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Facebook Survey Highlights Small Business Challenges, Adaptations
It's no secret that the past few months have been incredibly challenging for many small businesses. Because of this, there has been a slew of recent surveys seeking to quantify the impacts that the pandemic has had on entrepreneurs. The latest of such reports comes from Facebook, which surveyed small business leaders in more than 50 countries back in May. With Facebook's survey spanning the globe, it's interesting to note...
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Hulu Beta Testing Ad Manager for Small Businesses
As new technologies have emerged over the years, small business owners have continued to adapt in order to make the most of these platforms. Perhaps most notably, the past decade has ushered in an age of social media that's transformed the way businesses reach their customers. Meanwhile, linear television networks that typically carry local commercials have slowly been usurped by streaming services. Now one such service is expanding its advertising...
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Small Business Optimism Ticks Up But Threats Still Loom
The past few months have certainly been challenging for a number of the country's small businesses. Between mandated closures, necessary adjustments and investments required for reopening, and on-going health concerns, business owners have been hit on multiple fronts. Nevertheless it seems as though some are starting to see some hope. According to a recently-released survey conducted by the National Small Business Association, optimism among entrepreneurs is slowly increasing. To be...
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NASA Announces $51 Million in Small Business Investments
Recently, the world watched as the results of a major private-public partnership took to the sky. On May 30th, the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carried two NASA astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida to the international space station. On the heels of that accomplishment, NASA has revealed the next round of companies developing tomorrow's big breakthroughs, announcing the latest recipients of their Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer...
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American Express Commits $200 Million to Latest Shop Small Campaign
For some time now, American Express has made its support of small businesses clear. While the credit card company's best-known link to the small business world is their invention of Small Business Saturday — which is celebrated on the Saturday after Thanksgiving each November — their Shop Small efforts are year-round. Now, at a time when many businesses are working to recover from the financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Square Clarifies Controversial "Reserves" Policy
Over the past several years, Square has grown into one of the most popular small business tools and enabled entrepreneurs to process payments in new ways. However this ubiquity also means that changes to their policies — such as adjustments made to their fees — are often big news and may court controversy. The latest example of this revolves around reserves, with some small businesses claiming that Square has begun...
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