Innovative business-helping-business event helps small businesses immediately RICHMOND, Va., May 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "The only way for cities to jump-start their small business economy is for businesses to help each other," said Peter Kaufman, co-owner of The Hoople Group. The Hoople Group, a Richmond, VA marketing firm, created the first Pop-Up Marketing Shop in October, 2009 and matched marketing professionals with more than 110 small businesses.

Earlier this year, Maggie Kelly was named as the new director of marketing for ABA's Professional Development Group. Part of her responsibilities includes overseeing the marketing of the ABAMN.

Source: Review of Business High tech services such as technology consulting, systems integration and implementation of enterprise-wide software applications like customer relationship management (CRM) are predicted to become a $700 billion industry by 2005.