Small Business News & Tips

While it is the framework of your business, your business plan isn't carved in stone. It should be re-examined, amended, or sometimes altered altogether. As challenges arise, your business may need to pivot to another strategy to continue. This isn't a failure of your original business idea — it's the necessary evolution of what you’ve built. The COVID-19 pandemic tested small businesses’ adaptability and presented owners with unforeseen complications. Small businesses had

As a small business owner in an era of staffing shortages, finding good workers quickly is more difficult than ever. You may have to keep...

Really, what is it? Does the whole prospect feel overwhelming? Do you not have much money to start a business? Are you unsure your idea...

“Matija was my great-grandfather — this mythic figure who brought the family over from Slovenia. He had a farm and a general store,...

“There's nothing that humbles you like running a company,” Gazelle Mechanical and Logistics Proprietor Trey Ellington said. Although...

Click to watch AJL Group's spotlight video AJL Group started with an $8,000 contract to fix rain gutters. Only two years later, the...

“I've wanted to own a bakery since I was 12 years old,” said Selena Hunt, proprietor of Flour Girls Baking Company, a Gallipolis, Ohio...

Click to watch Karate Work's spotlight video “Karate isn’t about fighting,” said David Anders, Sensei and Owner of Karate Works, A...

Click to watch Ortiz Art Drafts Design's spotlight video Hermes Ortiz is not just a drafting engineer and graphic designer — the man is a...

Click to watch The Rambling House's spotlight video If you’ve gone into a bar in Columbus and ordered a ginger beer or a Moscow mule,...