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Welcome to this week's edition of STRATiCOM's Small Business Weekly Update newsletter. We monitor numerous news feeds, and summarize the important stories for our network of business partners and clients.
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Cisco Systems Inc. predicts in a new white paper that traffic over the World Wide Web will quintuple by the end of 2013, driven by a surge in video traffic.
(June 10, 2009, Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal) |
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It's revenge of the silent Twitter users. After a Harvard Business School study made headlines last week showing 10% of Twitter users account for 90% of Twitter content, another survey emerged today echoing those findings. HubSpot, a Cambridge, Massachusetts startup crunched the numbers and has released a report called the June 2009 State of the Twittersphere with some startling findings.
The in-depth study followed 4.5 million users over a nine-month span, as compared to the HBS study, which tracked 300,000 users. While Twitter is 10 million users strong and growing, the HubSpot study shows "55.5 percent of Twitter users are not following anyone...52.7 percent of Twitter users have no followers...and 54.9 percent have never tweeted."
(June 10, 2009, digiday:DAILY) |
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For entrepreneurs hoping to land start-up capital from angel investors, here's what two recent studies found: Don't get carried away when you pitch your product because the investors may lose interest faster than you can say "almost unlimited market."
(June 10, 2009, The New York Times) |
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No one knows when the economic recovery will begin, but many small-business owners are getting ready for it. They're marketing, reworking business models and looking at possible real estate deals. Some are even hiring on the expectation an upturn is not far off.
(June 13, 2009, Associated Press) |
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The Small Business Administration will start accepting applications Monday for its America's Recovery Capital (ARC) program. The ARC loans guarantee up to $35,000 to viable small businesses with immediate financial hardships. The loans are intended to "keep their doors open until they get back on track," according to a statement Monday by the SBA.
(June 15,2009, Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal) |
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New Client Announcement: FlexShift
Software for Procurement and Management of Shift Workers
FlexShift is a comprehensive employee shift scheduling software that also helps businesses manage their Staffing Firms. It connects businesses seeking immediate temporary helps for general labor, industrial, hospitality, healthcare, office, administrative, etc. with Staffing Firms for efficient delivery of services. You can learn more about it at www.FlexShift.com.
FlexShift is moving past the product development phase and is relying on STRATiCOM to develop and implement its strategic marketing plan. |
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