Archive for July 31st, 2011
Senate After SBA Over Small Biz Contracts
Late last month, I mentioned an article discussing SBA numbers evaluated by the American Small Business League showing that the SBA did not give small businesses as many contracts as originally claimed. According to Entrepreneur, the senate is now taking a second look at the numbers released by the SBA and questioning their process. At [...]
California’s New Online Sales Tax Hits Marketers Hard
The recession didn’t kill Nick Loper’s business. Jerry Brown did. Once the governor signed the new online sales tax law last month, a variety of businesses, including Amazon, cut loose the affiliates they had in California. After six years of growing what started as a $200-a-month business into a profitable full-time gig, Loper said he [...]
Hydrokinetic Power: The Future Of Electricity
Ted Christopher moved to San Diego three years ago to work in his cousins sheet metal shop. Every weekend he tinkered on his own secret project. In 2009, he returned to Minneapolis and launched his own business, Verterra Energy Inc. Through Verterra he hopes to bring his “small” project to life. Using power of water, [...]
Groupon has helped many businesses reach new customers, but are these businesses ready to say goodbye to the service? A number of companies have been approached by Groupon and copy-cat deal a day sites for advertising, and they are no longer welcoming the service. One business owner, Joe Hargraves, who runs Tacolicious, says he’s received [...]
