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FORT MYERS, Fla. (Press Release – January 11, 2012) – Entrepreneurs creating their own small business public relations pitches for the media sometimes need a little help seeing the opportunity.

UnderstandingMarketing.com, an online resource that offers small business marketing and public relations advice, announces it has started “PITCH” – Publicity Ideas That Create Headlines.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (Press Release – December 9, 2011) – AnyMeeting, the completely free web conferencing and webinar service, today announced its integration into the Google Apps Marketplace.

Now, AnyMeeting users with a Google or Google Apps account will have a single sign-on solution for scheduling or immediately starting an online meeting.

Additionally, AnyMeeting can automatically access the user’s Google contacts, where they can be selected for meeting invite distribution.

New York and Cleveland, OH (Press Release – October 25, 2011) – The 100 finalists of the 2011 Small Business Influencer initiative were honored in New York City on September 13, 2011 at the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway.

Out of 520 applicants, the finalists, called “Champions,” were chosen by community voting as well as a panel of small-business judges.

Washington, D.C. (Press Release – October 7, 2011) – With the U.S. Department of Labor today announcing employment figures remained static at 9.1 percent, small business advocates intensified their push for Congress to take action to protect employers from tax and regulatory policies that are leading to rising costs for small businesses and subsequently hurting their ability to hire more workers.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Press Release – Sept. 27, 2011) - FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) is injecting $1 million into the small business economy of the United States with its support of Small Business Saturday 2011.  The commitment, announced today, will send tens of thousands of additional consumers into Main Street merchants on November 26, helping to drive holiday sales for local businesses at a time when customer demand remains among their biggest challenges.

(PRESS RELEASE – June 19, 2011) – Capital Payments, a leading electronic payment solutions provider, announced recently that the company has entered into a partnership with GoSmallBiz, a knowledge resource for small businesses, to offer access to working capital solutions as well as sharing content and information related to running and growing a small business.

New York, New York and Cleveland, Ohio (PRESS RELEASE – May 31, 2011) – Small Business Trends and SmallBizTechnology.com announce the first annual Small Business Influencers 2011 initiative.

The Small Business Influencer honorees will be the top 100 news outlets, corporations, journalists, leaders, and gurus selected through an online nomination process that takes place from May 25 through July 8, 2011.

Thereafter a voting and judging process will culminate in announcement of the Top 100 Small Business Influencers in mid-August, 2011.

Menlo Park, California (PRESS RELEASE – May 20, 2011) – Optimism among small businesses is rising, according to research from Robert Half’s quarterly Professional Employment Report.

Business confidence among companies with 20 to 49 employees has risen 8 points over the past year.

Cherry Hill, New Jersey and Portland, Maine (PRESS RELEASE – May 5, 2011) – TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank, launched its first-ever, company-wide small business outreach campaign, during which teams of local lending officers and banking employees will disperse throughout communities from Maine to Florida with the goal of reaching nearly 25,000 companies with the message that TD Bank is lending to small business.

The month-long campaign will mark TD Bank’s largest-ever coordinated effort targeting the small business community.

Washington (PRESS RELEASE – April 13, 2011) - The National Small Business Association (NSBA) released the 2011 Small Business Taxation Survey.

Released one week prior to the April 18 tax deadline, this survey provides detailed insight on how America’s small-business community is being impacted by federal taxes.

In short: complexity and inconsistency with the tax code are depleting small businesses of their time and money merely so they can handle the administration of federal taxes.