Oil giant BP suffered another blow today after Moody’s credit rating agency downgraded the company’s credit rating by three notches, from A2 to Aa2. The downgrade follows similar moves from the two other major international credit ratings agencies, Fitch and Standard & Poor’s, who also downgraded the company‘s rating. In a statement today, Moody’s said
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For those of you who are new SBSM readers & subscribers, here’s a list of noteworthy posts you probably missed from one year ago. I try to put together a post like this each month to introduce new readers to old content that might be worth reading. Creative Small Business Marketing, Episode 4 Small Business SEO: Costs, Expectations &…
Good news for local business owners in the UK: GetListed.org has launched a beta version specifically for the UK market. GetListed.org is a terrific tool that helps small business owners find and claim their listings on the primary local search engines. As David Mihm’s blog post explains , the UK beta version of GetListed works with four engines —…
There’s some pretty neat changes happening around here and I’m very excited about this decision. You see I’ve been wanting to pursue a road in life that is helping more people than just myself, and thankfully I’m now able to do this. This is a bittersweet post. Small Business Branding (SBB) has been a part of my
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This infographic by GE and Pentagram looks a hundreds of hospitals across the country, on 27 different performance metrics. Usually, you trust that your local hospital is a competent, well-run place where you can go to get skilled treatment. But this infographic, produced by GE and Lisa Strausfeld at Pentagram , punctures that myth with cold, hard data. The…
The Obama administration has received a lot of flack over the past several weeks for its timid approach to the BP oil disaster. On May 27, the President hinted in a speech that he would turn up the pressure on BP. And now, weeks later, Obama is finally defending his response to what he calls “the worst environmental disaster…
Though Sony owned the last two video game console generations, they’re having trouble with the PS3. The Nintendo Wii introduced motion sensing and sold incredibly well, Microsoft ‘s Xbox 360 has the best online experience and the innovative controller-less Kinect , and Sony’s PS3 is…lagging. But a host of announcements today at the E3 conference in Los Angeles shows…
The inspiring lecture series tackles the unfolding oil-spill disaster. TED recently launched TEDx , a program for independently organized events that has usually centered on individual locales–TEDxVienna, TEDxTehran, and TEDxCalgary, for example. But on June 28th, TEDx is tackling the BP Gulf Spill: TEDxOilSpill , in Washington, DC, will feature renewable energy and ocean experts, including oceanographer Sylvia Earle,…
If you run a small business, chances are pretty good that you rely heavily on word-of-mouth to grow your business. Whether it’s online reviews or recommendations from happy customers to their friends, having good things about your business spread as far as possible is a key to long-term success. Yahoo has published a study that exists largely to promote…
Sandra Yancey, founder and CEO of the international networking organization, eWomenNetwork, recently shared some interesting findings from a study her organization recently conducted. When asked what the number one concern was in their businesses, here are the top three answers from women business owners: Marking and promoting myself and making sure that people know I exist Understanding how what…