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A new business advocacy group has launched in New Orleans — a city that three years out from Hurricane Katrina is still trying to entice all of its former residents to move back home. Called “504ward,” a play on the New Orleans’ area code of 504, the group’s main goal is to help the city attract and retain a key worker and consumer constituency: the 21-to-35-year-old age group.
Ask most people what they like about working with small marketing firms and you’ll hear answers such as “their personal approach” or “I’m not just a customer number to them” or “I get to work with the heavy hitters instead of some trainee just out of school.” Yes, those are the things they say when things are going well.
Turmoil on Wall Street may have slowed lending, but it hasn’t stalled innovation among Washington-area startups. Just days after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy last month and the Federal Reserve bailed out American International Group, Reston, Va.-based BrandClik officially opened its doors.
The world of online business communication has introduced two industry-changing elements for small business: more customers and more competitors. Circa 1999, you were ahead of the competition by simply having a Web site to preview your service or products. By 2004, Web transactions were the norm, and convenience was the king.
Small and medium-sized businesses are demanding the same level of quality and functionality for their IT Web infrastructure as larger enterprise IT organizations. Many SMB organizations are implementing their own application delivery optimization solutions; however, others prefer to outsource their application delivery optimization infrastructure to managed hosting providers.