) September 6, 2009 -- BT Business and Google today announced an agreement to offer digital marketing services to small businesses. The alliance will involve BT Business becoming a Google AdWords™ Authorised Reseller.

Small businesses can now access Google's base of millions of UK users and receive professional, full-service AdWords account management, from account setup and activation to ongoing campaign monitoring and optimisation, through BT Business (http://business.bt.com/ ).

) October 25, 2009 -- According to research from BT Business, supported by the Design Council and Prince's Trust, small businesses at the forefront of technology adoption have been the least impacted by the recession, with those most reluctant to bring in new technology suffering the most. Companies with a positive attitude to technology adoption had a 69% better than average experience of the recession, whereas technology laggards suffered a 34% worse recession experience than the average.

) July 25, 2009 -- BT Business has launched a new web-based accounting application, to replace the complex software blighting smaller firms, forcing their employees to work longer hours.

) June 12, 2009 -- BT Business has launched a new service with Sage Pay to protect small businesses from online payment fraud. The new BT eShop service will include secure online payment processing tools from Sage Pay, the UK's largest independent Internet Payment Service Provider, to help businesses quickly set-up a secure online store and reduce the risk of fraud across all of their online transactions.

) February 10, 2009 -- Venda for Small Business, part of Venda, the market leader for eCommerce solutions, has linked with Webjam, the UK's answer to branded and white-label social publishing and community networks, to offer a combined platform for e-commerce and website publishing tools for small business enterprises. Webjam & Venda will integrate their respective products to provide an even more compelling toolset for a small business to build their online presence. The cross-distribution of the respective services will launch by the end of Q1 2009.

) July 9, 2009 -- With so many small businesses announcing bankruptcies and layoffs anything they can do to increase sales and lead captures in these tough economic times are proving invaluable.

UK Local Search Guide

With the major search engines investing millions of pounds in improving the Local Search experience, gathering new customers from online search results has now reached a major tipping point for local businesses.

) April 15, 2009 -- Wildfire Marketing Group (www.wildfiremarketinggroup.com) has announced it is offering 0% financing for their web design services to small businesses looking to grow their online presence.

Featured in major publications like Fortune Small Business, CNNMoney.com, Entrepreneur and The Tampa Tribune, Wildfire Marketing is a leading full-service marketing firm specializing in web design and Internet marketing.

) March 22, 2009 -- As many businesses in Somerset and Wiltshire within the UK struggle through the current economic conditions, one leading local web design company has developed a solution that could bring thousands of new customers their way.

James Burfield Consultancy Team

James Burfield Consultancy, of Midsomer Norton, Bath, UK, has created a new e-commerce package designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses in the area, which uses highly efficient design methods to produce fully functional online stores at very low cost.

) May 21, 2009 -- Small Business Trends LLC announced that it has acquired BizSugar.com (http://www.bizsugar.com), an online social media and content sharing website for small businesses and entrepreneurs. This acquisition is aligned with Small Business Trends' continued focus on serving small businesses and entrepreneurs, and the small business market as a whole.

) April 6, 2009 -- Doba (www.Doba.com), the Orem, UT technology company that provides a Web-based software platform which simplifies product sourcing by joining online retailers with wholesale distributors, has announced expansion of its partner program by signing with industry giants Web.com and GoDaddy.com. These signings came following a year in which the company posted record profits.

) July 28, 2009 -- Built and hosted by Innovectra Corporation using its next generation ActivImpact platform, Yellowone.com features a powerful keyword search application for Internet Yellow Pages, complete with local business profiles, online video, coupons, web site and e-mail links, interactive maps and much more. The Yellowone.com site provides on-line consumers with easy access to a national database of U.S. business listings, on-line classifieds, reverse lookup and Internet search tools.

) May 22, 2009 -- WhiteFence, the nation's leading online comparison-shopping marketplace for residential home services, today announced the addition of nationwide digital telephone company, Lingo, to its line up of over 400 home services providers.

WhiteFence helps consumers shop available home phone services and order online.

) October 20, 2009 -- Today's economic climate has put pressure on all businesses and made Internet marketing compulsory for home-based business owners, network marketers and Internet entrepreneurs. There are no exceptions; and though learning to use the Internet to expose products and services is mandatory, in this current day and age, it is not always a priority to most business owners.

) June 29, 2009 -- Canpages Inc., Canada's fastest growing local search company today announced the country's first voice-recognition business search application for the BlackBerry. Designed to help consumers find local businesses "hands-free" when they are on-the-go, the application enables users to speak their search request into the phone rather than type it and view the results on the screen. Additionally, Canpages has made significant enhancements to its similar mobile search application for the iPhone--also a Canadian first--which it launched earlier this year.

