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Learn How to Develop Your Government Contract "Marketing Machine" at March 22 Women's Business Development Center Workshop

Business owners who want to grow their business with government contracts will learn the key elements to obtaining these contracts at a workshop, “Marketing Your Business to the Government,” on Tuesday, March 22, from 9 to 11 a.m., at the Women’s Business Development Center... - March 13, 2011 - Women's Business Development Center

Faction Media Leader Aaron Batte Named One of Denver’s "Forty Under 40"

Denver Business Journal to Honor Young Professional for Business Leadership, Significant Accomplishment and Community Involvement - March 13, 2011 - Faction Media

Epitome Global Services Names Kim Wales as New CEO

Epitome Global Services Names Kim Wales as New CEO

Epitome Global Services, a leading global administrator for the hedge fund and alternative asset management industry, today announced that effective immediately, Kim Wales, has been named Chief Executive Officer to lead Epitome into the next growth phase. Wales succeeds Raju Panjwani,... - March 12, 2011 - Epitome Global Services

BNI® Northeast Florida to Host Second Annual Golf Tournament

Proceeds will benefit Junior Achievement of North Florida. - March 12, 2011 - BNI, Northeast Florida

40Billion.com Launches Audio Startup Guides to Help Entrepreneurs Start New Businesses

Five downloadable guides help entrepreneurs start new businesses quickly with tips for raising money, writing business plans, incorporating, managing cash flow, and protecting ideas. - March 12, 2011 - 40Billion.com, Inc.

NewProductHelp.com Designated as Marketing Representative of Ezclipit Invention

Bonita L., Maryland resident and inventor, has contracted South Florida invention assistance leader NewProductHelp.com to represent her Ezclipit concept to potential licensees in industry over the next 2 years. An effective and innovative new product sure to appeal to anyone who has struggled with... - March 12, 2011 - New Product Help, Inc.

TandemSpring Announces the Launch of PlanScan, a Free Online Business Strategy Analyzer

TandemSpring announced today the launch of PlanScan, a free online business strategy analyzer which is available at www.tandemspring.com/planscan. Tomer Yogev, Founder and Principal Small Business Consultant at TandemSpring says, “PlanScan has really been a labor of love. We just hope that... - March 12, 2011 - TandemSpring

Can You be an Entrepreneur? PsychTests Releases Study Results on Key Traits for Successful Entrepreneurs

Psychtests.com helps aspiring entrepreneurs take the first crucial step by releasing a personality test to assess their potential. - March 10, 2011 - PsychTests AIM Inc.

Small Business in the Branches Key Topic at 16th Annual Best Practices in Retail Financial Services Symposium March 13-15, 2011

Nick Miller, president of Clarity Advantage, will moderate the session “Small Business in the Branches” on March 14, 2011 at the 16th Annual Best Practices in Retail Financial Services Symposium where attendees will hear from three banks that have developed successful branch small business programs. - March 10, 2011 - Clarity Advantage Corporation

Women's Business Development Center to Hold Connection Points Networking and Learning Event March 10

Women business owners who are accountants, attorneys, mediators and insurance brokers, and those seeking these types of resources, who want to connect and learn with other women-owned industry peers, should plan to attend this Connection Points, a networking event exclusively for women in these... - March 09, 2011 - Women's Business Development Center

New, Interactive Way to See Boston...by Way of a Scavenger Hunt Tour

New, Interactive Way to See Boston...by Way of a Scavenger Hunt Tour

Move over, walking tours! Bostonians and tourists alike will get a new way to experience Beantown when Stray Boots Scavenger Hunts launches Boston: The Game later this month, with free tickets until the end of March. The Game, already a hit in New York and Las Vegas, is a cell phone-guided scavenger hunt played entirely by text message. It gives players an in-depth look at a neighborhood (or "game zone"), including hidden gems and insights even natives don't know about. - March 08, 2011 - Stray Boots Scavenger Hunts

BoostBargains Mobile Coupon Application Seeming to Grow in Popularity for 2011

BoostBargains Mobile Coupon Application Seeming to Grow in Popularity for 2011

Frugal shoppers in the US are becoming more apparent, with mobile coupons becoming widely popular in 2011. BoostBargains.com's phone app for Blackberry, Droid and iPhones makes every coupon accessible 24/7. - March 08, 2011 - RealtyPartner, LLC

