Google for Small Businesses
October 4, 2011 | By: Next Level Funding Admin
Don’t be scared – Google is trying to make it easier for business users. You can track your friends, check-in, list your business and gain customer feedback. Whether you need gmail, maps, location tracking – Google wants to hear from users what they need to operate their small business.
Don’t be afraid of Google.
Social Media Policies
September 28, 2011 | By: Next Level Funding Admin
If you run a small business, every second counts. When your employees are distracted, business is lost. Not only that what happens when an employee bad mouths your business on social media? Some companies are still trying to figure out how they can limit what their employees say about work online without running afoul of the law.
Companies grapple with social media policies.
Startup company hires Autistic workers
September 20, 2011 | By: Next Level Funding Admin
Small businesses pay attention. You need skilled, highly focused workers, then take a page from Aspirtech in Highland Park, IL. Aspirtech, a non-profit business, specializes in finding software bugs by harnessing the talents of young adults with autism. Traits that make great software testers — intense focus, comfort with repetition, memory for detail — also happen to be characteristics of autism.
Startup company hires Autistic workers.
Auto Industry Rising
September 14, 2011 | By: Next Level Funding Admin
Competition is picking up in the auto industry. Nissan predicts that it will only increase in the next year. In high demand auto supply parts to get those cars off the line. Nissan expects to produce about 13 million cars in the next year.
Nissan predicts where the auto market is headed.
Bank Mortgages
September 6, 2011 | By: Next Level Funding Admin
Happy with your bank loan? Thought not. Get ready for the storm. A lawsuit targeted at Bank of America (BAC), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Goldman Sachs (GS) and Deutsche Bank (DB) and others is coming. America’s biggest banks failed to check the health of mortgages before they securitized them and sold them to investors at the height of the housing bubble.
Outraged at banks over mortgages? Don’t stop there.
Grim Picture
September 3, 2011 | By: Next Level Funding Admin
Large companies, not small businesses are likely to have the upper hand for some time. This coming Monday marks the third consecutive Labor Day with an unemployment rate topping 9% and 14 million Americans are still looking for work. The average unemployed worker has been jobless for five months, and the government announced that the economy added no jobs in August.
On Labor Day, a grim picture for workers.
JPMorgan & BOA to suspend late fees
August 30, 2011 | By: Next Level Funding Admin
Anyone affected by Hurricane Irene may see some relief from their lending institutions this week. JPMorgan and Bank of America won’t charge people in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut for late payments of credit cards, business and consumer loans, or overdraft-related fees from today through Sept. 4 to help customers with their cash flow funding.
JPMorgan, Wells Fargo Waive Fees for Customers Post-Irene.
Big Storm Means Big Business
August 27, 2011 | By: Next Level Funding Admin
Some small business owners are fretting over the damage Hurricane Irene may cause, but many others in the disaster cleanup business are gearing up for increased opportunities. Many of these companies could see a couple million dollars worth of business in the storm’s aftermath.
Big storm is big business for small companies.
How to Sell Online
August 24, 2011 | By: Next Level Funding Admin
Having trouble entering the world of retail online. Joan Broughton of the National Retail Federation’s Shop.org offers tips for building your business on the web. Whether it’s through e-commerce or shopping blogs, Joan has some inexpensive ideas to grow your business online.
Growing your Small Business.
Credit Score
August 13, 2011 | By: Next Level Funding Admin
Contrary to the catchy commercials a lot ot the credit scores aren’t free and sometimes they are inaccurate. An artificially high credit score can cost you. Applying to loans can cost you time and application fees, you might settle for a high interest rate or not apply for a loan at all. New legislation mandates that lenders have to send you a copy of your credit score if they turn you down. For more information about your credit score, see the article below.
The Truth About Credit Scores.
