Accion, NYSE Euronext, and Yelp Bring Big StartUp Small Business Connections Tour to Boston
10 Agosto 2012 - 7:29PM
Business Wire
On August 22, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: NYX) will bring
its NYSE Big StartUp “Small Business Connections: Marketing Meets
Microfinancing” nationwide workshop tour to Boston. Hosted in
coordination with Big StartUp partners Accion and Yelp, the event
will provide local business owners with access to two necessary
resources for growing a business: social media marketing know-how
and access to capital. Boston is the fourth stop on Small Business
Connections tour and 60 business owners are currently expected to
attend.
During the free workshop, Yelp’s Manager of Local Business
Outreach will advise on how to work with major social media
platforms, provide strategies for engaging customers online and
navigating the world of online reviews. Lending experts from
micro-and small business lender Accion, which has provided 3,600
loans in the Boston area since 1991, will demonstrate how to
develop a marketing strategy and finance marketing costs with an
Accion microloan. Both Yelp business outreach staff and Accion loan
consultants will be present to answer questions and offer
personalized consultations to participants.
Additionally, Accion client Jessie Banhazl of Green City Growers
will share her experience and offer advice on how social media has
grown her business. Green City Growers is a green company that
builds, installs, and maintains year-round,
organic-raised-bed-vegetable gardens for homeowners,
businesses/corporations, schools and restaurants in the Northeast.
Banhazl was granted a $5,000 loan in January 2012, which she used
to buy the trucks necessary to run her business.
“Small Business Connections” is the first small business event
tour from the NYSE Big StartUp, a nationwide job creation and
business growth initiative that connects small businesses with
established corporations, such as Yelp. Launched in March 2012, the
NYSE Big StartUp program also integrates the Accion-NYSE Job Growth
Fund. This program was started with a $1.5 million commitment by
NYSE Euronext, which will provide small businesses and startups
with the capital and support they need to grow.
The Boston events builds off of the success of events held
earlier this summer in Tucson, AZ and Austin and San Antonio,
Texas, where over 150 small business owners in total attended
workshops. “The number one piece of advice that business owners
request from Accion is on how they can market on a budget,” says
Paul Quintero, East Coast and Online CEO at Accion. “We’re proud to
bring this national resource to local small business owners with
the support of Yelp and NYSE.”
Event Details
Bella Luna Restaurant 284 Amory St. Boston, MA 02130 August 22,
6:00-8:00pm
Register here:
http://yelpboston.eventbrite.com/
The Boston event is hosted in coordination with our supportive
partners:
About Yelp
Yelp (NYSE: YELP) connects people with great local businesses.
Yelp was founded in San Francisco in July 2004. Since then, Yelp
communities have taken root in major metros across the US, Canada,
UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Spain,
Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and
Finland. Yelp had a monthly average of 78 million unique visitors
in Q2 2012 (source: Google Analytics). By the end of Q2 2012,
Yelpers had written more than 30 million rich, local reviews,
making Yelp the leading local guide for real word-of-mouth on
everything from boutiques and mechanics to restaurants and
dentists. Yelp's mobile application was used on 7.2 million
unique mobile devices on a monthly average basis during Q2 2012.
For more information, please visit http://www.yelp.com/ or send an
email to press@yelp.com.
About Accion
As the largest and only nationwide micro- and small business
lending network in the United States, Accion connects small
business owners with the accessible financing and advice it takes
to create or grow healthy businesses. Accion serving the East Coast
and Online lends in the Boston region and offers business loans
between $500 and $50,000 along with training, networking and other
support services to hardworking entrepreneurs. Historically, Accion
serving the East Coast and Online has lent $132 million.
Since 1991, the five members of Accion’s U.S. Network have
collectively made over 44,000 loans, totaling over $320 million.
Additionally, over 400,000 business owners across the nation have
turned to Accion for financial and business advice via workshops,
online tools, and one-on-one consultations. Globally, Accion
(www.accion.org) is a pioneer in microfinance, reaching millions of
individuals through its international network of partners. For more
information on Accion in Boston, please visit
www.accionusa.org.
About NYSE Euronext
NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial
markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The
company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities,
futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With
approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured
Products), NYSE Euronext's equities markets - the New York Stock
Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE MKT, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca -
represent one-third of the world’s equities trading, the most
liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates
NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and
the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of
trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology,
connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE
Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index. For more
information, please visit: http://www.nyx.com.
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