York and around the country may soon have additional tools to market their products abroad if Rep. Nydia M. Velazquez (D-NY) has her way. As the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Small Business, Velazquez today introduced H.R. 3976, new legislation aimed at facilitating the participation of small firms [...]

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Today, the National Small Business Association (NSBA) and its international trade arm, the Small Business Exporters Association (SBEA), sent a letter to House leadership urging their prompt action to reauthorize and increase the lending cap on the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank). Currently facing potential stoppages in financing small-business exporting, more than 70 small-business owners, [...]

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TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank®, is offering small business owners more checking choices and better control of their money with the introduction of TD Business Checking ( www.tdbank.com/small_business/checking.html ). The new product offering consists of three checking accounts with tiered features, and enables small business owners to choose the account that best suits the [...]

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The Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index, an analysis of 1,000 loan applications on Biz2credit.com, found that approval rates of small business financing requests in January by small banks and non-bank lenders increased to their highest levels in the past 12 months. Meanwhile, lending at big banks jumped two percentage points over December’s rate to 11.7%, [...]

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Women business owners have more responsibilities than ever before in today’s fast paced world. The International Association of Business Organizing (IABO) was founded to help women business owners balance work, home and family life. IABO is excited to announce that they will now be offering new members their Gold Membership for free.
The number of women-owned [...]

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Online Marketing Coach today released “Small Businesses Just Don’t Get SEO,” comprehensive study of 200 U.S. small business web sites that often struggle to succeed with search engine optimization.
Online Marketing Coach, a service of integrated online marketing agency World Synergy, found that 62% of small business websites don’t rank for any keywords on Google. They’re [...]

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TCM Holdings Group, Inc. (TCMH) announced that it has established a nationwide small business lending fund. TCMH’s new fund will lend $50,000 to $250,000 in financing to credit qualified small businesses for start-up or working capital, in the form of an unsecured loan or credit line. The interest rates can be as low as 8.99% [...]

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If you don’t know everything you would like to know about how to grow your small business — who are your best customers, what is your most profitable product or service, what’s the best location for your business — you need business intelligence (BI).
“The businesses that aren’t obtaining this kind of information are operating below [...]

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The Return of Small-Business Credit Cards
Lenders are courting small-business owners like you with growing numbers of new credit cards and generous rewards programs.
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Small Business Group Launches Campaign Opposing Obama’s Plan To Wind Down Federal Small Business Programs
Today the American Small Business League (ASBL) is launching a national campaign to educate the media, the [...]

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