Barter Media Solutions Announces an Innovative Stimulus Plan That Helps Start Ups and Emerging Businesses Get National Advertising and Guaranteed New Sales

Barter Media Solutions Announces an Innovative Stimulus Plan That Helps Start Ups and Emerging Businesses Get National Advertising and Guaranteed New Sales

Barter Media Solutions announces $200 million dollar economic stimulus plan to help small businesses. - March 08, 2011 - Barter Media Solutions

Olalah Njenga, YellowWood Group CEO and Marketing Strategy Advisor Honored as a Top Entrepreneur

Olalah Njenga, CEO, top marketing strategist and thought leader is one of only 50 Triangle executives honored at Business Leader Media awards ceremony in Raleigh, NC. - March 08, 2011 - YellowWood Group, LLC

Finding Time Solo-E Certified Expert Shares Tips for Turning Ideas Into Realities

Time Management Master Coach and Mentor Paula Eder, along with Solo-E CEO Terry Zwierzynski discuss challenges that solo entrepreneurs face when working to translate their ideas into realities ... as well as some ways to overcome those obstacles. - March 05, 2011 - Finding Time

Despite the Recession, Mompreneur Opts for Kitty Litter Over Career

Mompreneur Carol O’Brien trades in business career to bring innovation to the $2 billion cat litter industry with the newly launched StikittyTM. - March 05, 2011 - Cleanicity

Lead Research Group Founders, Ryan Rasmussen and Matthew Marsh Nominated for The Orange County Business Journals' Excellence in Entrepreneurship Awards

Ryan Rasmussen, Co-Founder and CEO, and Matthew Marsh, Co-Founder and President are among the nominees for the 2011 Excellence in Entrepreneurship Awards hosted by the Orange County Business Journal. According to The Business Journal, the award recognizes individuals who embody the American entrepreneurial spirit and whose organizations have contributed to the strength of their region’s economy. - March 04, 2011 - Lead Research Group

Use Your Mobile Phone to Find Meetups, Sessions, and Parties at SXSW Interactive

The new Business Calendar Network (BCN) app for Apple iPhone and for Android helps entrepreneurs find the events that matter. Attendees at the upcoming SXSW Interactive festival will be able to use the BCN app on their Apple iPhone and Android mobile phones to find up-to-date information on all the SXSW Interactive events, parties, and sessions. - March 03, 2011 - Basecamp Business

Up to $25,000 Offered to Winners in Utah Start-Up Competition

Idea Partnership of Utah is Seeking Tech Savvy Entrepreneurs to Participate in their Local Business Plan Competition. - March 03, 2011 - Idea Partnership of Utah

Compass Partners Launches Annual National Summit

On April 1 over 300 innovators from around the world will gather in Washington, DC for Shift Series, a two-day summit focused on creating solutions to some of the world’s greatest problems. This conference, hosted by Compass Partners (www.compasspartners.org), will explore the ways that we can more effectively make a difference as individuals, institutions and society as a whole. Registration is now officially open at www.shiftseries.com. - March 03, 2011 - Compass Partners

Dr. Alicia Holland-Johnson Interviewed on Home Biz Site

Successful author and tutorial consultant, Dr. Alicia Holland-Johnson, interviewed on How to Build a Successful Home Based Business. - March 03, 2011 - Realistic Measures and Consulting

Market Research Organizations Rebound in 2010

Market Research Organizations Rebound in 2010

Despite success, staffing and the retention of top-performing market research talent represent formidable challenges in 2011 - March 02, 2011 - MarketResearchCareers

Internet Marketing Profits Now Available to Businesses in Perth, Huron & Oxford Counties

Internet Marketing Profits Now Available to Businesses in Perth, Huron & Oxford Counties

World’s Largest Internet Consultants Open Office in Ontario - March 02, 2011 - WSI - Dave Scott

DIDX Shares Success of SIP DID Marketplace with Full Canadian Footprint at Radically Low Price

Direct inward dialing is an integral part of successful VoIP communications business. The challenge is access to a domestic and international footprint for a mobile society. Price, codec conversion, SIP trunks, caller ID, SMS-capability, and pleasing the SMB and consumers with phone numbers for... - March 02, 2011 - Super Technologies, Inc. DIDX

