Google My Business has launched a new tool that allows service businesses to share their service areas and information about their business via Google Maps and Search. New Google My Business Update By configuring their service area by adding the towns, cities and postal codes they cover, the new Google for Business feature means businesses […]
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Earlier this week, we all snoozed through a large portion of the Super Bowl. Hopefully, before you dozed off, you were able to catch the story of former NFL star Nolan Carroll. Nolan never got to play in the Super Bowl during his NFL career, but like nearly 1 in 4 former pro football players,
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At the end of the week, do you feel like sometimes your message isn’t getting through to your team? We got two new pieces of data in this week that suggest one, it’s not, and two (and better) there’s a way to improve it … maybe. A new study released this week shows that 82%
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Minority entrepreneurship and business ownership rates are at record levels in the US. This week, new data from LendingTree found out where, exactly, in America these minority-owned businesses are thriving the most. Most signs in the data point to California. Of the top 10 cities in the US, 4 are in the Golden State. San
It’s another week where, on one hand, things look good for small business across the country. And then … There’s that other hand. In the last week, we reported that small businesses and franchise businesses were each busy at the end of 2018 filling open jobs. That’s great. In total, according to ADP, it was
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Small businesses have a sense of optimism which hasn’t been seen by the 45-year-old National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) index. The 108.8 record high was set in August of 2018, which is part of a 24-month positive trend the likes of which the NFIB hasn’t recorded. This led the NFIB to ask what exactly
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We’re off and running as we close the first full work week of 2019. But one thing that’s not running right now is the federal government. The government shutdown has gone on for close to 3 weeks now. And it’s starting to take its toll on small businesses. We took a look this week at
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There are a lot of negatives in the news about the big social media companies. While those headlines tend to focus on the leadership at those companies, the sites themselves continue to be a boon for small business owners. They’re one centralized location to reach a large group of potential customers and followers. This week,
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We don’t aim to read the tea leaves here, but it’s hard not to speculate. This week, we reported on the most recent employment numbers from ADP. In the small business sector, 46,000 jobs were added in November 2018. Franchise businesses added 11,500 jobs in the same time. Those are both healthy figures. And any
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Right before heading into Christmas and the New Year holidays, it’s a great time to look back at the record-breaking holiday shopping season that’s just coming to a close. In this day of instant data, some early numbers show just how great the season has been so far and just how much it’s changing. According
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