The Small Business United Blog

Week Three Winners: Love a Local Business Sacramento

by Monica Appelbe

We’ve seen an outpouring of love for small business in our Love a Local Business Sacramento grant competition with more than 500 nominations placed! Fans of Sacramento businesses have placed nominations for their favorites, and each week we’ve randomly selected three $500 cash grant winners. Our week three grant winners include a consignment shop, a bread bakery and a wine bar. Please join me in congratulating French Cuff Consignment, The Bread Shop and L Wine Bar…

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Make a Referral Week

by Chris Kim

Our friend John Jantsch from Duct Tape Marketing has declared the week of March 8-12 “Make a Referral Week“! There are multiple elements which encourage people to tell the world about their favorite business (a kindred spirit to our own Love a Local Business campaign). John’s goal is to create 1,000 referrals this week!…

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Ten Top Funding Sources for Startups

by Marty Zwilling

Money to build the business is the number one challenge for most startups. Don’t believe the urban myth that you can sketch your idea on a napkin, and people will throw money at you. In reality, there are multiple more productive approaches you should explore in getting your startup moving forward…

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Home Office Tax Time Tips

by Laura Messerschmitt

Believe it or not, it’s time to think about one of the two inevitable things in life - taxes! This can be a stressful time, particularly for small owner-run businesses…

We had posted a great summary of tax “Dos” and “Don’ts” for home-based businesses a while back on one of our web sites . It was so worthwhile that I thought it would be worth reposting here. So, here you go!

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Maria Luisa’s Gift Store Gets a Present from Her Customers

by Gretchen Harding

In February, fans showered their favorite businesses with love on Love ALocalBusiness.com. We received over 25,000 votes for their favorite businesses, and over 300 of those votes were fans in Nyack, New York, who shared why they love Maria Luisa Gifts & Accessories, including this one: “Everyone is very helpful and friendly. The clothes are fun and unique. I live in Nyack and I am happy to support my community’s store.” Deb. Thanks to Deb, Maria Luisa Gifts & Accessories has been selected the winner of our February Grand Prize Grant worth $35,000.

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Grow Your Business with a $30,000 Grant

by Gretchen Harding

Could a small business grant worth $30,000 be the seed you need to grow your business this spring?

After awarding $100,000 in grants in January & February, we’re extending the Love A Local Business grant competition for another month. In March, we’ll award a total of $50,000 in small business grants to 5 local businesses.

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Week Two Winners: Love a Local Business Sacramento

by Monica Appelbe

Sacramento loves its small businesses! Since we launched our Love a Local Business Sacramento grant competition, Sacramentans have placed more than 200 nominations for local businesses - that’s a lot of love. Today, we’re happy to announce our week two winners, who have each won $500 cash grants…

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Promising Signs for Small Business Recovery

by Cameron Schmidt

I have some exciting news — today we launched Intuit’s first-ever monthly Small Business Employment Index. The trends we see in the Index are promising. Small businesses are showing signs of a recovery with sustained growth in hiring.

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Week One Winners: Love a Local Business Sacramento

by Monica Appelbe

To honor local business in Intuit’s homestate capitol, we kicked off a month-long sweepstakes series specifically for small businesses in Sacramento last week, which will culminate in a free, two-day small business celebration we’re hosting in Midtown Sacramento on March 12 and 13…

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Want More Customers? Listen Up!

by Brent Leary

Have you ever received a tweet like the one below? I bet you have.  I bet most everybody on Twitter has, considering 50 million tweets get sent out each and every day. That’s a lot of stuff coming at us, and that’s just from Twitter, which has nowhere near Facebook’s 400 million members… who share 5 billion (with a “B”) pieces of content each week…

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