The unemployment rate rose to 6.7% in November and nearly 80000 of those who lost their jobs worked for small businesses. Michelle Miller has one man’s storyRead More

Contract conference to help W.Va. small businesses Associated Press – April 20, 2010 9:45 AM ET FAIRMONT, W.Va. (AP) – About 200 small businesses are expected to attend a conference in Fairmont on working for the federal government. Read more on WVVA BluefieldRead More

If You Have a Business Website, and You should do, then You MUST Have a Blog Blogging produced a revolution in the business of online marketing. While blogging is a great Web 2.0 marketing tool for any business, it has become, especially for new, shoestring budget start-ups, a vital means to getting website traffic. The...Read More

Web 2.0 Has Changed How Small Businesses Market their Businesses Though still in its infancy, Web 2.0 has completely altered the way businesses market online. It puts business collaboration not only in the hands of managers and employees, but also customers and potential customers, decentralizing the chain-of-command into more of a spider-web effect. Entrepreneurs looking...Read More

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