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Indian social commerce Meesho raises $570 million at $4.9 billion valuation

TechCrunch

billion, as a growing number of high-profile investors back the Indian social commerce startup that is reporting strong growth despite the pandemic. India is primarily an unorganized market; 80 to 85% of the entire retail GDP is unstructured and long-tail and run by small businesses. Meesho founders.

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Former Snap employees raise $9M for Trust, emerging from beta to level marketing playing field

TechCrunch

Trust wants to give smaller businesses the same advantages that large enterprises have when marketing on digital and social media platforms. The Los Angeles-based company was started in 2019 by a group of five Snap alums working in various roles within Snap’s revenue product strategy business. Trust dashboard.

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Free programs that will help save our small businesses

Capgemini

We are here to assist small businesses to survive COVID-19. These crises have exposed the challenges facing underserved communities that live on the margins or outside of the digital world and the importance of the internet as a socio-economic equalizer. of businesses in the country and employ over 58 million people.

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Top Five Internet Marketing Tools for Small Business Owners

Women on Business

Top Five Internet Marketing Tools for Small Business Owners. It’s tough being a small business owner in today’s economy but one proven way to increase your brand awareness and customer base is through Internet marketing. Want to be an Internet marketing superstar? Google AdWords™.

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India’s BharatPe valued at $2.85 billion in Tiger Global-led $370 million funding

TechCrunch

Indian fintech startup BharatPe has raised $370 million in a new round of financing as it looks to aggressively scale its business in the next two years. It’s the nineteenth Indian startup to become a unicorn this year (up from 11 last year) as several high-profile global investors double down in the South Asian market.

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4 Ways Social Media Marketing Can Benefit Brick & Mortar Retail Stores

Strategy Driven

This interaction makes it easy to improve engagement, as people can stop in when they’re walking by or once they get off of work, walking in to see what this small business is all about or to purchase a product out of support. Social media has particularly changed the way that small businesses sustain themselves.

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Not every creator economy startup is built for creators

TechCrunch

An often-cited landmark report from the venture capital firm SignalFire says that creators are the fastest-growing type of small business. As this market has expanded, I’ve written about credit card companies for creators , community-building tools and companies that help you design a product to sell, among other ventures.

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