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Small Business BC Awards nominations open

Small business owners across BC are invited to compete for $40,000 in prize money as Small Business BC celebrates the 20th anniversary of the province’s largest award contest for entrepreneurs, the Small Business BC Awards.

What started out as a simple business planning contest has evolved to become the largest and most recognized awards program dedicated to small businesses in Western Canada. Over 6,000 businesses, from every industry and every community in BC, have competed to be named one of the top small businesses.

“Over the past 20 years, SBBC has been honored to shine a spotlight on BC’s entrepreneurs,

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Have a Small Business With a Partner? Key-Life Insurance Needs to Be a Top Priority

One woman packing clothes into shipping boxes while the other checks her laptop at a table in a clothing store storeroom.

Image source: Getty Images

Key-life insurance can protect your small business partnerships.

Key points

  • Key-life insurance policies pay out benefits in the event that one of the owners of a business dies.
  • This also allows for a smooth transition of ownership in the event of disability or critical illness.

If you run a small business with one or more partners, what should be your priority? Making sure your operating agreement is set? yourbudget? your business plan? While these are all important, many business partners don’t realize that key-life insurance should be at the top of your priority list. This type

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Third of Vancouver small business’ inventory stolen in parkade break-in

A Vancouver small business owner says one-third of her inventory was stolen from her car in a parkade break-in on New Year’s Eve.

Elaine Li is a model, influencer, and owner of Livelite Athletica — an activewear brand she designs herself. Li had packed a suitcase full of pieces for an upcoming trade show and someone smashed her back window and stole it out of her parkade.

livelite pieces

Some of Elaine Lie’s pieces from her Livelite activewear brand. (Submitted)

“I wanted to warn other people to never leave anything important to them in their cars here,” Li said. “I don’t want

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Small business owners seek a wider customer range

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — By and large small businesses are optimistic about the new year, but they are still concerned about specific things.

One expert spoke about the outlook for the new year and suggested how small business owners could reach a wider consumer base.

There are some 33 million small business owners in the US
The Small Business Administration reported that one million new small businesses were formed across the country last year.

But during the same time, 800,000 small businesses closed.

“It’s never been easier to open a small business but it’s never been harder to maintain a

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Maria Mind Body Health

If you are loving my protein sparing recipes, you are going to love these protein sparing pancakes!

I love a tender filet mignon, but I understand that somedays you want to hit your protein macro, but you don’t feel like meat!

Don’t worry my friends! I have your taste buds in mind!

My protein sparing pancake recipe is perfect for hitting your protein goal without adding fat!

HOW TO MAKE PROTEIN SPARING PANCAKES

To make these delicious protein sparing pancakes, I used Further Food vanilla collagen!

Further Food collagen peptides and their gelatin are sourced from the highest quality, grass-fed,

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Hard At Work | News, Sports, Jobs

Pictured is Sorena Gilkinson, the owner Handcrafted from the Heart located in the village of Mayville. Submitted photo

MAYVILLE — Four women-owned businesses along South Erie Street in the village have all seen success over the past year.

The four businesses — Mayberry Jungle, Bene Esse, Handcrafted From The Heart and Quintessential — are reporting growth while their owners are keeping their focus on overcoming the challenges that small businesses have had to face over the past year.

For two of the businesses, challenges such as staffing have not been an issue.

“I’ve found most people understand that inflation affects

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Local Small Business Owners Ecstatic Over Corporate and Institutional Support in 2023

e-Local Marketplace (“ELM”) Offers a Win-Win for DEI Initiatives and Local Spend with Chicagoland Small Businesses and MBE/WBE/DBE/VBEs

e-Local Marketplace (“ELM”), provides a direct solution to corporate and institutional buyers’ DEI initiatives and other entities committed to supporting local, women, minority, and veteran-owned businesses in the 9,581 square mile Chicagoland area. Formal diversity certification is not required. Through ELM, Buyers generate economic transformation via spending with local small business owners. “I really appreciate what ELM and VIT have done for my business. Without them I would not have been able to expand my business beyond my brick and mortar storefront.”

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Rural Small Business Owners Feel Uncertain About Future

While many small business owners in both rural and urban settings say business has rebounded from the Covid-19 pandemic, more than half of rural small business owners feel uncertain about the future of the economy, according to a new report.

The report, titled “The Megaphone of Main Street: The Small Business Rural/Urban Divide,” found that rural entrepreneurs are significantly more likely than non-rural entrepreneurs to say that population trends impact their business. The report found that rural businesses are hurting for workers: Population shifts have created challenges for small rural employers, over a third of which (35.9%) say there are

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