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5 Tips to Help Grow Your Business with Local Partnerships

Supporting local small businesses isn’t just up to the customers. While Small Business Saturday, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday are all great opportunities for local businesses and customers to come together to support the community,...

byRapid Finance

November 28, 2022

7 Marketing Trends Startups Should Keep Their Eye on in 2023

So much is happening as we head toward 2023. Inflation keeps rising. Supply chains are better, but still unpredictable. And everywhere you look, you see the “Recession or no recession?” debate playing out between experts....

byJohn Rampton

November 21, 2022

Steve Case on raising prospects across America, city by city

The following is the preface to “The Rise of the Rest,” in which Steve Case introduces readers to dozens of entrepreneurs whose inspirational stories of struggle and achievement match the most iconic examples of American...

bySteve Case

November 14, 2022

Small Business Sales - Build Your Business Without Relying on Price

Start Lean, Stay Lean: 4 Ways to Shape Up Your Operation

As a startup founder, you have a lot of dreams to accomplish on a limited budget. One way to make sure you accomplish your goals is by focusing on efficiency right away. You can start...

byJohn Rampton

November 7, 2022

How to Use AI to Successfully Build and Scale Your Retail Business

Starting a business is no easy task. The commitment and time sacrifice are significant, and the expenditure of capital combined with the stress of managing numerous tasks can be overwhelming. Growing your business can be...

byMichael Hill

October 31, 2022

5 Tips for Mastering Your Brand Storytelling

How are customers, employees and investors able to connect with a business? Companies have a way of coming to life, and often, it’s through the power of brand storytelling. The best businesses have a story,...

byRachel Blakely-Gray

October 28, 2022

How to Leverage Customer Insights to Drive New Customer Acquisition Strategy

At its core, leveraging customer insights lets your business look into the hearts and minds of current and potential buyers. Tapping into customer insights offers a way to take the pulse of your target audience,...

byRachael Baihn

October 26, 2022

Small Business Cybersecurity Threats and How to Stop Them

With October serving as Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and cyberattacks on the rise, it’s a good idea to understand how to secure your business’ digital information. Many small businesses often underestimate their level of risk,...

byRapid Finance

October 25, 2022

4 Major Obstacles Every Entrepreneur Must Overcome

With very few exceptions, the road to successful entrepreneurship has never been without its obstacles. Even during the best of times, blazing new ground in the business world has always been risky. After all, if...

byJohn Rampton

October 25, 2022

Harness the Power of Conflict to Grow Your Company

byGabe Karp

October 25, 2022

How To (Safely) Set Up a Crypto Wallet for Your Small Business

As a business owner, you're always looking for new and innovative ways to reduce costs and increase profits while providing better service and more value to your customers. You've probably heard of Bitcoin and other...

byJordan Bishop

October 24, 2022

Focus on Your Loyal Customers, the Rest Will Follow

When starting a new business, many of us tend to focus our time and effort on scaling and getting more and more customers on our website or through the door. As founders, we should be...

byJonathan Kelley

October 18, 2022

6 Finance Books to Help You Make Better Business Decisions

Just when you thought that successful business owners don’t have the time to curl up in bed to read a book, you’d be surprised to know that average entrepreneurs read at least one book a...

byMatthew Gillman

October 18, 2022

Why the Supply Chain Disruption Is Actually Good for Small Business

When the economy is strong, and the sales are rolling in, there is little incentive for entrepreneurs to come up with any new innovations. It is only when something dramatic like a pandemic hits, and...

byKim Staflund

October 17, 2022

5 Ways E-Commerce Entrepreneurs Can Make More Data-Driven Decisions

E-commerce thrived in 2021, but if you want your brand to really take off, you need to focus on the data. Data-driven decision-making is the key to success in the modern world of e-commerce. If...

byLucas Miller

October 14, 2022

How to Build a Brand for the Modern Consumer

There’s no denying that a loved brand is one of the most valuable assets of a company. As a small business, you may constantly find yourself competing against big brands with loyal customers and marketing...

byShay Berman

October 13, 2022

5 Ways Programmatic Advertising Can Benefit Your Brand

Programmatic advertising is the automated buying and selling of digital ads in real time. It can be used to access virtually any channel, such as desktop platforms, mobile platforms, connected TVs and more. The goal...

byShay Berman

October 12, 2022

The 3-Hour Rule: How to Win at the Big and Little Tasks

This is an excerpt from “Tranquility by Tuesday: 9 Ways to Calm the Chaos and Make Time for What Matters” by Laura Vanderkam. Copyright 2022 by Portfolio and reprinted with permission. The productivity trap Turning...

byLaura Vanderkam

October 11, 2022

Why Diversifying Your Income Provides More Opportunities in the Long Run

One of the most common reasons people pursue the path of entrepreneurship is to achieve financial security and independence. If the events of the COVID-19 pandemic have taught us anything, it’s that anyone -- regardless...

byHenry Ma

October 6, 2022

A Beginner’s Guide to Business Success in the Metaverse

There’s no hiding from it: The metaverse is coming, and it’s on track to disrupt the world of business as we know it. Championed by newly rebranded Meta (formerly Facebook), the metaverse will be a...

byAlex Young

October 5, 2022