Are small businesses beginning to have feelings other than optimism as we near the end of 2018? Headlines this week suggest that the ebullient air among small business owners like yourself is being overcome by worry. Maybe it’s just the holidays? Or maybe it’s just the flu? This week, we learned that retailers across the […]
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? It’s the height of the holiday shopping season. And admit it, you’re probably doing a lot of online shopping. You may be doing it now. But what about offline shopping? That’s still a thing and according to a report this week on Small Business Trends, a number of online retailers are trying to attract
According to a recent report on handmade commerce, Etsy sellers are contributing $4.7 billion to the American economy right now. The report, on the surface, shows two positive signs. First, consumer spending is presumably strong. Second, there’s a thirst for quality handmade goods, which are most often made by small business entrepreneurs. This is only
The dust has started to settle on the new United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA), a trade deal between Canada, the United States and Mexico. Although it still needs to be ratified, there are some clear winners and losers as far as American small business goes. Small Business Trends did some research and reached out
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It’s almost the big day! No, not Thanksgiving. Or Black Friday. We’re talking about Small Business Saturday. It’s coming up soon — November 24! The day that was created as a promotion by American Express has turned itself into somewhat of a household name, as it were. And amid all the hooplah and madness of
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You’d be hard pressed to convince any small business owner like yourself that the U.S. is in a trade war. If the economic numbers are any indication, there’s a good chance you’re reading this and things are going well for you. At the very least, they’re probably better than they were. And feeling good is
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? I mentioned preparing for Black Friday and my guest on this latest This Week in Small Business video, John “Colderice” Lawson, was ready to go. So, without further adieu, here are John Lawson’s top tips for preparing for Black Friday … Don’t Run Out of Inventory “You do not want to run out of
? Before you create that next piece of content for your site or social media channel or YouTube channel or whatever, think … is this going to entice someone to buy something from me? To start this latest edition of This Week in Small Business, co-founder of SMB Group Laurie McCabe and I discussed that
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? Small businesses are always enticed with the latest pieces of technology to help them. They’re designed to help but often times, trying to adapt these technologies to our businesses or our businesses to these technologies does more harm than good. This week, small businesses were tempted with some new technologies that are designed to
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? We are back with another This Week in Small Business and back with a familiar guest. But to find John “Colderice” Lawson, I had to go to Las Vegas to get him to appear on the show. And I’m glad I did because he’s got some valuable insight into two articles that grabbed my
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