Small businesses requires hard work, creativity and sacrifices. To maintain small business, you really need to make big commitments.
You should be willing to put customers first even if it makes yo…
I feel a certain resonance with this JD Power and Associates report showing a massive drop in small business confidence in banks recently. The report cites mistakes, mystery fees, and general inatte…
It's moderately well-documented that people prefer to buy from local businesses. It may be that there's something comforting in it, or that the perception of an ongoing relationship and the …
The thoughts that Seth Godin describes in his recent post "The forever recession" are nothing new; the disappearance of the localized industrial base has been a long-lamented but all but f…
Probably not, if you are like the rest of corporate America. After another day watching the market crater, it's difficult to dig out the checkbook and add another mouth to the payroll. Most of us …
With my background in tech, it's sometimes hard to see where trends that have been common in information technology for years are starting to break in the larger marketplace. This article on Sma…
I may just not be paying attention, but I haven't seen all the indicators that Scott Shane is talking about when he talks about mass media claiming that the recession has been good for entrepren…
It's a well-known truism that when the economy goes south and people start losing their jobs, the numbers of new small businesses go up. That pink slip is often the motivation that is needed for o…
Apparently not, according to a trend spotted by Scott Shane at Small Business Trends: "…the incorporated self-employment rate is 4 times higher among those aged 65 to 69 than among those aged…
There has been some cause for concern over the potential for economic recovery in the United States lately related to the role of the small business, and particularly new startups as a subset of tha…