) November 14, 2008 -- Don’t suspend your marketing due to tightened cash flow. That's the advice from HRmarketer.com, the human resource industry's leading marketing services and software firm.

Despite an influx of liquidity from the federal government, many banks are not lending and leading venture capital firms like Sequoia Capital have advised their portfolio firms to dramatically cut back business spending. Yet, history has shown that businesses that continue to market their products and services during an economic downturn emerge ahead of their competition when things turn around.

) October 7, 2008 -- FastUpFront introduces a new technology that provides small business to qualify for unsecured cash advance loans. Traditionally, these loans were only available from the business's credit card processor, making these companies vulnerable to inflated costs, bad service and refusal. Through its new technology, FastUpFront provides businesses a new option for cash advances, which are an essential financial lifeline for many small to medium sized companies.

) September 17, 2008 -- SEO and The Credit Crunch, do they really go hand in hand? What is the first thing to be cut back on when a business finds itself struggling due to the national and international financial climate. A straw poll conducted by website marketing provider Servicewrap.net says it is advertising, and streamlining of budgets with regards to all elements of marketing and promotion.

) October 8, 2008 -- B2B marketing company Marketo today announced it signed 20 new customers in September, surpassing all prior company records in terms of deal size and volume. While the financial crisis is taking its toll across the nation, Marketo is thriving. The company's fast growth proves that even in uncertain times, companies need easy-to-buy solutions that align sales and marketing to drive revenue and increase return on marketing spend.

) October 20, 2008 -- Intermedia, the leading provider of collaboration and productivity SaaS solutions, today announces the immediate availability of its Dow Jones 10,000 program, which offers free account set up and one month of free service to any new hosted Exchange customers until the Dow closes above 10,000. Intermedia's special program comes in direct response to the pain businesses have recently experienced trying to secure funding or lines of credit for capital expenditures, such as new hardware and software used to manage and promote company growth.

) October 6, 2008 -- AspDotNetStorefront, and online commerce, continues to experience unprecedented growth, even in a tough economic time, as new merchants are signing up in record numbers. Existing merchant base also demonstrates continued investment in their e-business platforms leveraging our maintenance and product release updates. This continues to confirm that merchants are turning even more to online sales channels to grow their businesses in this tough economic time.

Web design in UK and e-commerce for small business is in high demand as online sales continue to command an increasing share of total sales made by businesses in UK. Whilst there is no shortage of web design businesses and ecommerce companies offering solutions to small businesses in UK, Quality web design and e-commerce services at an affordable price are either hard to find or too expensive and far exceed the budgeted expenditure of smaller businesses. Outsourcing web design and e-commerce development to offshore companies may seem viable and cost effective. However they often lead to long term problems as it is difficult to get support and timely response.

) April 13, 2009 -- The current recession has impacted everyone, but small businesses are among those most affected. With the launch of their new division, Twirlia.com, Tempo Creative hopes to make it easier for small businesses in the area to be able to afford necessary services such as web design.

Twirlia offers a range of services to small businesses, including web design, website maintenance, hosting, and shopping cart setup. In addition, Twirlia provides affordable marketing options, such as pay-per-click, social networking, search engine optimization, virtual spokesperson technology and email marketing.

) November 10, 2008 -- Restaurant owners are facing an unprecedented crisis in cash flow. The Restaurant Performance Index as compiled by the National Restaurant Association is at its lowest point in history. The index tracks indicators such as capital expenditures, customer traffic, sales volume and labor costs and points to a deteriorating situation across all 50 states. At the same time, the restaurants are being hard hit by the on-going credit crises. Many are being locked out of access to short-term loans essential for operations.

The Credit Crunch Crisis has badly hit most of the UK companies. In these tough times,one has to look for ways and means to conserve cash.This requires the availability of key accounting information.

) November 13, 2008 --
Getting paid is getting harder for many small businesses. In a sign that
may reflect the troubled economy, 22 million of the nation’s
smallest businesses are waiting for $1,500 in overdue payments each
month, creating a collective $33 billion strain on their cash flow.

While $1,500 in overdue payments may not be a big deal for some, it could be a make or break deal for the smallest of small businesses

) December 21, 2008 -- As part of an ongoing commitment to helping entrepreneurs succeed, Palo Alto Software today announces the inclusion of an electronic copy of the bestselling book The Plan-As-You-Go Business Plan in its 2009 release of Business Plan Pro.