Dave Hepler Will Help Businesses Achieve Their Goals as an ActionCOACH

Dave Hepler is the newest ActionCOACH in Winchester, Virginia. - March 02, 2011 - GulfSouth ActionCOACH

Social Network for Entrepreneurs Provides Small Business Help

Small Business Bonfire is an Online Community that Provides Small Business Help for Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners - March 01, 2011 - Small Business Bonfire

Virtual City Radio, Inc is Sponsoring Talent Showcase in Midtown New York

Virtual City Radio, Inc is Sponsoring Talent Showcase in Midtown New York

Talent Showcase Label Submit is to provide more exposure for unsigned music artist in hopes to get them signed to a major record label. - February 28, 2011 - IN THE VIRTUAL CITY INC dba 2 HOT 4 AIRWAVES

Romance Home Party Company Brown Bag Party Releases Instinctively Yours Pheromone Attractant

Romance Home Party Company Brown Bag Party Releases Instinctively Yours Pheromone Attractant

Brown Bag Party today released their custom blended pheromone attractant Domestic Diva’s Instinctively Yours. "The best thing about Domestic Diva’s Instinctively Yours is that it becomes You when you wear it so it's different for everyone. Try it and you'll find out!" - February 27, 2011 - Brown Bag Party Inc.

CPX Interactive Debuts New 'Operating System' Messaging

CPX Interactive Debuts New 'Operating System' Messaging

Global Online Ad Network Leverages 'OS' Analogy to Describe Market Position - February 26, 2011 - CPXi

AddressTwo Accepting Entries for Bootstrap Battle 2011

Startup businesses can compete to win over $15,000 in prizes. - February 26, 2011 - AddressTwo

6-Figure Breakthrough Summit, February 28 – March 4, 2011

Trailblazing Entrepreneurs Who Have Created 6 and 7 Figure Businesses Gather for 5 Days to Teach and Train Other Women Methods and Strategies That Increase Income and Improve Quality of Life. - February 26, 2011 - Revenue Breakthrough

Indianapolis Attorney Joan Champagne Featured in New Book

Indianapolis Attorney Joan Champagne Featured in New Book

Indianapolis attorney, Joan E. Champagne, of White and Champagne law firm, featured in new book entitled Single.Women.Entrepreneurs. - February 25, 2011 - White and Champagne

Mobile Gift Cards Increase Gift Card Sales for Small Businesses

Small businesses gaining an edge with new technology. - February 25, 2011 - Smart Transaction Systems

“Successgenomics” System is Given Away Free by 24 DNAiFounders

“Successgenomics, world’s first Wealth, Health, and Success creation system or tool is based on the human genome. It’s the last science for Wealth, Health, and Success creation,” says 24 DNA Co-founder Bob Ainuu Afamasaga. - February 25, 2011 - DNA Alphabet

Marketest Launches Its Start-Up Business Competition

Market research experts launch new competition for UK Businesses - February 25, 2011 - Marketest (Netetude UK Ltd)

Avenida Legal to Offer Online Trademark Registration Services in the United States and in Spanish

Avenida Legal, an online legal document preparation service, will immediately begin offering trademark registration services in Spanish throughout the United States. Now, Hispanic entrepreneurs and businesses throughout the world that wish to register or protect their trademark, logo or trade name... - February 25, 2011 - Avenida Legal, LLC

$42,000 Give-Away for Small Businesses – Sponsored by IdeaCafe & Amsterdam Printing

Idea Café in association with AmsterdamPrinting.com today kicks off a $42,000 contest give-away. The contest invites businesses to answer a single question for a chance to win promotional merchandise or free online advertising for their company. - February 24, 2011 - DevStart, Inc.

Influential Business Circle Launches in Australia

According to Nick Rao, Founder of Influential Business Circle, “Some of the biggest business deals and multimillion dollar investments in Australia and South East Asia, in the next 10 years, are going to be made by Influential Business Circle’s Elite and Private Club... - February 24, 2011 - Influential Business Circle

Auggie Brings Modern, Chic Design to Bedding for Babies and Kids

Auggie Brings Modern, Chic Design to Bedding for Babies and Kids

Auggie -- a new line of 100% cotton mix-and-match sheets, duvets, and decorative pillows - has just the right amount of sophisticated charm, bold color, and modern patterns. Not pastel-y old-fashion nor loud and aggressively modern, Auggie is style for babies and kids that won’t make the modern adult wince. Auggie, a name inspired from the parent company Augustina, introduces a fresh approach to bedding for kids of any age. - February 23, 2011 - Auggie

