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Small Business Jobs Decline
According to CNBC, there was a decrease in the Small Business Jobs Index for March. It decreased 0.12, and overall it is down 1.07 percent from last year. However, small-business wages are on the rise, growing .69 per hour.
Read more...Platform Works to Make Small Business Funding Easier
SourceFunding is working to make finding funding easier for small businesses, reports Forbes. The platform aggregates information from hundreds of lending institutions so small businesses can easily find a lender to work with them.
Read more...Despite Facebook’s recent Cambridge Analytics data sharing scandal, many small business still think Facebook is a viable, affordable marketing tool, reports Inc.com. To that end, Facebook is rolling out $1 billion in new small business initiatives.
Read more...Using Robots in Small Business
According Robotics Business Review, robots can benefit small businesses by taking on repetitive tasks, which would free humans for more important tasks.
Read more...Small Business Sites Under Cyber Attack
Small businesses websites get attacked at least 44 times per day, reports the Washington Post. The number is from security firm Sitelock’s analysis of data from six million websites, that found that bots, malware and malicious software are infecting 18 milion websites.
Read more...Salesforce Introduces New Customer Relations Tool
Salesforce has released a new set of tools to help businesses build relationships with their customers, reports Small Business Computing. The cloud based tools rely on artificial intelligence and automation so businesses can set up a customer service help desk.
Read more...Data Disaster Could Impact Business
According to Forbes, the Facebook data sharing scandal may impact how other sites share your data. While overall that is good, it can also mean there will be workflow slowdowns as it takes more steps to get authorization to use data.
Read more...Amazon Offers Small Business Credit Card
Amazon is entering the financial services marketplace, reports Inc.com. One of the products they are offering is a co branded credit card aimed at small business owners.
Read more...Small Business Admin Makes Loans Easier
According Inc, the Small Business Administration has made changes to its SBA 7(a) loan program to make it easier for small business to qualify. The rules which took effect in January cut the equity needed for acquisition loans and changes how franchisees get financing.
Read more...Business Executives’ Optimism about U.S. Economy Hits Post-Recession High
Business executives’ optimism about the U.S. economy continues to soar but is tempered somewhat by growing inflation concerns, according to the first-quarter AICPA Economic Outlook Survey, which polls chief executive officers, chief financial officers, controllers and other certified public accountants in U.S. companies who hold executive and senior management accounting roles.
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