Small Business United Blog

Lessons for the Working Woman

by Holly Perez

Intuit and the Intuit Financial Freedom Foundation sponsored the Women’s Conference in Long Beach, Calif. During the two-day event, we distributed thousands of journals and made personal connections with women…

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What Every Small Business Can Learn from Miley Cyrus

by Christen Wegner

A couple of weeks ago, Miley Cyrus deleted her Twitter account. And what happened? The Internet and tweens, girls aged 9-14, everywhere freaked.

Web sites clamored over why she left, and dozens of other tweens vowed to follow suit. Many were sad, many were happy, and many questioned why it was news.

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Love A Local Business Week 11 Winners

by Gretchen Harding

This week’s featured winner highlights the fact that small business owners can, and should, nominate themselves. We sure hope you love what you do and recognize how important your business is to your local economy. This week’s featured Love a Local Business winner also helps us celebrate all the husband and wife teams who love - well, most of the time - working with each other:

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Love A Local Business Week 8 Winners

by Gretchen Harding

As of this week, we’ve given away $40,000 in Intuit Growth Grants to 40 local businesses nominated by their customers, friends, family members, employees and owners.  We still have 15 Intuit Growth Grants to award over the next 3 weeks.  
This week’s featured Love a Local Business winner had 39 fan nominations:
 

Drinks Over Dearborn in Chicago, IL
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Love A Local Business Week 7 Winners

by Gretchen Harding

As of this week, we’ve given away $35,000 in Intuit Growth Grants to 35 local businesses nominated by their customers, friends, family members, employees and owners.  We still have 20 Intuit Growth Grants to award over the next 4 weeks.  
This week’s featured winner, whose nomination exemplifies the Love a Local Business theme is:
Cypress Wellness ...

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Love A Local Business Week 6 Winners

by Gretchen Harding

As of this week, we’ve given away $30,000 in Intuit Growth Grants to 30 local businesses nominated by their fans.  We’re also sharing the big news - we’re extending the Love A  Local Business program and will be giving away 25 MORE Intuit Growth Grants over the next 5 weeks. 
This week’s winners* are:

Revolution ...

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Love A Local Business Winners

by Gretchen Harding

Since late July, we’ve given away $55,000 in Intuit Growth Grants to 55 local businesses nominated by their fans: customers, friends, family members, employees and owners. We still have 5 Intuit Growth Grants to award next week.

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Love A Local Business Week 5 Winners

by Gretchen Harding

Thousands of fans have put their favorite businesses on the Love A Local Business map, but only 5 can win each week.   
This week’s Love A Local Business Winners* are:
Accessories, Etc.  in Long Valley, NJ
“Creative and talented, and always coming up with new and innovative designs.”
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Four Season Tofu ...

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Go Local Strategies to Grow Your Business

by Gretchen Harding

Three successful young entrepreneurs shared their success stories with “go local” business growth strategies.  If you missed the Young Entrepreneur Cram Session last week, check out some highlights below - then watch and learn for yourself.

Carl Sanderfoot, co-owner of Taurus Restaurant Group started New York Deli in Appleton, WI, five years ago.  He noticed that they were sharing ...

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Love A Local Business Week 4 Winners

by Gretchen Harding

 The 25,000 residents of Greer, SC continue to fill the Love A Local Business map with hearts - and generate winners.  For the third week in a row, Greer shows up on the winners list:  
This week’s Love A Local Business Winners* are:
Café Mundo in Greer, SC 
“Café Mundo allows us to give back ...

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