Announcing Business Darlings, a New Online Magazine for Virtual Entrepreneurs

Business Darlings provides news, tips & education for new and potential Virtual Business owners. - February 23, 2011 - Business Darlings

California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce Takes the Lead in Promoting Funding Roadmap Cloud Technology to Advance Members' Ability to Access Capital

California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce and Unismart Capital Software Inc partner in promoting Funding Roadmap's cloud-based business planning platform to help members get organized and easily create compliant state-of-the-art presentations to investors and lenders. - February 23, 2011 - Unismart Capital Software, Inc.

VJ Affiliates Choose EGASS

VJ Affiliates Choose EGASS

Network Media Services is extremely proud to announce that online gaming operator, VJ Affiliates has chosen the EGASS affiliate management solution to power its’ online affiliate program Vera & John. VJ Affiliates will offer its affiliate program through the vjaffiliates.com brand name... - February 22, 2011 - Network Media Services Ltd

CPX Interactive Transitions Advisors to Board Members

CPX Interactive Transitions Advisors to Board Members

Global Online Ad Network Names Three World Class Entrepreneurs to Newly Formed Board of Directors - February 22, 2011 - CPXi

Award Winning Entrepreneur Elected on the Board of Directors of ACCE

Amanda Collucci, Founder and CEO of Clean4Me Inc., is being elected on the Board of Director for ACCE (Association of Chinese Canadian Entrepreneurs) and appoint as VP of Communication and Publicity. Markham, Ontario, Amanda Collucci founded Clean4Me Inc, a cleaning service company achieve amazing... - February 22, 2011 - Clean4Me Inc.

TempWorks Promotes Rich Petersen Amid Boom in Staffing Software and Payroll Funding Sales

TempWorks Promotes Rich Petersen Amid Boom in Staffing Software and Payroll Funding Sales

If there is still a recession going on, you wouldn't know it looking at the results of newly promoted Regional VP, Rich Peteresen, of TempWorks Software. - February 21, 2011 - TempWorks Software

FocalPoint Business Coaching Wins "Best in Class" as Franchisees Vote on Training and Support

FocalPoint Business Coaching Wins "Best in Class" as Franchisees Vote on Training and Support

Focalpoint Business Coaching, powered by Brian Tracy has won "Best in Class" award again. An independent survey showed that their Coaches and Consultants are very happy being part of the FocalPoint and Brian Tracy team. - February 21, 2011 - FocalPoint Business Coaching Inc

The 6 Figure Wedding Business Summit Provides Free Training for Wedding Professionals

Stephanie and Jeff Padovani of BookMoreBrides.com are hosting the 6 Figure Wedding Business Summit, a free online event for wedding business professionals who want to learn how to build a six figure wedding business. - February 20, 2011 - Book More Brides

Uniastrum Bank Hosts Open Workshop for Small and Midsized Business Community

The workshop, entitled “Quick and Easy Credit: Financial Support for SME Business,” was held at Uniastrum’s banking center on Krasnodar Street, Moscow. Specialists from Uniastrum and Moscow’s Small Enterprise Credit Assistance Fund were on hand to answer questions. - February 20, 2011 - Uniastrum Bank

FocalPoint Coaching Claims Coveted "Best in Category" Spot in 2011 Franchise Business Review Franchise 50

FocalPoint Coaching Claims Coveted "Best in Category" Spot in 2011 Franchise Business Review Franchise 50

FocalPoint Business Coaching is recognized again as Best in Category by it's Franchisees. The industry eagerly awaits this annual poll, as it is an independent report card and a useful planning tool. - February 18, 2011 - FocalPoint Business Coaching Inc

Excalibur Technology Named to Top 100 Managed Service Provider Companies in the World by MSPmentor

Excalibur Technology Named to Top 100 Managed Service Provider Companies in the World by MSPmentor

Scott Cummings, founder and CEO of Excalibur Technology formally announced that Excalibur Technology was named one of the top 100 Managed Services Provider (MSP) companies in the world by MSPmentor, a company that is an expert in grading the services that computer support companies... - February 17, 2011 - ExcalTech (Excalibur Technology Corp.)

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