Posts tagged Small Business

Learn How to Market Your Business Online

Do you want to learn how to move your business online, turn web visitors into customers and/or build your presence on major social media channels?

We can help!

The NYC Business Solutions Queens Center is hosting a seminar next week to teach you how to effectively market your business online using social media and search engines.

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Perception Counts.

Via NY Daily News: Face-lift on tap for storm-torn Beach 116th St. in Rockaway

The city plans to pump $500,000 into a vital shopping strip in Rockaway in an effort to overhaul blighted and storm-torn storefronts.

NYC Small Business Services Commissioner Robert Walsh said various city agencies are pitching in with planters, benches and better lighting to freshen up the strip. 

“Perception counts,” said Walsh, who has worked with local merchants to push for additional sanitation clean-up crews and police presence in the area.

Walsh said his agency is also providing the fledgling local merchants association with a $75,000 grant to keep the momentum going.

NYCxDESIGNxLEARN with NYC Business Solutions

NYCxDESIGN, NYC’s inaugural citywide event to showcase and promote design of all disciplines, looks to create a platform for cultural and commercial opportunities, elevate established and emerging design practices and increase awareness of and appreciation for design by all audiences.

NYC Business Solutions is collaborating with NYCxDESIGN to offer courses in every borough during the 12 days of events, scheduled from May 10 - 21.

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Markowitz Hosts Tech Tutorial for Small Businesses (via Crain's New York)

New Year’s Resolution: Review Insurance Coverage

At the start of a new year, it’s important for small business owners to review their business and financial plans. Part of reviewing these plans includes making sure the business’ current insurance still fits the business’ current needs and risks.

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Shoot First, Aim Later: Not So Much When You're Scaling a Business (via Forbes)

Bronx group that serves South Asian immigrants to create worker coops with aid of city training program (via The Daily News)

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How Much Financing Do You Want?

It happens at least once a week: I’ll ask a business owner applying for a loan how much money he or she needs and I will get an answer like, “as much as you can get me.”

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NYC GOV: Business Recovery Zones and New Initiatives to Help Small Businesses Impacted by Hurricane Sandy

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Today, the City announced the creation of Business Recovery Zones and new initiatives to help small businesses impacted by Hurricane Sandy. Business Recovery Zone leaders will identify neighborhood-specific needs, coordinate action plans, organize City resources and be a central…