Bizzia Small Business will be going away and merging with some of the content at EveryJoe starting tomorrow, so I wanted to bid you all a fond farewell since I will not be writing here any more. You can still find me several other places online, give me a shout out on Twitter sometime I’m @Linetteg there. I’d love to hear from you.

You can also stop by and visit me at one of my other blogs. Mostly I blog about parties and entertaining, with a little kid’s stuff thrown in for fun. So, if you like parties or kids (and …read more

Struggling lender CIT Group made headlines when it announced a little more than a month ago that it would extend the contract of CEO Jeffrey Peek until September 2, 2010. Today, the company, a commercial lender that gives funding to around 1 million small and medium-sized businesses, announced that Peek will resign from his post as chief executive at the end of the year.
The news comes two weeks after the company announced a massive restructuring plan that will most likely involve either a pre-packaged bankruptcy or an enormous debt swap effort in order to get the lender back on its feet …read more

One thing that many entrepreneurs do when they are starting a business is to use their personal credit get the ball rolling. While this may be the only way to get started, it is important to realize that it is vital that your business have its own credit as well. You want to make sure that your business is building up credit in its own right, so that you can eventually get the loans you need for your business on the credit worthiness of your business.
Keeping business separate from personal credit
You want to be able to protect your personal finances …read more

Implementing social media as part of a small business online presence plan is important because it helps you grow your ability to reach your target audience. Having an affective social media plan in place, means that you have incorporated specific things like online networking and communications into your plan.
The image above depicts some of the social networks that you can participate on. To help you develop your social media plan successfully, I want to share a few suggestions for you to implement:

Research social media websites to see if you can find groups that will allow you connect with similar business …read more

We often look at titans of business and wonder how they got to where they are today. And, indeed, it really is interesting when you begin to look at entrepreneurs and study them. For the most part, many entrepreneurs started out as surprisingly…ordinary…people. OnStartups offers these 12 interesting facts about entrepreneurs:

The average median age of company founders when they started their current company is 40.
95.1% have bachelor degrees, and 47% have advanced degrees.
Less than 1% have extremely rich or extremely poor backgrounds. They are mostly somewhere in the middle.
15.2% have siblings that started a business previously.
69.9% are married when they …read more

It appears as though some small business owners are beginning to feel more optimistic about the economy.

Some of the nation’s small banks may end up with access to TARP.

The world of business has been a bit rocked by the recent recession. Many small businesses and home businesses have been especially hard hit. But, are you desperate enough to try The Bar? According to the video below, the world of The Bar provides an opportunity for you to create cash flow. It’s a business “opportunity” for you to make money using the Internet. Indeed, you can even set up your own business based on The Bar, getting people to work under you in “levels”. The more they make, and the more levels below you, the more you make. I …read more

Could you be the next Martha Stewart or Steven Jobs? According to Linette Gerlach over at bizzia Small Business, Mindset is Important to your Business. I agree, but I want to take it a step further. Your mindset will determine your success in every area of your life. For you as a job seeker, I believe it is paramount to you successfully navigating the turbulent waters of the hiring process.
If you are looking for a new job, and you don’t think you will find one, you will still be looking while you sit in that mindset. I write about this …read more

Recently, some sectors have been benefiting from economic stimulus efforts. The housing and automobile industries have been the main recipients of economic stimulus money, and programs from tax credits for first time homebuyers to Cash for Clunkers have been helping demand. However, with economic stimulus programs coming to an end, it looks as though supply and demand could make a comeback.
This has been one of the worries for the economy. As stimulus efforts come to a close, it will become increasingly difficult to keep things running for some businesses. Additionally, banks have started lending a little bit more. But what …read more