Local governments’ subsidies for area Chambers of Commerce, which help small businesses with various services, are getting more scrutiny from local officials, with some cutting them back, according to a report over the weekend by the Salt Lake Tribune.
The article asks whether Chambers of Commerce deserve taxpayer money, and what role should public entities [...]
The confirmation hearing for Karen Gordon Mills, President Obama’s choice to lead the Small Business Administration, is set for Wednesday in the Senate’s Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee.
Some in the small-business community wondered when her confirmation hearing would begin, considering the agency has received much attention in recent weeks. The Obama administration unveiled a new [...]
- Some ways to find business leads using Twitter. Among them: Using the advanced search function and setting up RSS to monitor other conversations. [DuctTapeMarketing.com]
- The state of black entrepreneurship in the U.S. is bleak, researchers say. [Entrepreneur.com]
- We mentioned this week how the bottled water industry is getting some flack for being environmentally hazardous. [...]
Would heavier regulation of the credit card industry be a bad or good thing for small businesses?
A new 34-page report by the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council argues that government regulation of the credit card industry ultimately hurts small businesses, by making it harder for card issuers to stay competitive and offer the most flexible [...]
Members of Congress continue to toss around ideas to help small businesses dig out of the recession. The latest suggestion: appoint a special U.S. trade representative to focus on the needs of small companies.
The idea was floated by Senators Mary Landrieu, D-La., Olympia J. Snowe, R-Maine, and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y, who wrote a letter to [...]
Small businesses’ health-insurance woes have been getting some attention the past couple weeks, and raising hopes that the Obama administration will soon do something about them.
A new Government Accountability Office report finds that the small group health-insurance market – generally defined as covering businesses with up to 50 employees – has become much more concentrated [...]
If you launch a public-awareness campaign about an important environmental cause – and then generate $6 million in sales from it — are you a greedy entrepreneur or a selfless environmentalist? Or both of the above?
That’s the question Mark DiMassimo and Eric Yaverbaum are asking.
About 17 months ago, the New York entrepreneurs and marketing professionals [...]
Fed up with seeing local small businesses being ravaged by the economic downturn, some people are taking matters into their own hands. They’re trying to reverse the fortunes of mom-and-pop stores by becoming more organized in “buying local.”
– In Fort Myers, Fla., people driving by Clancey’s Restaurant saw this huge sign outside: “Support the local [...]
Women entrepreneurs undoubtedly face a unique set of challenges, and often run different types of businesses than their male counterparts. What can the Obama administration and Congress do to help them?
The National Women’s Business Council released a new report with several recommendations for how the new administration can better assist women business owners, based on [...]
The values that immigrants learned about being thrifty, avoiding excessive debt and relying on family support from their native countries are helping them better ride out the recession than most entrepreneurs, according to an article last week by the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia.
That pay-as-you-go philosophy was born and ingrained from cultures where credit is [...]