BizSugar.com › User › lyceum › Upcoming

Small businesses with 50 to 99 full time employees must offer affordable health insurance to employees and their dependents by January 1, 2016.
Small businesses also need to file new IRS tax forms on the same January 1 date. Those that don’t have the staff, know-how, or time to do the work may see Read More

Endurance International Group this morning announced it will acquire all the stock of email marketing company, Constant Contact. The price for Constant Contact’s stock will be $32 per share, making the value of the deal $1.1 billion.
Together, as a combined group, they will serve more than 5 mil Read More

U.S.-based small businesses experienced an increase in borrowing in September compared to a downwardly modified reading of 135.6 in August, and rose by 11 percent over last year, Reuters reported.
The Thomson Reuters/PayNet Small Business Lending Index rose to 140.4 in September from the previous Read More

The logistics space is just about to heat up.
On-demand transportation company Uber and eCommerce giant Amazon have launched their own courier services to deliver packages. With two big brands entering the logistics domain, it could mark the beginning of an all new freelance delivery industry. Read More

Running an eCommerce business isn’t easy. Even if you list products through popular platforms like Amazon or eBay, there’s so much that goes into the logistical side of running such a company.
Rob Wray, founder of eCommerce automation company Whitebox said in a phone interview with Small Business Read More

When a CEO slashes his own salary by 93 percent and uses the money to raise the minimum salary of all employees to at least $70,000, it is bound to make headlines.
And that’s exactly what happened when Dan Price, founder and co-owner of Gravity Payments, made the big announcement earlier this year Read More

Halloween is almost here and with it is the likely onslaught of marketing aimed at converting customers in a way that stands out but is still in keeping with the season.
This year, Target is celebrating Halloween with a series of YouTube interactive videos and a mobile app that helps trick-or-trea Read More

As stated in “The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment That Energizes Everyone” the mission of the book is two-fold. The first “is to show that work can be a source of fulfillment, joy and happiness.”
The second is to show that creating happy human beings leads to a better business.
Soun Read More

Steve Jobs, the movie about the late entrepreneur behind Apple, bombed at the box office in its first weekend of release. And critics’ reviews have been mixed. But the movie may be best remembered for is one scene in particular, where Jobs sheds some light on what it’s like being an entrepreneur.
Read More

Running a business means you have to constantly adapt. You have to adapt to new technologies, busy seasons, sales slumps, and so much more.
In this week’s Small Business Trends Community News and Information Roundup, members of the small business community shared some tips and thoughts about chang Read More