The Plan-As-You-Go Business Plan is a great new addition to Business Plan Pro for 2009

) September 23, 2008 -- The world's financial market was rocked last week, share prices plummeted and global recession is a real possibility, all challenges that medreamSEO.com declare avoidable for those with a sound business mind and a level headed approach to what is possible, and not possible during a struggling period in the online business world.

) July 24, 2009 -- Website owners and bloggers who have been affected by the economic recession could be sitting on a welcome cash bonus, according to Siteredeemr.com.

Site Redeemr: Recycling the Web

Siteredeemr, who specialise in purchasing defunct websites and blogs, has revealed that the number of offers that they have made to buy websites have increased by 500% over the past month, with a 300% increase in the number of completed site purchases over the same period.

) October 9, 2008 -- With the credit crunch squeezing even tighter, we are all having to tighten up our belts to stay afloat. However, a recent spate of savvy consumers seem to be changing their spending habits online, not by making fewer purchases, but simply by using different means available on the internet to save as much money as possible.

Recent research has showed that although overall offline consumer spend is down, online spend is up and continues to rise month on month.

) 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.

) December 16, 2008 -- ColumbiaSoft, makers of the Document Locator document management system, announced it has seen a 16% increase in the number of customers using its software in 2008.

In these challenging economic times, more and more businesses are realizing that their intellectual capital is one of their greatest assets, and that greater document control can have a positive impact on the bottom line

) October 8, 2008 --
In the midst of financial uncertainty comes opportunity, and this month Stone
Edge Technologies is offering the Stone Edge Order Manager, a
leading order management system for small-to-medium retailers, at a
significantly reduced price. Through the end of October, Stone Edge
Technologies will extend a 20% discount to first-time buyers of the
Order Manager Standard, Plus POS, and Enterprise versions, and to
existing users who want to upgrade their software.

) July 29, 2009 -- Marketing agency NovaZoom, has been featured on TopSeos.com, the preeminent source for online marketing capabilities.

NovaZoom Logo

The marketing communications agency announced two weeks ago that it started a special program for small businesses offering discounts on all marketing services including online marketing.

) September 22, 2008 -- Daniel Robinson, of Bolton-based Vizcom Design Limited, says: “Despite the credit crunch and downturn in the economy, now is not the time for businesses to reduce their marketing budget and particularly their expenditure on search engine optimisation because research suggests that 75% of businesses use search engines in order to find their suppliers.”

“If anything, marketing spend should rise in an economic down turn because companies have to fight harder for a slice of the business that is available. Marketing and SEO can be key to helping some businesses to differentiate themselves from their competitors during a recession and win vital work to keep them going or even grow.”

) December 16, 2008 -- Aptela, the leading provider of Hosted Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions for Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs), announced today that the company was selected to participate in the Northern Virginia Technology Council's (NVTC's) Emerging Business and Technology Showcase. This event, which will be held in Herndon, VA on December 18, offers Washington D.C. area businesses the opportunity to hear from leading experts and meet with twenty local vendors, including Aptela, that deliver solutions to help small businesses obtain cost savings, improve efficiency and increase productivity - essential requirements to survive today's uncertain economic conditions.

) December 8, 2008 -- Everyone.net, a market leader in providing Software as a Service (SaaS) messaging for small business and service provider customers worldwide, demonstrates continued momentum as they announce their ten year anniversary. This anniversary marks a major benchmark for their 125,000 direct and indirect small and medium sized business customers. The company also announced the completion of a series of significant upgrades to the company's Silicon Valley data center in preparation for their growing SMB user base, which is estimated to triple in size over the next 36 months.

) 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

) November 3, 2008 -- During challenging economic times, small businesses go into survival mode, seeking ways to work smarter and save money. That reality continues to boost the financial performance of Wasp Barcode Technologies, which sells technology to help small businesses improve efficiency, reduce costs and drive productivity.

Wasp Barcode Technologies logo

) October 30, 2008 -- Marketing automation leader Marketo today announced its 100th Lead Management customer, achieving this accomplishment fewer than eight months since the product became available. Marketo's sophisticated yet easy-to-use marketing automation software helps marketing and sales teams collaborate on a single revenue cycle to increase productivity and unlock revenue, and the company's own success is proof that this approach is a catalyst for rapid revenue growth.

) 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.

) March 8, 2009 -- A significant portion of CXT Software's 2008 sales growth can be attributed to increasing market share in the Route and Distribution sectors of same-day transportation, primarily to the health care, pharmaceutical, office supply, retail and auto parts industries. Companies in these industries rely heavily on electronic communication of data directly between their enterprise systems and X Dispatch servers. In 2008, CXT Software significantly improved the ability of its X Dispatch product to integrate with various enterprise databases. Also contributing to sales growth is an increasing number of X Mobile applications being deployed for bar code scanning, signature capture, dynamic distribution and general tracking of packages and vehicles.

