Tag: smallbusiness

A Perceived Philosophical Conflict – PHE America

I am the only female in my high school PE department. It’s been this way for 20 years. The one time another female came in she tried to out-alpha the football coach and got removed from teaching PE and placed in Health. I think she might have taught one section of PE in the two years she was here, and I think it was Adapted PE. Since we’ve had a fully working weight room, it was always paired with the football coach. We got a new one this year, the fifth in my tenure working at this same high school.

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Over $2 trillion in business assets are at stake as the majority of small business owners plan to exit their business over the next decade

Toronto, January 10, 2023 – Over $2 trillion in business assets could change hands within the next decade as over three-quarters (76%) of small business owners are planning to exit their business, according to a new report by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB).

Retirement is the top reason business owners are cited for leaving their business (75%), while 22% are burned out and 21% want to step back from their responsibilities as owners. However, only one in 10 business owners (9%) have a formal business succession plan in place.

“It’s essential for business owners to have a well-planned

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9 Ways To Grow Your Small Business Through Social Media Marketing

Opinions expressed by entrepreneur contributors are their own.

Small businesses have increasingly relied on social media marketing to reach customers, create brand awareness and drive sales over the past decade. Whether you’re just starting or have been in business for years, social media marketing can help your small business reach its full potential. You don’t need to invest thousands of dollars in marketing to grow your customer base and succeed with social media marketing — you need to use it strategically and effectively. To help you grow your small business through social media marketing, we’ve put together this list of

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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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A snapshot into unfair phrases in small enterprise contracts

As foreshadowed in our earlier Notion on small enterprise finance contracts, on 12 August 2022, the Federal Courtroom docket declared that fairly just a few provisions of the standard small enterprise software program program/suppliers and rental/lease contracts of Fujifilm (beforehand Fuji Xerox) are “unfair contract phrases” beneath the unfair contract phrases legal guidelines: Australian Rivals and Shopper Price v Fujifilm Enterprise Innovation Australia Pty Ltd [2022] FCA 928.

Sorts of phrases found to be unfair

This case is a useful occasion of what phrases is also deemed unfair throughout the Courts of Regulation. Firms may need to fastidiously analysis their

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OC Small Enterprise Development Firm Declares $1 Million Funding for Native At-Menace Corporations

The Small Enterprise Development Firm of Orange County simply currently launched its celebration of Comerica’s $1 million funding in SBDC-OC’s mission of serving to weak Southern California firms acquire success.

Representatives of every organizations held an official check-signing event in August at SBDC-OC’s headquarters in Santa Ana, marking the occasion firm’s receipt of the funds. Dubbed an EQ2 funding, the $1 million outlay is an Equity Equal funding which may function as a deeply subordinated mortgage with certain choices that let it to work like equity.

These type of monetary establishment investments perform devices to help neighborhood progress financial institutions

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