Along with voice-recognition capabilities, Canpages' BlackBerry and iPhone applications enable users to:

) April 14, 2009 -- JFL Marketing, Inc., publishers of the Community Connection Yellow Pages in the Greater Boston area, Maine and New Hampshire for the past 18 years announced today that the company is launching all 22 of its community phone directories online in a search engine friendly format at www.jflyellowpages.com. The company has selected Internet Yellow Pages platform leader, Innovectra, as its strategic software services partner. In partnership with Innovectra, the www.jflyellowpages.com site will be powered by ActivImpact--the next generation Internet Yellow Pages and local search solution for directory publishers.

) October 2, 2009 -- INPUT, the leading authority on government business, today released its list of the top 10 federal set-aside opportunities for contractors for fiscal year 2010. The new top 10 report details more than $16 billion in federal spending that has been set aside for small, 8(a), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Businesses and other socio-economically disadvantaged small businesses. This is a significant 400 percent increase in value over the top set-aside opportunities tracked in last year's report.

) May 8, 2009 -- In today's busy, fast-paced world, the popularity of online social networking is exploding. In fact, more than one billion pieces of content - photos, notes, and links - are shared each week on Facebook. TDS Telecommunications Corp. (TDS™), a local communications company, advises people to use good judgment and to give serious consideration to the type of information they post publicly.

TDS Telecommunications Corp.

) October 6, 2009 -- New Web Design and SEO Company (Top Rank Web Designs) is building and giving away 250 free websites to the first 250 small businesses that use their SEO Consultant Services. However, in doing so they have angered rivals and received a number of malicious phone calls and threats of legal action from a few of their local competitors demanding they withdraw their offer to build these 250 free websites for small, local UK businesses. Their local rivals accuse them of trying to dominate and destroy the local Web Design industry and also accuse them of aggressive marketing tactics designed to put them all out of business.

) August 7, 2009 -- VastVision announces their new South Florida division as a web design and internet marketing company and it is the single source for fully integrated, efficient, and affordable expert web services such as innovative web design and development; internet marketing; and comprehensive web consulting.

) June 4, 2009 -- The SEO Site, http://the-seo-site.com, is proud to announce the release of The eGuide, a free internet how-to manual that shows people the way to set up their own online businesses or websites, and how to get traffic to those sites.

Internet Marketing Guide

) October 22, 2008 -- Dave Saunders of http://www.yoursocialbrand.com is proud to announce a new solution for small business owners seeking the best ways to leverage the Internet to grow their business and maintain relationships with their existing clients. This online training system teaches how to use free social media sites to engage the market place for local, regional and even national exposure. A veteran of the Internet industry, Dave Saunders has been helping people leverage concepts like personal branding and personal networking to engage and create relationships that lead the business growth.

) October 8, 2008 -- Changes in consumer behaviors are presenting new risks and opportunities for businesses as small as pizza shops and as large as Fortune 500 companies.

) March 17, 2009 -- The Design People, Inc., a leading provider of small business website solutions, today announced the official launch of its newest division, imFORZA - a full service internet marketing agency.  Based on a foundation of time-tested and proven internet marketing strategies, this newly branded agency offers effective services for online businesses who want to maximize the ROI from their website investment.

) July 28, 2009 -- iNetGlobal (www.inetglobal.com) continues to ignite the Internet Marketing community with its signature list of Internet marketing products and services.

iNetGlobal's Steve Renner

iNetGlobal provides targeted online services that feature tools for businesses to effectively promote and market their products, brands, news and information.

) November 2, 2009 -- OrangeSoda, a leading local online marketing company that specializes in securing high search rankings in search engines such as Google, announced today it has been has been selected as one of the "Emerging Elite" in the MountainWest Capital Networks Utah 100 awards.

OrangeSoda Logo

) August 5, 2009 -- Jivox, the leading online video advertising and marketing platform for local businesses, today announced a number of video marketing tools that help small businesses use online video to market their products and services.

) March 30, 2009 -- RFB Communications Group, Inc.
(http://www.rfbcommunications.com), a 10-year old public relations agency that provides services designed to drive sales inquiries and support client brand development, has announced the addition of a social media platform.

) July 9, 2009 -- Atlanta-based full-service agency DENMARK (the agency) has launched an integrated campaign for Cbeyond, an Atlanta-based communications and IT services provider to small businesses and Forbes magazine's 6th fastest growing technology company in America. The new campaign, "Customers Count" features Cbeyond customers discussing how Cbeyond has helped their small business grow.

