Many small businesses choose to keep minimal financial information about their customers on file, reports the Press Enterprise. Those businesses feel that makes their business less likely to be the subject of a data breach, such as the one that affected Target. Read more...

According to the Washington Post, small business lending increased in 2013. This marks the fourth straight year of increases in small business lending. Read more...

SEO company, Avital Web, is now offering free SEO consultations for small businesses. Search engine optimization, or SEO, can help small local businesses compete with major international corporations and create a strong market. SEO is designed to strengthen and build websites and improve both the quality and the quantity of their traffic. It can be used alone or in conjunction with other Internet marketing efforts, including dental marketing, social media campaigns, pay-per-click campaigns and online marketing campaigns.  Read more...

 Velocify, the market-leader in cloud-based intelligent sales automation solutions, today announced the release of a study conducted by Steve W. Martin, an expert on the complex human nature of business-to-business sales, author of the "Heavy Hitter" series and professor at the University of Southern California, entitled "The Truth about the Field Sales to Inside Sales Migration Trend." Underwritten by Velocify, the study confirms a shift from field to inside sales models, as well as identifies market factors prompting the shift and the top benefits. Read more...