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Small Business Optimism Ticks Up But Threats Still Loom
The past few months have certainly been challenging for a number of the country's small businesses. Between mandated closures, necessary adjustments and investments required for reopening, and on-going health concerns, business owners have been hit on multiple fronts. Nevertheless it seems as though some are starting to see some hope. According to a recently-released survey conducted by the National Small Business Association, optimism among entrepreneurs is slowly increasing. To be...
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NASA Announces $51 Million in Small Business Investments
Recently, the world watched as the results of a major private-public partnership took to the sky. On May 30th, the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carried two NASA astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida to the international space station. On the heels of that accomplishment, NASA has revealed the next round of companies developing tomorrow's big breakthroughs, announcing the latest recipients of their Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer...
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American Express Commits $200 Million to Latest Shop Small Campaign
For some time now, American Express has made its support of small businesses clear. While the credit card company's best-known link to the small business world is their invention of Small Business Saturday — which is celebrated on the Saturday after Thanksgiving each November — their Shop Small efforts are year-round. Now, at a time when many businesses are working to recover from the financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Square Clarifies Controversial "Reserves" Policy
Over the past several years, Square has grown into one of the most popular small business tools and enabled entrepreneurs to process payments in new ways. However this ubiquity also means that changes to their policies — such as adjustments made to their fees — are often big news and may court controversy. The latest example of this revolves around reserves, with some small businesses claiming that Square has begun...
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Comerica Bank Commits $1 Million to Create Black Capital Access Program
Given the current state of our country and its small businesses, one bank has revealed its plans to step up and assist one community of entrepreneurs who are among the hardest hit. Last week, Comerica Bank announced that it was partnering with the National Business League to create the Black Capital Access Program (BCAP). The bank will be supporting this effort to assist Black-owned small businesses with a commitment of...
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Viraltag Review (2020)
There's no doubt in my mind that Viraltag has helped me up my social media game and allowed me to gain solid followers even as a new site. From the ability to schedule posts while surfing the web (do people still say that?) to automatically reposting my best content, the service has surely saved me a ton of time maintaining my accounts.
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