The much awaited and the much needed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Economic Stimulus Bill was signed by President Barak Obama on February 18, 2009.It created history in United States because it is the country's largest legislation in history and aimed at rejuvenating the ailing economy by providing stimulus to different sectors. Along with other provisions, this stimulus bill also contains provisions for small business sectors. ...more
Targeted grant programs are designed to assist Native Americans in establishing or expanding small business enterprises. In order to obtain this type of funding, an individual must be enrolled with a tribal nation. Enrollment means that the individual officially must be recognized as a member of a Native American tribe or the business must be certified as a targeted small business before applying for or receiving funds under this program. ...more
The Federal, state and local governments have a wide range of financing programs to help small businesses start and grow their operations. The programs include low-interest loans, venture capital, and scientific and economic development grants. The Federal Government offer grants to programs that fall under the following categories: Agriculture, Arts, Business and Commerce, Community Development, Food and N utrition, Health, Housing, Humanities, Information and Statistics, Law, Justice and Legal Services, Natural Resources, Regional Development, Science and Technology and Social Services.The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) works with existing and startup small companies to help in every phase of the business cycle, including financing.City of Austin Small Business Development Program offers training and technical assistance to anyone starting, expanding, or managing a small business. They can be reached at OneTexasCenter,1stFloor,505, Barton Springs Rd., Austin, Texas .Government grants are designed to assist businesses, but usually it goes to agencies and nonprofit organizations which perform some service for business or benefit business in some way, such as community...more
The Importance of Contact Management for any Business By: Skylight About the Author Taimur Khan - Founder Skylightit.comWith 20 years in the Creative media industry, Taimur has worked with CNN, BBC, Channel 4, PBS, Discovery, Sky and Nat Geo amongst many other networks directing, editing and producing films, commercials and...more
The most significant problem in starting up a new business is raising the capital. Especially in starting the photography business, initial capital is required to purchase the equipments, rental for the premises hired, utilities, advertising etc. There are so many ways by which the capital money is raised to cover the initial costs as mentioned...more
Traditionally women own smaller type of businesses with the least amount of financial assistance from banks and venture capital firms. Hence their financial options are very limited and they need grants which are very difficult to get. Due to good credit histories and the collateral securities provided by them, the businesses are run. They even use the credit cards and borrow from family members and friends to start a business which are not comfortable for them. In order to help them, the women's financial fund, a non-profit organization was started to give grants to women. This has given a chance to the women to start their own businesses and get employment security in family friendly companies without availing any loans from the financial institutions.Women are encouraged to own all types of businesses including network marketing companies and service oriented businesses under new business grants by this organization. Existing business grants have been given to women to expand their existing businesses, for developing new products, expanding into new market and for buying new equipments to increase their reach.In order to quality for getting the grants, they must...more
While starting a small business, raising the start up capital is the top most priority. The business grants such as free grants are the best capital as these need not have to be paid back. The other types of grants are like loans which require...more
Due to the age-old prejudices faced by the minorities in our society, the minorities interested in starting new businesses face quite a lot of problems even in getting the approval for the business loans. In order to overcome these obstacles, they...more
A business telephone system that features robust voice over IP features is ideal to meet the specific telecommunication needs of small and medium sized businesses. This phone system is an ideal choice to stand ahead of the prevailing competition in...more
The State of Minnesota provides business grants to help the existing and aspiring small business women owners. Though it is not plentiful, grants provide significant resources for business start ups. The Minnesota Business Development Corporation...more
When you are interested in working with a business broker in Wisconsin, one of your first questions undoubtedly will be in reference to the buying process itself. Basically, you are going to be wondering how the buying process works. There are of...more
For the MLM and home business entrepreneur there are a veritable plethora of marketing opportunities available today. Traditional methods are still going strong and the explosion of the internet has opened a whole new frontier of electronic marketing...more