{"id":734,"date":"2013-06-18T14:19:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T14:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=734"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:19:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T14:19:11","slug":"national-small-business-weeks-celebrates-50th-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/national-small-business-weeks-celebrates-50th-year\/","title":{"rendered":"National Small Business Week celebrates 50th year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plantronics.com\/us\/cmpn\/big-trends\/big-trends.jsp\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-613 alignleft\" alt=\"smb-tech-trends\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/smb-tech-trends.jpg\" width=\"167\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a>This week, small businesses take center stage as the country honors the critical role you play in the U.S. economy during the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sba.gov\/nsbw\/\">National Small Business Week.<\/a>\u00a0 Karen Mills, administrator of the Small Business Administration, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sba.gov\/community\/blogs\/official-sba-news-and-views\/open-business\/50-years-national-small-business-week\">writes<\/a> on the SBA blog that \u201cSmall businesses create two out of three net new jobs in our economy. And today, half of all working Americans either own or work for a small business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To ensure your continued success, this year\u2019s National Small Business Week aims to provide you with more tools and resources. A number of cities are offering workshops, hands-on assistance, matchmaking and mentoring for small business owners on going global, social media, cyber-securing and more:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sba.gov\/nsbw\/locations\/dallas\">June 18 \u2013 Dallas\/Ft. Worth, Texas<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sba.gov\/nsbw\/locations\/st-louis\">June 19 \u2013 St. Louis, Mo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sba.gov\/nsbw\/locations\/pittsburgh\">June 20 \u2013 Pittsburgh, PA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sba.gov\/nsbw\/locations\/washington-dc\">June 21 &#8212; Washington, DC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SBA.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-735\" alt=\"U.S. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION LOGO\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SBA-300x132.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a>Even if you don\u2019t live in these cities, or if the events are sold out, you can tune in via live stream at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sba.gov\/smallbusinessweek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.sba.gov\/smallbusinessweek<\/a>, and also join daily Google+ Hangouts for discussions with business and social media experts.<\/p>\n<p>The week wraps up by honoring outstanding entrepreneurs from every state and U.S. territory and announcing the 2013 National Small Business Person of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, small businesses take center stage as the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[510],"tags":[598,580],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}