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2025 Business Trends: How Businesses Are Navigating Growth, Cash Flow, and Technology

3 minute read

May 20, 2025

Business owners across the country have entered 2025 with a mix of cautious optimism and strategic planning. According to Fora Financial's 2025 Business Insights Trends Report, entrepreneurs are forging ahead, despite persistent inflation, rising operating...

Help Wanted: Five Ways to Overcome the Labor Shortage

3 minute read

April 15, 2025

In December, a National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) report found that 34% of small business owners had unfilled job openings. This finding underscores small business owners' ongoing need for labor. In fact, each of...

Six Notable Business Associations for Entrepreneurial Women

4 minute read

March 18, 2025

Whether you're just starting to pitch your business idea to investors, or you've been up and running for years, sometimes you need a little boost. This could mean hearing about new ways to do the...

Nine Women Share their Takes on More Enlightened Entrepreneurship

5 minute read

March 11, 2025

The last decade or so has seen women make great strides in founding and growing their own businesses. And with that progress have come some of the same problems everyone faces when starting a business...

Women-Owned Business Certification: Four Heavy-Hitters

4 minute read

March 6, 2025

If you're an entrepreneurial woman, have you noticed that many of your peers have joined organizations offering women-owned business certifications? These groups let mix and mingle in exciting new networks — and perhaps win some...

Is Crowdfunding Right for Your Small Business?

3 minute read

February 11, 2025

For more than a decade, small business owners have been empowered to bypass traditional lenders and appeal to the general public for seed money. This process of "crowdfunding" often works well. In fact, an $8.8...

I Didn't Know An Accountant Could Do THAT?

4 minute read

January 7, 2025

Growing your business means you need to focus best on what you — and only you — do well. Meanwhile, other people on your staff can manage sales, finance, human resources, because that's what they do...

What You Need Know about Customer-Loyalty Programs

5 minute read

October 1, 2024

While Marcy is shopping for flowerpots at her local big-box store, an email comes in on her phone: "Congrats! You now have 300 points to spend in your Happy Valley Nursery Loyal Customer account!" So...

Are You Watching These 5 Critical Business Metrics?

4 minute read

September 17, 2024

What are some of the most important metrics of success? Here's a surprise: The number of happy customer reviews you have is probably not one of them — though they certainly help. You need to...