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<item><title>Social Media, SEO and Hiring Top SMB Priorities</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The survey indicated small businesses understand the importance of implementing online marketing tools to help achieve business goals.   -  Schedulicity, a specialist in online appointment scheduling for small, appointment-dependent businesses, announced the results of its business and economic outlook study for 2012. Among survey respondents, fully 91 percent indicated they expect their business to perform better than it performed in 2...]]></description>
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<item><title>Intuit Offers GoPayment Card, Facebook Store for SMBs</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The free SimpleStore tool automatically syncs the merchant's Website and Facebook page.   -  As  part of its GoPayment mobile payment offering, Intuit announced the launch of  the GoPayment Prepaid Visa Card. The card expands Intuit's strategy beyond  processing credit cards on a mobile device to offering the convenience of a  Visa prepaid account linked to GoPayment. The company also recen...]]></description>
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<item><title>Mobile Apps Offer Information, Resources for SMBs</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[These new mobile apps complement SBA's mobile application created for iPhones in partnership with Palo Alto Software.   -  An electronic application that finds loans, grants and other useful small business resources and its developer, Somesh Kumar of Fremont, Calif., won first prize and $5,000 in a nationwide competition sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration. The competition and resulting seven apps are me...]]></description>
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<item><title>Small Businesses Have Trouble Finding Qualified Employees</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sixty-one percent of those surveyed said the lack of skilled employees is an impediment to growth.   -  A study examining impediments to growth in the small-business sector reveals that 72 percent of small-business owners would like to expand by adding employees within the next five years, but various impediments are currently standing in their way. According to Growth and External Factors, a report p...]]></description>
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<item><title>Small Businesses Engaging in More Social Media Marketing</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The survey indicated small businesses are allocating more time to social media marketing to engage their targets.   -  Small businesses are becoming more comfortable with social media  marketing and are using it more when engaging with customers, according  to survey data from marketing specialist Constant Contact. The Fall  2011 Attitudes and Outlook Survey also reports that small businesses  still rely heavily on ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Small-Business Owners Confident About Future Success</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Small-business owners remain optimistic about their success because profits aren't always the definition of success.   -  Small-business owners are  battling regulatory challenges and the war for talent, factors that are  negatively impacting their bottom line and potentially altering how they vote  in 2012, according to the findings of The Hartford's Small Business  Success Study. Despite high unemployment rates, find...]]></description>
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<item><title>CompTIA Report Finds Small Businesses Support Tax Simplification</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[According to the study, SMBs wrestle with a number of costly and complicated tax provisions.   -  IT trade association CompTIA released a study that took a look at  how taxes affect small and midsize businesses across the country,  finding that overall, across both business size and form, opinions of  the tax system were similar in one clear respect: An overwhelming  majority of respondents note...]]></description>
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<item><title>Intuit, Bank of America Partner on SMB Payroll Services</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bank of America already works with Intuit to provide small business customers with Easy Online Payroll.   -  Bank  of America and Intuit announced the availability of Intuit Full Service Payroll  for Bank of America small business customers, which provides guaranteed  error-free paychecks and payroll taxes, as well as a team of experts to address  any number of payroll issues. One key feature is the guaran...]]></description>
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<item><title>Midmarket Businesses Investing More in Technology: Deloitte</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A survey reveals technology investments are playing an increasingly larger role in midmarket companies' bottom line.   -  Executives  at three out of four midmarket companies are maintaining or boosting their  long-term investments despite the U.S. economy  s less than 1 percent growth  rate during the first half of the year, according to a Deloitte survey. The  report,  quot;Mid-Market Perspectives: America's Economic...]]></description>
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<item><title>SaaS Growing More Popular With SMBs: Report</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The SMB market for mobile SaaS is already expected to reach $3 billion in 2011 and increase to $16.6 billion in 2016.   -  As  more workers become mobile-enabled, the mobile software-as-a-service (SaaS)  market is evolving, with more small to medium-size business employees using  smartphones with data plans--and other wireless devices--to further improve  productivity and worker mobility, according to Strategy Analytics...]]></description>
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<item><title>Small Business Confidence Inches Up in September</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Twenty-eight percent of small business owners say poor sales is still their top business problem.   -  Small  business optimism gained 0.8 points in September, according to the National  Federation of Independent Business' latest index, ending a six-month decline.  However, the NFIB's chief economist cautioned that in spite of this uptick,  there is little among the 10 index components that can be co...]]></description>
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<item><title>Amazon Fire Tablet Won't Make a Small Business Splash</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Amazon's Kindle Fire has a low price, but not much of a punch for small-business tablet users.   -  With the HP TouchPad on the  ropes and Apple's iPad 2 cornering the tablet market, small businesses might  think they don  t have as many choices as they'd like when it comes to an  efficient, business-centric tablet. While devices like the BlackBerry PlayBook  cater to a more professional market, c...]]></description>
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<item><title>Mobility, Cloud Offer Opportunities for Businesses: Report</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/SMB-Partner/Mobile-Technology-Cloud-Services-Offer-Opportunities-for-Businesses-Report-206745/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[More than 35 percent of SMBs have used professional technical support for server issues, the survey found.   -  The tech support market for  small and midsize businesses will exceed $20 billion by 2015, according to  Parks Associates, which notes that the 2008 launch of AT amp;T's Tech Support  360 is a significant milestone in this market because this service was the  first to integrate communications, data ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Oracle to Demo New Database Appliance at OpenWorld</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Oracle Database Appliance is a sort of converged, medium-size Exadata for SMBs, midrange and remote-office enterprise IT systems.   -  Not  long after Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010, it did some rebranding and  ported over its 2-year-old, Hewlett-Packard-boxed Exadata Database Server to  its new SPARC-powered hardware and began weaning it off the older machines. If  Oracle was going to become a full-service IT provider, t...]]></description>
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<item><title>Few Small Businesses Plan to Hire as Economy Struggles: Report</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/SMB-Partner/Small-Business-Economy-Struggling-Few-Plan-to-Hire-Report-171874/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[There is more gloomy news from the small business front as companies report margins are squeezed and hiring prospects are slim.   -  Newtek Business Services announced the release of the Small  Business Authority Index for August 2011, which reached 108.06 points. The SB  Authority Index is up 0.76 percent from July 2011, with approved SBA loan  volumes, the Russell microcap index and retail sales causing the increase in  the ind...]]></description>
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