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Small Businesses Access to Working Capital

CAN Capital, Inc., the market share leader in alternative small business finance, and iPayment, Inc., a premier provider of payment solutions and processing services, today announced a partnership to provide over 150,000 small businesses currently working with iPayment the ability to apply for access to flexible financial solutions to help them grow their businesses. Read more...

Small Business Shop a Flop in Illinois

The Chicago Small Business Health Options Program (shop) is in trouble, reports Crain’s Chicago Business. Illinois insurance marketplace designed to help small business find affordable coverage for their employees is now down to only one insurance provider. When the marketplace opened there were two providers, now there is just one. Read more...

Small Business Optimism Remains Steady

Optimism remains high for small business owners, reports Bay 9 News. The 2015 Bank of America Small Business Report finds that 72 percent of those surveyed expected their revenue to increase. In addition, 62 percent plan on hiring more staff in 2016. Read more...

Successful Small Biz Saturday

According to Forbes, this year’s Small Business Saturday was the most successful since its launch in 2010. Over 95 million shoppers visited small businesses and spent a total of $16.2 million dollars.   Read more...

Small Business Employment Gains

November saw an increase in small business employment, reports Accounting Today. The numbers are according to the Paychex IHS Small Business Jobs Index, it showed a small gain in November. Read more...

Small Business Spurs Growth

Small business sales are driving retail growth, reports CNBC. The most recent numbers from MasterCard Advisors show that small business sales in the past 12 months, have made up 39.6 percent of total retail sales. In addition, small business sales account for 70 percent of the current retail growth. Read more...

Small Business Saturday Success

According to the Las-Vegas Review Journal, 2015’s small business Saturday was a success. Numbers released by American Express and the National Federation of Independent Businesses showed that over 95 million shoppers visited a small businesses on Small Business Saturday. This is an 8 percent increase from 2014. Read more...

Smarter Customer Service and Sales for SMBs

Salesforce [NYSE: CRM], the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM company, today announced a new integration between Desk.com and SalesforceIQ that delivers smarter customer service and sales for SMBs. Now, Desk.com, the all-in-one customer service app for fast-growing companies, and SalesforceIQ for Small Business, the easy, proactive and smart sales solution that provides an intelligent way for SMBs to close more deals, are coming together to supercharge service and sales teams. Read more...

Small Business Loans Banking On New SaaS Technology

Small businesses want to stay with the one they love--their trusted community bank. But these bank customers also crave ease, efficiency, and 24/7 access. Akouba Credit (www.akoubacredit.com) is helping banks better serve their valued small business customers with customized SaaS (software as a service) platforms. Akouba Credit is giving banks a new, competitive technological edge. Read more...

Secure Collaboration for Meetings

Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced a new, enhanced version of RICOH Smart Presenter aimed to enable collaboration and sharing of documents, images and other information across organizations of any size for meetings. This paperless meeting solution streamlines document preparation and centralizes meeting management for improved document workflows and collaboration. Read more...

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