Category: THE Small Business Expert Blog

When you need it done yesterday, it might be a job for a freelancer

Consider this scenario: You’re just about to walk out the door when you remember that you wanted to dress up your website to reflect the holiday weekend. If it doesn’t get done almost immediately, it will be too late. However, it’s not a problem. You shoot off a quick note to your web designer and […]

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Nationwide study reveals troubling small business statistics

Looks like a disaster waiting to happen… We all know that common expression and it perfectly reflects my thoughts when I was recently reviewing the results of Nationwide’s 2017 Business Owners Attitudes and Usage Study. Here are the key findings that I found rather scary: Only 20 percent of business owners have built a disaster […]

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This week in small business: Insights from the poker table

Get some lessons in productivity from Millennials, learn about efficient distribution from NGOs, and take some entrepreneurial tips from the game of poker. Those are just a few of the insights you’ll get from this week’s crop of curated content. Leadership, management, and productivity In this installment of her Women in Business Q&A, Laura Emily […]

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Small business owner: Are you up for the $10,000 UPS 2017 X-Port Challenge?

As important to the world economy as the United States is, most consumers don’t live within our borders, and their buying power is increasing all the time. However, less than 1 percent of U.S. companies export and of those who do, 58 percent export to just one country. Those figures come from UPS, a company […]

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