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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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RVOvernights.com Expands Services for Small Business Owners

ANNADALE, NJ / ACCESSWIRE / July 21, 2023 / , a startup travel company connecting small businesses with RVers, has released a new initiative for their hosts. Because the company has a strong focus on being an advocate for small businesses and seeks to utilize this to differentiate themselves from competitors, RV Overnights has launched an expanded program designed to serve as a mutually beneficial experience for both the RVers (members) and the small businesses (hosts).

RVOvernights.com, Friday, July 21, 2023, Press release picture

“We built our program from the viewpoint of a small business owner,” says co-founder Rob Case. “The member and host experiences both benefits from

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5 Common Causes of Small Business Bankruptcy

Not everything that affects a business is controllable, but as a small business owner, there are several steps you can take to help avoid bankruptcy and ensure long-term success. Here are common causes of business bankruptcy and ways to help your business deal with them.

No entrepreneur plans to see their business in financial trouble or facing insolvency, but the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy reported 2,621 business bankruptcies in Canada in 2022 — up 35 per cent from 2021. That’s because running a small business means you’re affected by controllable factors and some beyond your control.

Having the

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Yao was given small business, northern development position by Smith

Published July 14, 2023 • 2 minute read

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UCP MLA Tany Yao speaks at his campaign launch party in Fort McMurray on Monday, March 25, 2019. Vincent McDermott/Fort McMurray Today/Postmedia Network

Tany Yao has been named parliamentary secretary for small business and northern development. Premier Danielle Smith appointed Yao to the position on Thursday, and named seven other MLAs to parliamentary secretary posts.

Yao will report to Matt Jones, Alberta’s minister of jobs, economy and trade.

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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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Inflation Data, JPMorgan and Delta Earnings, and More to Watch This Week

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Second-quarter earnings season begins this week with several large US banks set to report. The latest inflation data will be closely watched by investors and economists alike.

Citigroup
,

JPMorgan Chase
,

and

Wells Fargo

will be this week’s earnings highlights, all on Friday morning.

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Conagra Brands
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Delta Airlines
,

Fastenal
,

and

PepsiCo

are also scheduled to report on Thursday, followed by

BlackRock
,

State Street, and

UnitedHealth Group

on Friday.

The economic-data highlight of the week will be the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ consumer price index for June on Wednesday. Economists’ consensus

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Small Business Tech Roundup: Instagram Releases Its Twitter-Killer

Here are five things in tech that happened this week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?

1 – Threads – Instagram’s Twitter

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