) April 23, 2009 -- On Thursday, May 14, at 1 PM EDT, Search Marketing industry veteran Disa Johnson will present a free webcast for small businesses that will cover the basics of search marketing -- from how to use search engine optimization (SEO) so that search engines find a site, to ways to measure the results of online marketing.

According to a recent survey from Nielsen Online and WebVisible, Inc. local businesses and consumers are too often failing to connect, despite billions of local consumer dollars up for grabs. A full 82% of consumers use search to find local businesses -- yet less than half of all small businesses have a website. And only 9% of small businesses are satisfied with their online marketing efforts.

) September 29, 2009 -- Internet marketing agency Parallel Path Corporation announced today the immediate availability of its small business advertising solution, Aha!Local™ Online Listing and Optimization service for local businesses throughout the country. Aha!Local enables local businesses to distribute detailed information about their business to virtually every website where their prospects might be looking for their products and services. With Aha!Local Advanced, the company also optimizes this data for high placement on the search engine results pages, and backs up their work with a Page One Guarantee.

) February 24, 2010 -- Web Site Marketing firm VisibleU releases its ten Internet marketing optimization tips for small businesses in 2010. The presentation was first made to small businesses on the January 2010 Verio Webinar on Internet Marketing Tips.

Holistic interent marketing is in for 2010

) June 5, 2009 -- Managed hosting and data centre services provider iomart Group plc has today reported a 45% per cent rise in hosting services revenues to £11.8M (£8.1M 2008) for the financial year 2008/09, and a post tax profit of £11.2M from total operations (£0.4M 2008)

Both of iomart's main operating units contributed to the strong growth, with Easyspace increasing its revenues 14% to £7.2M (£6.3M 2008), and the group's Managed Hosting business, iomart Hosting, growing its revenues by 155% to £4.6M (£1.8M 2008).

) March 27, 2009 -- An innovative Internet Marketing Agency, ilikesem.com, unveils its web site to companies who need to improve their online presence. ilikesem.com has launched a new interactive web site with a portfolio of professional Internet marketing services at affordable rates.

Internet Marketing Agency - ilikesem.com

) September 25, 2009 -- ATD-Austin, a leading independent directory publisher for nearly 40 years, announced today the company has launched a new Internet Yellow Pages web site at www.theredphonebook.com and www.atd-austin.com through Internet directory software pioneer, Innovectra Corporation.

) February 4, 2009 -- A new social network for groups and organizations called Homeingle.com, has just launched nationwide.

Homeingle.com

"Homeingle (home + mingle) takes the social features of networks like Facebook and turns them into tools for organizations," says CEO and co-founder Bob Armbrister. "Homeingle helps organizations achieve their goals by allowing them to create groups, manage events, post news, communicate with members, expand their online visibility, and get things done."

) April 18, 2009 -- Cactus Sky Communications, Inc., Florida's premier eMail Marketing agency, has launched its new web site, specifically designed to provide information and solutions for businesses to help them engage customers online, as well as build relationships with them.

Today over 78% of shoppers have purchased through email and 59%of email recipients have bought in retail stores as a result of a merchant email. With the national financial crises, online couponing is booming and 73% of consumers have used an online coupon for an online purchase; 59% have redeemed an online coupon in a store.

) September 9, 2008 -- Radius Online, an interactive marketing agency specializing in local online marketing services for small businesses, today announced the launch of its new Local Online Marketing program for small businesses. The Local Online Marketing program provides small businesses with a website, local search engine optimization, local directory submission and management for $129 dollars per month.

Radius Online | Local Online Marketing for Small Business

) February 3, 2009 -- ClickSaya Communications Inc, a British Columbian, Canadian Company is pleased to announced its launch of the communication tool of tomorrow - a (not so) little Click-Me web-based button that will transform the way we communicate with our friends, loved ones or customers.    

) October 20, 2008 -- According to a recent survey conducted by online payroll service SurePayroll, the majority of small business owners believe there is a clear business value in popular social networking Web sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

When SurePayroll asked small business owners if they believe online social networking has a place in the business world, 55% said yes. What's more, the survey indicates that one out of every five of the small business owners polled had actually obtained at least one new customer as a direct result of using social media.

) September 16, 2009 -- In a first for the residential broadband market, AAPT today announced 12 hours of off-peak UNLIMITED downloads from 8pm to 8am.

Perfect for families who find their broadband service slowed because they've exceeded their monthly cap or, worse still, have found themselves paying for additional usage, AAPT's Unlimited 8-8 Plan is available bundled with a home phone service for just $89.95 per month*.

Other features include 5GB of downloads per month in peak periods, superfast ADSL2+ broadband with speeds up to 20 Mbps and $50 worth of voice calls with line rental included.