Customer Success Story: Kingsun Auto

Day 2: National Small Business Week - Corinne’s Catfish Tells Us Why They Love It

For today’s post, we spoke with Orin Moore, owner and founder of Corinne’s Catfish in Lewisville, Texas. The On Deck Team found this story particularly inspiring – and we hope our readers to do.

Day 1: On Deck Honors National Small Business Week

In honor of National Small Business Week, we conducted a national campaign across our customer base to find out what people love most about owning their own business. We received so many wonderful entries and are excited to start sharing them with you.

Main Street: Why Do You Love Being A Small Business Owner?

We think every small business starts with a great story. That's why, in honor of National Small Business Week, we're asking Main Street business owners to tell us theirs.

Photo Journal: Our Finovate Demo

We had a very successful 7 minutes at our Finvoate demo! Below are a few shots of the team during the presentation.

On Deck @ Finovate - Live Demo Today!

After months of preparation, we’re very excited to report today we will be conducting a live demonstration of our latest technology innovation at Finovate in San Francisco.   Alongside the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO), we’ll be showing a real-time example of how third parties and other organizations can now use our platform to efficiently and effectively lend to the small business market.

Why There's Not Much Sizzle In Two Burger Chains' IPO Plans

Can two also-ran burger chains that struggled through the recession win over Wall Street investors? We'll soon find out, as fast-food franchisor CKE Restaurants -- corporate parent of both Carl's Jr. and Hardee's -- recently filed to go public, seeking roughly $100 million and applying for the stock...

No room for weenies

No use complaining Keep up won’t you? There’s no room for weenies in the global micro enterprise community. My hapless and hopeless UK agent, Tony Robinson OBE, sent me a press clipping of what Serena Williams said after winning the Madrid Open last week. He’s obsessed by how Ser...

Creating Google Alerts Directly in Google Analytics

A few weeks back I wrote about the powerful new metrics that small business owners can glean from the new Social reports within Google Analytics. And since that post, even more neat features have been released to help business owners learn more about not only what’s happening on their site, but what’s happening off of it, as well.

How Ads on Your Site Can Affect SEO (Video)

Your search rankings could be suffering if there are a number of advertisements above the content on your website. ...

Nominations Are Open for the Small Business Influencer Awards!

Does a special person or company come to mind when you think of someone or something important in the world of small business?  Perhaps you think of a client of yours.  Or maybe a favorite vendor or supplier, or a software app that has transformed your small business or made it more profitable.  Or perhaps you think of a favorite journalist who covers issues important to small businesses.