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Report: Small business sales up 5.2 pct in November as holiday shopping offsets Sandy impact
A report on Wednesday shows that shoppers spent 5.2 percent more at small retailers in November than they did last year. Small businesses even fared better than the industry at large: Total U.S. retail sales increased 4.5 percent for the same period. Read More
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Well, someone did. Christopher Dietz, owner of Dietz Development, filed a $750,000 lawsuit after customer—and Dietz’s former high school classmate—Jane Perez gave the company poor marks on Yelp and Angie’s List. Read More
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Why Page Speed Matters To Google And To Your Small Business
Your website speed is one of the key ways Google measures you and ranks you. If your site is slow, you get penalized. One thing many business owners don’t think about is the way their site performs, as in how long a user has to wait for a page to load. The good news is that Google gives you an entire suite of tools to analyze and optimize your website page speed. You can visit the PageSpeed Tools on the Google Developer site. Read More
This year, about 500,000 small businesses around the country participated in the event, which attracted some 100 million consumers; the National Federation of Independent Businesses reported that 67 percent of consumers planned to shop small. And although American Express is notoriously tight-lipped about the incremental revenue generated by the promotion, anecdotally, at least, it seems business owners around the country are enjoying a modest windfall from the event. Read More
(via Small Business Saturday by the Numbers - US Business News - CNBC)
Welcome to Small Business Saturday! Are you participating?
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Promote Your Small Business Saturday Sale With Glyder
Glyder includes the free Shop Small e-mail and social media templates that any business can use to spread the word about Small Business Saturday via Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, e-mail, text message, MailChimp e-mail lists, and Apple’s new Passbook app. This will make getting these messages, that are prewritten and predesigned, delivered to small business customers in literally just a minute or two. Read More
(via Promote Your Small Business Saturday Sale With This App - OPEN Forum :: American Express OPEN Forum)
Top Social Tools to Attract Local Shoppers
Getting customers in the door and buying your products is an ongoing quest for small-business owners. In the era of online stores and big box giants, the task seems onerous, but take heart, consumers want to purchase from local business owners. Click here for a list of tools to help you get customers through the door and shopping at your store for Small Business Saturday and beyond.
(via Top Social Tools to Attract Local Shoppers - OPEN Forum :: American Express OPEN Forum)
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Being the Brand: Inside Brooklyn Creative Firms
For creative firms—including advertising and branding companies—looks are everything. Your space to some degree defines your brand for both clients and potential employees. Having a cool office is de rigueur for any firm that wants to win top talent and big-time clients. And in response to the legendary office spaces of tech giants Google, Facebook, and Apple, as well as the homey, funky office movement of tech startups, creative firms are in a heated battle to out-hip each other. Click here to see OPEN Forum’s new photo essay.
(via Being the Brand: Inside Brooklyn Creative Firms - OPEN Forum :: American Express OPEN Forum)
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