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• Google Rolls Out Local Tags. Should You Care?

  You may remember that in April Google rebranded its Local Business Center to a more succinctly named Google Places. You may also remember that as part of the sprucing, they gave us a look at a brand new ad format coming to help small business owners bring prominence to their 7-pack listing. The ad

• President Obama Proposes Tax Credits, Other Assistance for Small Businesses

  In his State of the Union address last week, President Obama had a lot to offer to the nation’s small businesses. Here are some of the ideas he proposed: • Using $30 billion in TARP funds that the big banks have repaid to help community banks make additional loans to small businesses. • Elimin

• Why Small Business is Fed Up with Government

  “…what really grinds the gears of small business owners is the near-complete inattention by lawmakers on who creates jobs.” So said Kimble Fletcher Ainslie in a Cato Institute article from December 20, 2001 titled “Bush Ignores Small Business.” Eight years later under a different pres

• Wow! Cookies! How One Company Stands Out

  I just had the best cookie!  Yes, you read that right  — I’m writing about cookies.  And no, this is not turning into a recipe blog. This post has an entrepreneurial connection — bear with me, and I’ll tell you about it. Today I got a package from FedEx. Turns out it was a

• Small Business News for March 2, 2010

  Learn more about what’s important to your small business today. Here is our latest roundup of the news articles and blogswe’re reading and what’s important, from Small Business Trends. Policy Is health care reform already hurting small business? Learning from Massachusetts. Small b