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November 2, 2010

60% Small Business Entrepreneurs Interested in Clean Energy Legislation

Filed under: Small Business — Tags: , — Winson @ 8:21 AM

According to a survey by National Clean Fuels which was conducted nationwide during March and April of 2010 on small business owners, 61 percent of small business owners are in favor of clean energy legislation. The survey was based on interviews conducted with 800 owners of small businesses. The enacting clean energy legislation will strengthen economy of United States and it will also create new jobs with the help of small businesses. Around 58 percent of people those were surveyed think that the application of new energy policies will transform the economy. Those small business owners also want their business to be the part of it. African-American and Hispanic small-business owners are the highest and strong supporters of this bill.

In June 2009, the House of Representatives approved their version of a clean energy bill. Commercialization of cutting edge clean energy technologies by National Clean Fuels, Inc. (NACF). NACF is sharply developing alternative energy products and profitable relationships with client in a sector which is stepping up to compete in the energy industry.

November 1, 2010

Know About How Many SMB’s are Using IT Services : Microsoft Study

Filed under: Small Business — Tags: , , — Winson @ 6:10 AM

website monitoring serviceAs per Microsoft Corp global SMB IT and Hosted IT Index 2010 which studies how small and medium-sized businesses fared during the recession and how they use technology, SMBs are taking up cloud computing.

  • More than 40 percent of the small and medium-sized business respondents who used hosted or cloud technology expressed that they saw rise in revenue by 30 percent. Whereas, 90 percent of respondents who were not using hosted technology saw decrease in revenue.
  • There is an increase in awareness of hosted services, as 65 percent of SMBs are using hosted software to some extent and remaining 73 percent of SMBs have considered it when compared with just 44 percent in the 2008 Index.
  • SMBs are understanding the value of renting IT as a service. About 36 percent of them expressed that a pay-as-you-go model would be appealing.

When we consider the use of e-mail by SMBs, about 67 percent SMBs have on site, 29 percent of them have hosted and just 4 percent SMBs do not have. While coming to file sharing/collaboration, about 56 percent of the SMBs have on site, 23 percent have hosted and 21 percent SMBs do not have. When we see backup, 71 percent SMBs have on site, 22 percent have hosted, 7 percent do not have. While considering website, 49 percent of SMBS have on site, 39 percent have hosted and 12 percent do not have.

October 21, 2010

Small Businesses Showing Signs of Growth from Invoice Finance Industry

Filed under: Small Business — Tags: — Winson @ 3:27 AM

As per the quarterly Tiny Small Business Finance Barometer which was designed to gauge SME sentiment on several important company matters, about 54 percent of the SMEs from the British are planning to recruit many more people withing the upcoming 12 months and about 44 percent of them are expecting to expand their organization this year. This is a positive news from 2 finance trade reports. About 50 percent of the UK SMEs expressed that they want to increase the headcount this year.

As per the latest quarterly report released by the Asset Based Finance Association, there is an enhancement in total sales from businesses which are financed by asset-based finance. The customer product sales are at £49,371million. This has increased 8 percent from March of 2009.As per the ABFA, many of the British firms are expanding their horizons outside the UK to locate the new organization possibilities along with export invoice discounting. This showed a rise of 15 percent. About 33 percent of the respondents expressed cash flow is continuing to be their biggest organization problem for the upcoming year which has increased about 20 percent from the last quarter. Banks have not yet increased the lending and the late payments are continuing to make a big dent or else there would have been good money flow.

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October 15, 2010

eWin Marketing Focuses to Help Small Businesses Leverage Internet for Marketing

Filed under: Press — Tags: , , — Winson @ 7:40 AM

Released by: eWin Marketing

eWin Marketing is a specialist SEO (Search Engine Optimization) company focusing on small & emerging businesses looking for quality SEO services at affordable prices. eWin Marketing has been established by experienced SEO people with each key person having an experience of helping at least 300 websites get first page rankings on major search engines. eWin Marketing’s goal is to empower their clients to win online against their competition and dominate their markets.

eWin Marketing has a satisfied client base with more than 60% repeat client rate and has rated eWin Marketing services on an average of 4.9 out of 5 from 21 client reviews managed by a third party. Also, 100% of clients have opted to recommend eWin Marketing’s services to others, when asked by the same third party.eWin Marketing has helped small and emerging businesses in increasing their online business leads as well as sales and profits by providing various Internet marketing services like Organic Search Engine Optimization, Local Search Listings, Link Popularity Building & Social Media Optimization.

eWin Marketing has helped clients across Northern America & western European markets to achieve their web marketing objectives by providing affordable search engine optimization solutions.

eWin has streamlined and effective processes that deliver high quality services in a systematic way to keep their clients SEO investment low & stay ahead of their competitors.

For further details, please contact:
The Public Relations Manager,
eWin Marketing
GHMC No.1174,
Street #20,
Himayathnagar, Hyderabad,
Andhra Pradesh – 500 029, INDIA.
Email: sales@ewin-marketing.com
Website: http://ewin-marketing.com

About eWin Marketing:
eWin Marketing is established by experienced SEO people based in Hyderabad, India. Each key person in eWin’s team has at least 3 years experience in delivering SEO services to US/European markets. Be rest assured, their systems, people will ensure that working with eWin Marketing will be according to what their clients’ expect. In the past six months, they helped hundreds of websites get first page rankings within reasonable budgets and there by increase web traffic, online business leads as well as sales and profits.

October 13, 2010

Small Businesses Borrowing Dropped in May: Pay Net Index

Filed under: Small Business — Tags: , , — Winson @ 10:21 AM

As per the report based on PayNet, there was a drastic drop in the level of borrowings by small businesses in USA in the past 7 months. As per the Thomson Reuters/PayNet Small Business Lending Index which measures the overall volume of financing to small businesses in USA reported a drop of 5 percent from the previous month on a seasonally adjusted basis. It was the lowest reading since October. It was recorded as the fourth-lowest level. When compared with the previous year’s index, it was up by 9 percent in May.

  • There was a decrease in accounts in moderate deliquency or those which were behind by 30 days or more in May by 3.36 percent from 3.47 percent in April.
  • Accounts which were 90 days or more behind in payment or in severe delinquency also dropped to 1.11 percent in May from 1.21 percent.
  • The accounts which are behind 180 days or more or in default and also which are unlikely to ever get paid also declined to 0.91 percent of the total receivables in May from 0.94 percent during April.

Regardless, the regulatory overhauls in the US healthcare and finance industries are making it hard for the small businesses to estimate the costs of the future. This is resulting in holding back of spending by small businesses.

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