Nonprofits are businesses with heart, but they’re businesses just the same. Creating a nonprofit is a labor of love, and it can be a very fulfilling way to live your life, but it can also be devastating if you aren’t able to keep the organization going long-term. If you want to achieve the goals of […]
7 Essential Crime Prevention Tips for Your Brick and Mortar Store
As much as we’d like to think bad things don’t happen to good people (and their businesses), that’s simply not the way the world works. Crime strikes both online businesses and brick-and-mortar establishments every day—small and large. Actually, it happens to small businesses more often than you’d think. About 24% of small business owners in […]
5 Ways Small Business Owners Can Benefit from Going Back to School
Many small business owners want to advance their education, but question whether they can find time to return to school. Weighing these factors is quite challenging. The entrepreneurs have countless personal and business responsibilities. Despite this fact, they are aware that devoting time to an advanced degree can give them a competitive edge in a […]
Sole Proprietor vs LLC: 7 Things You Need to Know
When you first make the decision to go into business for yourself, it’s an exciting moment. You’re probably not thinking about all the logistics and little business decisions you’ll have to make along the way. It’s a moment for celebration, not for practical planning—but very quickly, reality hits. As a business owner, you have responsibilities, […]
4 Crucial Issues Every Entrepreneur Should Care About
As an entrepreneur, it’s easy to get caught up in what you’re doing on a daily basis. You might forget about some of the social, economic, and environmental issues facing our world, because you’re just trying to get your product to market or work all the bugs out of your service. In fact, you might […]
Can You Power Your Business with Renewable Energy?
Here’s something you need to know about your next group of customers, Generation Z: they’re worried about the environment. In a 2017 study, 89% of Gen Z participants indicated that they would prefer to buy from an environmentally or socially conscious company over competitors. They’re committed to keeping our planet sustainable, and they’re willing to […]
Does It Matter Where You Store Your Data? You Bet It Does!
Unless you live out in the wilderness, completely cut off from modern society, your personal data has probably been compromised at some point. Most only become aware of this fact when a huge data breach like the one Equifax experienced in 2017 comes to light. That breach compromised the sensitive information of 145 million Americans […]
5 Important Variables That Affect Retail Business Success
Anyone who has ever run a retail business knows that it can feel a little (or a lot) like a roller coaster. There are so many different factors that go into overall success of a retail business—and many of them aren’t directly under the business owner’s control. Still knowing the cause of a disappointing (or […]
7 Essential Tips for Starting Your eCommerce Business
New e-commerce businesses are popping up in every corner of the Internet for a few reasons: They’re simple to set up, they can be very inexpensive to create and maintain, it’s possible to reach customers all over the country (or the world!), and online shopping is becoming more popular every year. 80% of people who […]
