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Welcome to Thomas Insights — every day, we publish the latest news and analysis to keep our readers up to date on what’s happening in industry. Sign up here to get the day’s top stories delivered straight to your inbox. Cash flow is critical for small businesses. To flourish, small businesses need funding that allows them to develop innovative new products and gets them to market.  Here is a run-down on the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) small business loans, including how they work, who is eligible, and how best to apply. We’ll also address the pros and cons of…

The Giving Coast SRQ DAILY WEDNESDAY PHILANTHROPY EDITION WEDNESDAY NOV 16, 2022 | BY BARBIE HEIT Pictured: Thirty adults, the maximum number allowed, participated in Saturday’s contest. Photo courtesy of Rise and Nyes.Rise & Nye’s, the local coffee and ice cream shop run by people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, hosted its second ice cream eating championship on November 12th in front of the shop at 1534 State St. in downtown Sarasota.”The Fall 2022 Edition of Rise & Nye’s Great Ice Cream Eating Championship was a giant success and a big scoop of fun, too,” according to Beaver Shriver, co-founder of…

St. Petersburg-based Paradise Advertising & Marketing Inc., celebrating 20 years in business this year, has promoted Chief Strategy Officer Rudy Webb to the role of president. According to a news release, Webb has been with the firm, which specializes in tourism and hospitality marketing, for 14 years, starting as an account manager. He was promoted to vice president of client services before becoming chief strategy officer. As Paradise’s president, the release states, Webb will work closely with CEO Barbara Karasek and COO Tony Karasek, the company’s co-owners. “We are fortunate to have a homegrown president,” Barbara Karasek states in the…

Despite being down three starters and playing 10 minutes of ugly basketball, the UConn men’s basketball team took down Buffalo 84-64 at the XL Center on Tuesday night. The 3-0 Huskies struggled to get going offensively but relied on Tristen Newton, who posted the 12th triple-double in program history, along with key bench minutes from Joey Calcaterra and Donovan Clingan to tame the Bulls. Newton’s triple-double was the Huskies’ first triple double since Daniel Hamilton in 2015. The East Carolina transfer scored 22 points with 11 assists and 10 boards, sealing the deal with two rebounds in the game’s final…

Creating an effective marketing plan is essential for any business, no matter how big or small. Without a plan in place, you’re likely to waste time and money on marketing efforts that don’t produce results. From setting objectives and identifying your target audience to allocating your budget and choosing the right channels, there are a number of important factors to consider when putting together a marketing plan. However, with so many resources available, it can be difficult to know where to start. To help you get the most out of your marketing efforts, we’ve put together a list of useful…

GERARD Johnson, Trinidad and Tobago’s candidate for the position of president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), has already created history.“This is the first time in the history of the IDB that Caribbean is pushing a candidate for the top job,” said Robert Le Hunte, former commercial banker and minister of public utilities, who is now employed as an executive director at the IDB.Le Hunte told Express Business on Monday that the five member states of the Caribbean constituency—Barbados, Jamaica, The Bahamas, Guyana and T&T—all support Johnson’s candidacy.He said the T&T team supporting Johnson’s candidacy is working closely with the…

A serial entrepreneur, Shristi Sharma, like every other woman in the country, was deeply affected by the Nirbhaya incident and wanted to innovate for women’s safety.“I had heard about companies like Leaf Wearables and Electro Shoe making products for safety. But they were only providing SOS services that were not entirely feasible if a woman was being attacked. Also, not all women carry pepper sprays,” she says.Srishti SharmaAlong with an R&D team, Srishti started working on Shakti, a wearable that could protect a woman physically, especially when she is threatened with rape, domestic violence, or is eve-teased, where a SOS…

GRAND RAPIDS — Rende Progress Capital, a small business lender to companies owned by entrepreneurs of color, will host a networking event Thursday that’s designed to introduce minority-owned businesses to one another and prospective new customers. The BIPOC Vendor Pop Up event — scheduled for 4-9 p.m. Thursday at the Goei Center at 818 Butterworth St. SW in Grand Rapids, will showcase nearly 50 vendors from a range of industries, including food services, digital marketing, construction and industrial design. John Hendershot COURTESY PHOTO “We want to showcase some of our customers that we’ve worked with and introduce other business owners…

“We’re all TV preachers now!” I was laughing with some of my colleagues. Whether or not you were virus-screened regularly as 2020 and COVID-19 hit us hard, most churches were thrust into a love/hate relationship with video screens of all sorts. If a device had a screen, churches were scrambling for ways to beam their services onto it. We were suddenly tossed into the deep end of the video pool. Many churches spent big bucks for equipment. Almost all churches spent some bucks. And we all spent a lot of time. Live-streaming is complicated. Even recording and posting later brought…

Publishers often express concerns about the programmatic open market, but Bloomberg Media took a more decisive step recently. The company said it would stop serving open-market third-party programmatic display advertising on its website and mobile app when the new year begins. Publishers, advertisers and ad-tech players should pay attention to this development because it validates concerns and signals where the rest of the supply side is heading: Publishers are going to move away from the programmatic open market and double down on direct sales capabilities. Bloomberg cited the user experience and brand safety concerns as the main driver of its…