• COUPONS
    Coupons.in – A search engine to get online coupons of various brands

    Coupons.in is a promotional website that offers free deals to online shoppers. It offers coupon codes and promotional deals for many websites such as Oyo, Shoppers Stop, Amazon.in, FabFurnish, Flipkart.com, Jabong.com, Flipkart, KFC, and their likes. They have tie-ups with many big players in the online retail industry. The question is how does a startup […]

  • ALL DEALS
    How You Use Document Templates – Survey Results

    A few weeks ago we did a survey here at Small Business Trends to find out what kinds of documents you typically print and which document templates you use. Just over 170 of you gave us some insights and a lot of good sources of templates and tools for printing. We’d like to share the […]

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    Win a Printer – Take The Marketing Materials Survey

    Would you like a shot at winning a new printer? Take our short survey. It’s just 5 minutes. We ask you to tell us what marketing templates, resources and tools you rely upon for creating in-house marketing materials. We’d like to know where YOU go for the best templates and how you use your printer […]

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    Groupon Introduces “Pages” Similar To Yelp – Sort Of

    Groupon seems to be taking a page from the Yelp playbook introducing Groupon Pages. The new feature is another effort by the company to move away from its online coupon origins by providing more comprehensive services to small businesses. New Groupon Pages do bear a superficial resemblance to online review site Yelp with basic information […]

  • ELECTRONICS
    Amazon Echo: Fun, But Not Very Useful – Yet

    Usefulness Functionality Price Summary Echo is a fun gadget that doubles as an audio speaker and an automated assistant to handle small tasks. While promising, today it doesn’t do enough to be meaningful as a productivity tool. How would you like to have your own administrative assistant to help you research information and compile simple […]

  • ELECTRONICS
    Soon You Can Have a Smartphone – With a Zoom Lens Attached

    Camera phones can be an important tool for small business owners. But have you ever wished your camera phone could work just a little better, eliminating the need to carry a professional camera with you?  Samsung is upping the game. The Korean company is introducing a smartphone camera hybrid that’s essentially like a phone with a […]

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    STARTUP STATISTICS – The Numbers You Need to Know

    We’ve collected these startup statistics for small businesses from a variety of sources. Last updated: October 23, 2016 GENERAL STARTUP STATISTICS 51 percent of owners of small businesses are 50-88 years old, 33 percent are 35-49 and only 16 percent are 35 years old and under. 69 percent of U.S. entrepreneurs start their businesses at […]

  • NEWS
    Chipotle Uses Drones to Deliver – Burritos? (Watch)

    If you find yourself near Virginia Tech and you see something flying above, it might not be a bird or a plane. It might actually be a burrito. Chipotle has partnered with Project Wing of subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, to test drone delivery of the tasty Mexican menu item. The companies chose Virginia […]

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    2016 Pinterest Trends – What’s Next This Year?

    Does Pinterest still matter? Once it was the dominant visual social media network. But now Instagram and a host of trendier platforms, like Periscope and Snapchat, have solidly dethroned Pinterest’s claim as the visual network du jour. But don’t count it out of your social media strategy just yet. Pinterest, like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, remains an important space for businesses to “nurture, maintain […]