businesses
More small businesses use Twitter, Facebook to promote
By Jon Swartz, USA TODAYSAN FRANCISCO — A surge in social-media use by small businesses reflects a shift in how they operate and their comfort with increasingly easy-to-use technology.
In growing numbers, small-business owners are adopting social-networking services, location-based services, Twitter and online video to promote products and services, according to a new study by MerchantCircle, a social network for small businesses. It polled › Continue reading
Credit Card Reform Offers No Relief for Businesses
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By Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D.
The new credit card rules, which stepped into effect at the end of February, introduce a number of important new protections for consumers. Unfortunately, the new rules exclude one of the parties that need the new protections the most: small businesses.
Many small businesses, particularly start-ups, often rely on business credit cards to fund costs and bridge gaps in cash flow. In the wake of › Continue reading
More than 900 car dealers try to get businesses back
By Tom Krisher, AP Auto WriterDETROIT — Michael Wolf is taking a big gamble that he can convince an arbitrator to give him back his Chrysler-Jeep dealership.
He’s among more than 900 car dealers nationwide who have signed up to appeal decisions by General Motors or Chrysler Group to revoke their franchise agreements and shut them down.
Wolf and his wife have owned Wolf Motor Car for 22 years in Plymouth, Wis., halfway between › Continue reading