Category: News - Part 2

Fulfillment, Not Family: Why Women Business Owners Really Start Up, And What’s Still In Their Way

“There’s no such thing as perfect work-life balance.” That’s how Darla Beggs, National Association of Women Business Owners’ National Chair, tells it. “I think some women business owners feel frustrated by this conversation because they feel trapped into chasing someone else’s view of success.” But for most, an outsider’s opinion is no longer the measuring…

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Your Massive Guide to Small Business Marketing on a Budget

You likely have an online presence, and perhaps a brick and mortar location too, and you want to establish online visibility for best results and so people can find you. It’s pretty important to consider a variety of factors, many of which you may not have heard about before, in order to successfully build your…

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MasterCard now allows any business to enable P2P payments

Fortune | May 20, 2015 Payments giant MasterCard is the latest company to get into the person-to-person payments business, joining Facebook, PayPal, and rival Visa. The company launched MasterCard Send, a service that allows people to link their debit card accounts online or on a phone and transfer money to anyone in the U.S. using…

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Payment players PayPal and Square strike gold in financing small businesses

San Francisco Business Times | May 15, 2015 Payment companies, including PayPal and Square, are finding it quite lucrative to leverage the data they collect on clients’ sales and related information to extend financing to small businesses. PayPal Working Capital — a unit of eBay’s (NASDAQ: EBAY) PayPal, which is in the process of splitting…

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