Tag: Small Business
Continuing To Share Gratitude this November
By Dixie Hall, President of Mission Hills BID and Owner of DixiePops Many, many thanks to the 31 restaurant owners, chefs, caterers, cheese mongers, brewers, baristas, pizza makers, bakers, and ice cream, gelato and popsicle makers who participated on Wednesday, October 12 and made Taste Mission Hills yet again a successful showcase of what Mission […]
Visitors to Reinvigorated Morena District Discovering Exciting New Shopping and Dining
Participating businesses give shoppers a chance at thousands in prizes during free June “Explore Morena” raffle promotion. It’s easy to win in the Morena District’s “Explore Morena” prize raffle from June 1-30. All people have to do is visit any of the dozens of businesses and drop in a business card or entry form into […]
Obama’s Proposed Reorganization – Help or Hindrance?
President Barak Obama has proposed a wholesale reorganization of several government agencies that deal with various aspects of business and trade. The plan would merge business functions of the Commerce Department with the Export-Import Bank, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the Small Business Administration and the Trade and Development […]
Fran Cannon, MBA ACM, Interviewed on KUSI’s San Diego People
For Immediate Release… “Growing Your Business in 2012” Episode on 1.8.2012 10 a.m. San Diego,CA 1.8.2012- (Press Release) San Diego People’s “Growing Your Business In 2012” episode hosted by Sandra Maas will feature Ruben Barrales, President & CEO of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, Business Attorney Michael D. Curran from Curran & Curran […]
A ‘Letter from a Business Owner’
Recently one of my colleagues forwarded an email to me with a “letter” supposedly from an actual small business owner to his employees. Being cautious about forwarded material, I decided to look into it more closely and found that this “letter” has been around since mid-2009 with several different names attached to it. But just […]
Reviewing the Small Business Lending Fund
The numbers are in, the “winners” have been chosen, and in this case there doesn’t even seem to be much left to shout about. After the usual hype and ballyhoo, President Obama’s much vaunted Small Business Lending Fund has ended with what Thomas K. Brown described in iStockAnalyst.com as “a thud.” Out of a total […]
Is Unemployment Un-American?
Unemployment has become a major topic of concern and debate here in America. My worry is not about the people that use unemployment to get a new job or better yet use the opportunity to start a business. My fear is creating a sub-class of people that expect to be taken care of, with little […]
Small Business Lending Fund Gains Ground – At End
The Small Business Lending Fund, one of the major provisions of the Small Business Jobs Act that President Obama signed into law a year ago, seems to have finally picked up some steam. Since September 1, the U.S. Treasury Department has announced a total of 111 banks have received money from the fund to use […]
New Numbers on Banks and Lending
The latest numbers are out for the second quarter, and some of it is mildly encouraging – but only mildly. According to an FDIC release, banks overall reported $28.8 billion in aggregate profits for the second quarter of 2011, a $7.9 billion increase over the same period in 2010. It was also the eighth straight […]
