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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Infographic: Top 10 Cities for Black-Owned Small Businesses
Black-owned businesses are on a roll. In 2007, African-Americans ran 7.1 percent of businesses in the United States. Five years later, that number grew to 9.4 percent—even during a recession—according to the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau released this September. The portion of U.S. businesses with employees led by Blacks slightly increased as well—from 1.9 percent in 2007 to 2.0 percent in 2012.
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Optimism Plateaus for Small Business
Small business hiring in October remained stagnant, despite the fact that small business owners expect to have higher sales, reports CNBC. The National Federation of Independent Businesses reported that their small business optimism index remained at 96.1.
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Health Insurance Costs Not Going Down
The Affordable Care Act, is not lowering health insurance costs for small business, reports the Daily Caller. More businesses have seen their healthcare costs rise, over 63 percent, since the Affordable Care Act’s Implementation. Only eight percent of businesses reported the mandate has lowered their health insurance costs.
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Small Business Saturday
According to the Almanac, Small Business Saturday was started in 2010 as a promotion by American Express, and they intended for it to only run one year. Now, the shopping event is in its 5th year and continues to grow. Last year, over $14 billion dollars was spent at small businesses.
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Small Business Lending Rises
According to CNBC, the Thomson Reuters/PayNet Small Business Lending Index increased in September. The rate indicates that companies are borrowing money in order to produce goods for sale in the 4th quarter.
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