) April 13, 2009 -- Travis Fore, Senior Vice President for Sales & Service at domain name registration pioneer Network Solutions®, will be a featured panelist at the Sales Leadership Conference located at the Four Seasons in Las Vegas Tuesday, April 14. Mr. Fore will be participating in the panel on Sales 2.0 solutions.

Travis Fore, SVP of web solutions provider, Network Solutions

) May 26, 2009 -- Small business owners know that wasted time equals wasted money. Daniel Barnett wants to change all that with WORKetc, a web CRM software suite that combines several highly-useful business applications in a single web 2.0, SaaS suite.

WORKetc web CRM, projects and billing

) October 23, 2008 -- Digital Fuel®, the leader in IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions, today announced relief for enterprises that want to rapidly cut IT costs.

) December 19, 2008 -- Aspire Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of sales quoting software solutions for the global small and mid-markets, announced today that it has achieved Gold status with Sage Software's Development Partner program. The Gold Status, a new certification program offered by Sage Software, aims to provide Sage customers and business partners with a higher level of consistency, stability and confidence when implementing partner products.

) October 24, 2008 -- The producers of The Economic Report are pleased to announce that Heritage Web Solutions will be featured in an upcoming episode as part of the show's Business and Technology series on The Power of the Internet Supporting the 21st Century Business Environment.

The internet has revolutionized the ways businesses market themselves. It is essential for businesses, both large and small, to have an effective web presence. A company's website essentially serves as their electronic store front, communicating the company's identity to website visitors.

) 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.

) January 7, 2009 -- WANdisco, a leading provider of infrastructure software for replication, scalability and high availability, today announced the availability of the Subversion MultiSite Software Appliance. This virtual software appliance provides immediate, real and tangible benefits to organizations by minimizing ongoing maintenance and administration costs and dramatically reducing deployment time. A globally distributed IT organization can literally be up and running in minutes. Just download, turn it on, and it works.

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IPW New Jersey: The program enables the partners to lever the expertise, technology and skills related to InfoPro Worldwide.
The IPW Partner Program allows partners to overcome the problem of planning and budgeting for proficient resources to handle specific projects. It also makes it easier for the partners to build and showcase web, software and multimedia solutions, and focuses on addressing the unique needs of small and medium businesses.
The partnership helps partners to:
Grow & scale their business
Increase their profitability
Become more competitive in tough and competitive markets
Manage and plan capacity of resources and optimize on cost
Increase market and service bandwidth

) October 23, 2008 -- PayCycle, Inc, America's #1 online payroll service, today released the results of a proprietary survey that found 58% of small business owners do not feel the government is addressing their needs. Sixty-nine percent (69%) say they are not directly impacted by the credit squeeze because they don't need more credit, but 91% are still worried about the economy.

When it comes to economic recovery, nearly 3 out of 4 (74%) of small business owners believe the recovery will take 18 months or longer; 19% per cent believe a recovery could happen within 12 months and only 8% believe a recovery is six months away.

) November 25, 2008 -- OneWebHosting.com, a leading web hosting provider for small-to-medium sized businesses, today released 5 tips designed to aid small-to-mid-sized business owners weather the economic downturn. As the economy continues to sink, many business owners are struggling with how to survive. Despite the flailing economy, OneWebHosting.com is thriving.

) October 16, 2008 -- Capterra, a website that connects buyers and sellers of business software, has conducted a survey of its software vendors to determine the impact of the country's current financial turmoil on software buying patterns. Capterra looked at three factors: actual software sales, sales leads and website traffic.

More than 50 leading software vendors responded and the results are extremely positive.

) July 3, 2009 -- The Business Software Centre (TBSC), Software as a Service (SaaS) partner for software publishers, has been chosen to manage software sales on behalf of time-tracking software publisher Four Four Time Limited.

The software, the Four Four Time Project Timer, available in Single and Multi User editions, will be offered on a subscription-only basis and will be available exclusively in TBSC's Rentsoft™ service.

) January 6, 2009 -- SmartDraw.com, maker of SmartDraw, the software that helps you work smarter by communicating visually, has announced a free, three-part series of e-Courses entitled, "Recession Proof Your Business."

Our blog and our regular customer communication pieces strive to educate business people on ways to work smarter. The e-Courses are designed as a much more in-depth educational offering based on solving the most pressing issues that our customers - and all managers - are facing