small business Articles

What constitutes a small business varies widely around the world. Small businesses are normally privately owned corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships. What constitutes “small” in terms of government support and tax policy varies by country and by industry, ranging from fewer than 15 employees under the Australian Fair Work Act 2009, 50 employees according to the definition used by the European Union, and fewer than 500 employees to qualify for many U.S. Small Busines...

Online Video Explosion - Local Video Production and Marketing for Businesses

SuperForum II: Local Video Explosion - This is the Kelsey Group's ILM:08 conference session that we were most excited about covering.  This is a great panel session with several leaders in local online video marketing solutions. Brad Inman, Chairman and Founder of TurnHere is up ...

Custom Video Production With Professional Voiceover for SMBs - New From TurnHere

TurnHere, Inc., a leading Internet video production and advertising company, announced the launch of a premium voiceover video package designed for small and local businesses. Combining custom onsite video footage with professional voiceover, TurnHere's new turnkey solution lets businesses of all sizes leverage the power ...

SpotRunner Laying Off 115 People; Looking for Strategic Options for Local Search Group

SpotRunner, the heavily backed online and TV ad agency based in Los Angeles, is laying off about 115 people from its company, which is 30 percent of staff, we have learned and confirmed by the company. Also, the company is closing down its local search ...

Free Holiday Web Video Advertising Tips and Discounts From Jivox

Jivox, the online video advertising service that helps small and medium-sized businesses reach local customers, today announced a promotion that will assist Main Street businesses reach more customers with their holiday ad campaigns. Between today and December 31, 2008, advertisers that spend $500 with Jivox ...

Boston Area Businesses Have Opportunity for Free Internet Video Advertising From Local Search Mass. and NH (PRWeb Via Yahoo! News)

Local Search Massachusetts & NH announced today that they are in search of Boston Area Giraffes. According to the Company's web site, a "giraffe" is a person with an intense passion for their work or life in general. As a small business owner, he/she will ...

Online Video Advertising Reported for Less (but Still Strong) Growth

Online video advertising isn't recession-proof from growth, according to David Hallerman, Senior Analyst for eMarketer and author of their recently released report, Video Advertising Online: Spending and Pricing. But while there's considerably less growth for video advertising this year than originally anticipated (Down from eMarketer's ...

Brightcove's New Video Platform Available Now - Brightcove 3

Back in July, we posted that Brightcove had launched a new version of their online video publishing platform in beta to selected customers.  Today, they have made the platform, "Brightcove 3" available to all.  The new platform is much improved from an SEO standpoint.  Amoung ...

Internet Video Ad Campaign Helps Young Americans Do Their "DUTY"

Thought it would be worthwhile showing you a unique online video marketing campaign titled, "Time for a Change."

Jivox Launches New Online Video Ad Platform for SMBs

Jivox, the online video advertising service that helps small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) reach local customers, today announced that Jivox AdSlate 3.0, the latest version of its online video ad platform, is now live. Jivox combines a self-service video ad creation tool, proprietary targeting technology, ...

Marketplace for Professional Online Videographers and Filmmakers

VideoPros announced the beta launch of its online video service and Web site, VideoPros.com. VideoPros is a venue to find and contact video professionals. Featuring a sophisticated professional videographer search, VideoPros services individuals, small businesses, corporations and industries needing professional video production and online distribution. ...

Adjusting The Local Picture - The Online Video Opportunity

There is no question that online video is hot. YouTube has standardized and popularized it while broadband penetration has enabled it. Users love it, advertisers are starting to love it more and more, and now search engines love it too. Video's attractiveness as an ad ...

Mixing Video SEO and Social Marketing – The Blendtec Interview

One of the more well-known success stories with online video marketing is Blentec - a small company that took what people would think to be a standard generic product (a blender) and make the most entertaining and engaging video content on the web today. ReelSEO's ...

Say Goodbye To YellowPages - Hello To Online Video

Borrell and Associates released a new report today about the future on Print Yellow Pages titled, "Say Goodbye to Yellow Pages." with some interesting predictions regarding where revenue will migrate.  According to the report, they estimates that the yellow pages industry will loose almost 40% ...

VideoJug and Kiva Partner for Web Video Philanthropy

America's fascination with online videos keeps getting bigger everyday. But, instead of a viral commercial masked as a video of a girl making an incredible catch at a softball game, or online videos as political campaign tools, VideoJug is using their technology to do good. ...

Jivox Gains Momentum In Local Online Video Ad Market

Company reports rapid user growth from small businesses, including travel sites, financial and real estate services, transportation companies and restaurants; Jivox advertisers cite increase in traffic, self-service ad development and local audience targeting capabilities as key benefits of Jivox service Jivox, a self-service online video ...