Small businesses get the ear of U.S. commerce official A Milford manufacturing company that makes diesel injector components saw 80 percent of its business disappear in two months. AB Heller Precision Machining’s Peter Rosenkrands told a group at Monday’s roundtable discussion on challenges facing Michigan’s small manufacturing businesses — attended by U.S. Rep. Gary Peters,...Read More
Today is Foursquare day (4/16 is four squared). The movement started with a Florida optometrist to celebrate with meetups and merchant offers in cities that include Miami, San Diego, New Orleans, Portland and London. Interesting how a user phenomenon — yet to scale among SMB advertisers — is being initiated by the latter. Check in...Read More
UK small businesses struggle with £63bn mountain of unpaid bills Small businesses are being forced to write-off debt at a faster rate because they are struggling to reduce a near £63bn mountain of unpaid bills, say bankers. Read more on Daily TelegraphRead More
There was a time when it looked like eBay would replace garage sales – or the Goodwill box. But putting things up for sale was probably too much work. In fact, garage sale postings in 2009 were up 80 percent on Craigslist last year. Craigslist, Oodle and PennySaver have been among the leaders in online...Read More
