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Meet the Panel: Online Marketing for Small Business
Meet our panel for next week’s Online Marketing for Small Business seminar at Mechanics’ Institute Library. Please visit http://pcvmarketing.eventbrite.com/ for more information and to register. We hope to see you there! Danielle Petersen PCV Advisor and curator of this panel, Danielle Petersen is a results driven leader with over 17 years of proven merchandising and marketing expertise […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources •
Are you running an effective online marketing campaign?
Most entrepreneurs know that their website and social media sites are crucial pieces of the marketing puzzle when it comes to their brand. But it’s not enough to just have these pieces, one must use these pieces to turn visitors into customers and page views into sales. Take the following case study, for example. Verve […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources •
Back to the (Legal) Basics: Initial reflections from SOCAP on social enterprise and impact investing
Last week 1,600 participants from around the world – including entrepreneurs, investors, institutions, non-profits and foundations – gathered at SOCAP12 to discuss “the intersection of money and meaning.” Understandably, impact investing is a common thread throughout the conference. The first day of the conference began with keynote speaker Katherine Fulton discussing the […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Impact Investing •
Life Preservers for Startups
Felicia Savage is a content strategist and up-and-coming PR specialist living in Indianapolis. When she isn’t sharing online content, Felicia loves to draw and watch animated films in her spare time. Twitter: @canonicalkitteh Launching a startup, believe it or not, is no easy task. Almost every day it seems like there’s a new story in […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources •
SF wants visitors to get out of the tourist traps and into the neighborhoods!
As great as Fisherman’s Wharf is, San Francisco wants to get tourists into other neighborhoods. As part of a program that highlights small businesses located outside of the city’s main tourists spots, the SF Travel Association has chosen 10 new recipients to join the ranks. Now in its third year, the neighborhood partnership grants give […]
Jul 15, 2015 – PCV News •
The PCV Experience: Discount Glass & Mirror
Below is a transcript of an interview done with Anthony Bortz, president of Discount Glass & Mirror in San Diego. Anthony has been working with PCV for about two years with staff in the PCV San Diego office and two expert advisors. Anthony’s story is a great one, and one that might strike a chord […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring •
The Impact Investor at SOCAP12
This week at SOCAP12 InSight, CASE at Duke University and ImpactAssets launched A Market Emerges: The Six Dynamics of Impact Investing, the second report for The Impact Investor project. As part of the launch the research team curated several panels exploring findings and highlights from the report. Below are recaps from the first two sessions, […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
PCV to Curate SF Federal Reserve Oct 1st Event – Capital Markets for Impact at Scale
This coming Monday, October 1st, a PCV and Equilibrium Capital curated event, Capital Markets for Impact at Scale (#impactatscale), will convene the field’s foremost experts to discuss the roles that policy, mainstream capital markets, and innovation play in building scale in impact investing. The event, co-hosted by the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank and Rockefeller […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • PCV News •
Access to Capital – Government Resources & Policy Implications
Thank you to everyone who came to Hanson Bridgett this morning for Access to Capital: Government Resources & Policy implications. We had a great turnout, awesome panelists and catered breakfast to boot! Just in case you missed it, let us recap the event. We were joined by Mark Quinn of the SBA, Barbara Kasoff of […]