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Venmo Small Business Grant Now Accepting Applications to Support Emerging and Small Businesses

Venmo Small Business Grant Now Accepting Applications to Support Emerging and Small Businesses

Initiative Provides Selected Venmo Business Profile Users with Grants and Mentoring to Help Grow Their Businesses

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) today announced the second Venmo Small Business Grant, a program for small and emerging businesses providing financial grants and mentorship for 20 Venmo business profile customers. The selected businesses will each receive $10,000 in expenses, such as rent, or to help digitize and promote their businesses.

In addition to providing a financial grant, the Venmo Small Business Grant

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It’s more than posting cute pictures.

One of the keys to small-business marketing is building name and brand awareness. Everyone talks about social media today, but it’s more than posting pictures and snappy quotes. Social media marketing is all about gaining a voice in a very crowded communication space, no matter what your business, industry or market segment is. The key rule of thumb is to use your content to convert searchers, readers and fans into buyers by driving them to your website where they can take your call-to-action. (CTA)

Content marketing is a marketing strategy used to attract, engage and retain an audience by creating

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How AI is Transforming SEO for Small Businesses

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Once upon a time, the SEO game was all about keywords and backlinks. The more you have of each, the higher your site will climb on the search engine results page. But boy, how the times have changed! Today, we’re standing on the brink of an AI revolution that’s flipping the script on SEO as we know it.

Indeed, AI is whipping up a storm of transformations in the SEO world, and small businesses are finding themselves right at the heart of this tempest. In the fast-paced, ever-evolving realm of SEO, the

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Protein Sparing Chai Ice Pops

It’s funny how there are many recipes that my family enjoys weekly but I have never written recipes for them. These protein sparing chai ice pops are one of them. My son Kai begs for these ice pops all the time!

They are so easy to make, we always have them in the freezer. I love that I have an easy protein-packed treat for my kids (and myself!) when hunger strikes!

HOW TO MAKE PROTEIN SPARING CHAI ICE POPS

To make Kai’s protein sparing chai ice pops, I used Equip vanilla Prime Protein powder!

It works great for making recipes

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Small businesses struggling to make rent: report

Rising rents are taking their toll on small-business owners nationwide, according to a new report.

More than half of small-business owners polled by the small business network Alignable reported their rent was higher in June than it was six months ago. Some noted their rents have increased by 20%.

Alignable’s June Small Business Rent Report is based on responses from 4,801 randomly selected small-business owners polled between June 5-27, along with data from 18 months of previous surveys.

Close to 40 percent of small business owners struggled to make their payments on time, tying April for the highest delinquency rate

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Small business gets creative and personal to combat rising inflation

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The latest Main Street quarterly report from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, covering the first quarter of 2023, indicates price increases have slowed and employment numbers have gradually improved over the past year.AFP/Getty Images

A bookstore was a retirement plan for Cole Davidson and his partner Stephen. Then, during the pandemic, they saw a lot of similar dreams get put on hold.

“We decided that if it’s something we wanted to do,” Mr. Davidson says, “we shouldn’t put it off and we should just go for it.”

They planned for 18 months before

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The Power of Time – PHE America

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Dr. Aubrey Shaw [right] with her mentor, Dr. Sharon Stoll

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People with physical disabilities hold limited positions as scholars, teachers, or leaders in physical education, recreation, and sports. Perhaps the reason is that the field is flooded with able-bodied people who think they know best. But do they? Michael Oliver, imminent writer, and scholar argued that people with physical disabilities should be the only ones in the field of disability studies because they have a bodily experience with disabilities. The following five-part article series shares the perspective of a scholar in the field

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Revelstoke business wins Small Business BC Award, pitches to Dragons’ Den

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It’s been a busy few weeks for Jackie Rhind and her team at Ovry after she auditioned for Dragons’ Denwon a Small Business BC Award, and got married.

In April, local business, Ovry, was nominated for a Small Business BC award for Best Youth Entrepreneur, which it won. The ceremony was held last Friday (June 2) in Vancouver, but Rhind and his team couldn’t attend because they were busy in Revelstoke with her wedding the following day. Rhind spoke about the award and what it means to the business and her pitch to Dragon’s Den which happened a few