The journey of a small business owner can experience a great deal of plateaus along the way. When the product, customer base and general activities of a company remain the same for a period of time, revenue can stagnate as well. An easy way to pump some life into a small business is to spend
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The rise of the craft brewery industry has benefited numerous other industries. Last week, we talked about how food is one of the most stable industries, because no matter what, people will always need something to eat. Another burgeoning industry goes hand in hand with food, and may be in even higher demand: beer. According
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Wedding proposals rely on a variety of small businesses. We’ve talked before on this blog about how the summer is the biggest season of the year for weddings – and it is. The wedding industry is a staggeringly large one. Bridal shops, catering halls, hotels, salons, cosmetics – all experience a tremendous amount of business
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Seafood can be a great summer addition to any food-related business. Some industries experience major shifts in performance based on seasons. For example, gyms and construction companies tend to do better in the summer, while other industries such as sporting goods stores that specialize in skiing do better during the wintertime. However, there is one
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Trucks are still the dominant form of freight transportation in the US. This past century has been one of change, more so than almost any other period of time. One industry where change has been the most dramatic and the most rapid is transportation. Trains replaced carriages, then cars replaced trains, then airplanes replaced cars
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Small business lenders have begun to fill the vacuum left by banks. We may have begun to see the end of the Great Recession, but many of its effects are still hamstringing small business owners. The Great Recession was devastating to small business. According to the US Census, there were over 337,000 fewer companies with
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The summer is one of the two busiest times of the year for gyms. There are two times of the year that, more than any others, people flock to the gym in droves. The first is at the beginning of January, as people attack their New Year’s resolutions with a vengeance by trying to get
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The demand of running a business makes it difficult to take vacations. For most people, the summertime is a chance to slow down, relax and decompress from the relentless grind of work. For many entrepreneurs and small business owners, it’s just another few months at the office. According to a recent survey by Office Depot,
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There are some simple ways for your business to save a lot of money We’ve talked a lot about how positive the current economic climate looks for small business owners. It’s true – several years after the beginning of a recession, the tide has begun to turn in favor of small businesses, and trends of
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Small businesses in the US experienced their ninth consecutive month of positive growth. Some more encouraging news for small business owners! According to a recent study, small businesses in the United States added 118,000 jobs in June. That was a full sixty percent better than the average for the first five months of 2014, and
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