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Key Elements of a Winning SME Marketing Strategy
A marketing strategy is essential for any small business or start-up, but it’s more than just writing out a few targets and hoping for the ... -
How Important Is ESG to Small Businesses?
How does your company measure up when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance? For publicly-traded corporations, ESG is a big deal and ... -
Lining Up Your Employee Benefits Programs for 2023
Bank of America’s 2022 Workplace Benefits Report found employers play an important role in their employees’ financial wellness. Employees are stressed (62%) by current economic ... -
Expanding Your Business to Another State: Here's What You Need to Know
You've built a successful business in your home state, and now you're ready to take it to the next level by expanding to another state. ... -
Profile of Small Businesses in the U.S. in 2022
Each year the SBA’s Office of Advocacy releases a Small Business Profile showing information about small businesses in each of the states, U.S. territories, and ... -
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly in the Inflation Reduction Act
On August 12, 2022, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (I.R.A.), a $739 billion measure intended to bring down inflation, encourage green energy activities to ... -
5 Reasons to Become a C Corporation
Almost all small businesses in the U.S. are pass-through entities—sole proprietorships, partnerships, limited liability companies, and S corporations. When it comes to small businesses, of ... -
9 Business Reasons to Use IT Automation
IT process automation is the use of digital technology to perform or process a workflow or function. The use of IT process automation is a ... -
What Does “Income” Mean for Tax Rules?
The word “income” is a generic term for the accretion to wealth. The word “income” connotes wages and earnings from self-employment. But for tax purposes, ... -
5 Economic Indicators that Frighten Small Businesses
Now may be the time for small businesses to hunker down and prepare for worse times to come. While the pandemic may no longer be ... -
Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) Reporting for Your Business?
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting is a report a business generates about its environmental, social, and governance impact. It’s usually done by public companies ... -
Retirement Plans: Voluntary or Mandatory?
As a small business, it is up to you to choose to have a retirement plan or must you do so? The legal answer is ... -
Second Anniversary of the COVID-19 National Emergency: What Small Business Has Learned
On March 13, 2020, the President declared COVID-19 to be a national emergency. This was the start of shutdowns and, according to the SBA’s Office of ... -
Startup Ideas for Success: Finding Money
You may have a great idea for a business. It may be just the thing to solve a problem. Maybe you’re on a mission to ... -
Savvy Strategy For Your Business Video Marketing in 2022
Video marketing has become a truly powerful digital marketing tool. It can be the key to brand development and is almost mandatory for successful promotion ... -
5 Things to Remember about the Home Office Deduction
The pandemic caused many small business owners to abandon their offices—and the rent for them—in favor of working from home and allowing staff to do ... -
What Is Distributed Cloud and How Will It Innovate Cloud Computing?
Many businesses and enterprises rely on the cloud for all of their data needs. With more people working remotely and more business being done online, ... -
Plan Your Holiday Sales Strategies Now
Kiplinger forecasts that the child tax credit payments being sent to parents each month from July through December will support more consumer spending at holiday time ...
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