5 Small Business Stories, Trends, and Tips for Today
1- What’s The Future Of Small Business?
There are advantages to small businesses, and a big one is their ties to the community. Because they are small and often operate in a limited geographic area, small businesses usually have good knowledge of their customers.
2- Small-business owner has plan to revitalize downtown Spartanburg
Cara Slattery moved to Spartanburg about two years ago, with a dream of running a boutique. Last month, she made that a reality. On March 13, Slattery opened Cara Bella’s Boutique in a newly remodeled building in downtown Spartanburg.
3- How to protect small businesses from failure
SMALL businesses are on the rise, yet many of them fail within a year. Find out what remedies are needed to avoid becoming a statistic. Issues like employee mismanagement, lack of planning and an inability to adapt to market changes can spell doom for even the most promising small business.
4- For small businesses, can attracting older workers be the key to them surviving?
Owners of nearly a third of the new small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Canada are forecast to shutter their business within five years, owing to weak entrepreneurial culture, owners’ lack of critical skills, technological disruptions and rising costs, a Business Development Canada report notes.
5- This Bank Is Stepping Up to Help VA-Owned Small Businesses
Starting a small business is no easy feat. You need a great idea, a well-thought-out plan, and the right team to get your venture off the ground. And once you've done that, you need to keep the momentum going.
