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Businesswire | April 17, 2023

Pipedrive, the easy and effective sales CRM for small businesses, today announced that strong user reviews have earned Pipedrive a gold medal in the Lead Management Data Quadrant 2023 by SoftwareReviews, the in-depth source of buyer data and insights for the business software market. Pipedrive won the SoftwareReviews’ Lead Management Quadrant 2023 with a score of 8.9/10. Across all evaluated Lead Management products, Pipedrive received top scores for ease of data integrati...

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HRB Tax Group, Inc. | October 14, 2021

H&R Block today announced the launch of a free, new online business course for aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners, as part of Kauffman FastTrac®. Taught by Block Advisors small business tax professionals, up to 60 initial participants will learn information, tips, exercises, and tools to help think about their business idea before it is brought to life. The four free online entrepreneurship course offerings will run Nov. 1, 2021 through Jan. 3, 2022 and are a...

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Amazon | April 28, 2021

Amazon introduced the Intellectual Property Accelerator (IP Accelerator) in Canada today, making it simpler and less expensive for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to secure trademarks, protect their brands, and deal with infringing goods both in Amazon's shops and throughout the marketplace. Available to every brand selling in Amazon’s markets, IP Accelerator directly links Canadian SMB owners with a selected network of local law firms charging discounted, pre-n...

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Biz2Credit | July 15, 2021

According to the latest Biz2Credit Small Business Lending IndexTM, small business loan approval percentages at big banks ($10 billion+ in assets) increased slightly from 13.5% in May to 13.6% in June 2021, while approvals at small banks increased from 18.7% in May to 18.9%. The total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 850,000 in June, while the unemployment rate increased by one-tenth of a percentage point to 5.9%, according to data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statis...