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Facebook Leader in Small Business Advertising
Traditional search engine advertising such as Google Adwords may not be the best investment for small business advertising, reports Small Business Trends. Social media sites, specifically Facebook offer a larger reach than adwords, currently Facebook has over 1.55 billion monthly users.
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Small Business Gets a Boost
According to Columbus Business First, woman and veteran owned businesses will benefit from JP Morgan’s new Small Business Forward plan. The plan has Morgan committing $75 million dollars over the next three years to help these small businesses.
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Easier for Small Business Owners to Do Business
In an effort to help small business owners with one of the more complex aspects of owning a business - buying commercial insurance - Allstate Insurance Company has launched a new functionality that enables business owners to quickly and conveniently quote and purchase a businessowner's policy (BOP) in about five minutes, by going directly through Allstate.com or the Small Business Connection.
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Email Encryption And Email Archiving Features For Office 365 Users
GoDaddy Inc. has announced the availability of two new features, Email Archiving and Email Encryption, for Office 365 users. The new features, available as add-on services for all GoDaddy Office 365 customers, will make it easier for small business owners to transmit, store and protect valuable data about their business and customers, and simpler for those operating in regulated industries to remain compliant.
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Small Business Optimism Wanes
September proved to be a bad month for business confidence, reports Fox Business. Overall the National Retail Federation’s Optimism index fell to 94.1, a decline from August’s 94.4.
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Small Businesses Can Survive a Slump
Business is cyclical, but small businesses tend to feel the cycles more harshly, especially the slumps, reports Fox News. There are ways for small businesses to weather the slow times.
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EMV Lawsuit Proceeds
According to Business Insider, a federal judge will allow a lawsuit brought by several small businesses against the major US card companies to proceed. The EMV related lawsuit claims the credit card processors colluded to make the transition process as lengthy and expensive as possible for the small businesses.
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Cyber Risk Insurance Platform for Small and Mid-sized Businesses
EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants, a retail property, casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, today announced the launch of a proprietary Cyber Risk and Insurance Platform, tailored to the unique needs of small and mid-sized businesses who are increasingly the most desirable targets of Cyber-attacks.
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Small Businesses Take On Credit Card Companies
A federal judge has allowed a case against the four major credit card companies to proceed, reports WTVR. The lawsuit, brought by four grocery store chains, alleges unfair practices on the part of the credit card companies in regards to the change to chip based credit card readers. The case has yet to achieve class action status, but if it does it could encompass 8 million small businesses.
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Small Businesses Caught Up in Wells Fargo Scheme
Small businesses might also be affected by the Wells Fargo credit account scheme, reports Reuters. There may as many as 10,000 small business accounts impacted by the same improper Wells practices, that were used on individual consumers.
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