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Are you prepared to grow your business under the “new normal?” Invest four hours over two days in this nationally-conducted workshop and feel more confident...

Create Your 90-Day Action Plan part 1

Tom Maier

Are you prepared to grow your business under the “new normal?” Invest four hours over two days in this nationally-conducted workshop and feel more confident...

How employee handbooks protect businesses

CEDF

Does your small business have a comprehensive employee handbook covering all of the current COVID-19 considerations? Is it up-to-date to include the requirements of...

Is your business protected by trademark?

Steven Cooper

What’s in a business name? Would your company by any other name produce profits as sweet? Our apologies to William Shakespeare, but have you...

Small Business Assistance Updates

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CT CARES Small Business Grant-- Glendowlyn Thames, Deputy Commissioner, CT Dept of Economic & Community Development SBA PPP Forgiveness Application Procedures-- Julio Casiano, SBA Hartford...

Articles

Small Business Chalkboard -- Articles to help plan and operate your enterprise

Can your employees figure out what’s right?

Frederick Welk

We recently featured a webinar about establishing an ethics program and why this is important, even for smaller businesses. It’s been my observation that...

Covid-19 work from home is a hacker’s paradise

Jamie D'Agostino

Editor’s Note: The author is founder and CEO of Netology, a Stamford-based IT services provider that manages network systems for many small businesses in...

What if I can’t pay my loan?

No escape from the fatal flaws

How are you going to compete?

Let’s be optimistic about disaster debt

Seven strategies for expanding your influence in uncertain times

Don’t be a chicken when recruiting

Will you choose fear or opportunity?

Without cash, your business is as good as closed

Go-to person’s guide to good email hygiene

The opportunity of loss

COVID-19: What about customer deposits?

Emergency legislation brings new employer mandates

COVID-19: Negotiate a Rent Abatement or Deferral in your Lease

It’s high time you learned SEO basics

It’s the leader not the concept

Kickstarter may be your best option to raise capital

Give the customers what they want

Where does small business get its capital?

Be ready to wrestle the bear

Could you use the Golden Triplet?

Think like your lender to understand how to land financing

How to win when you’ve lost?

When business credit scores start to matter

Networking might be the wrong approach

How to compete against Amazon

Is revenue-based financing right for you?

$10,000 for your soul

What would your employees say?

Is your selling environment all wrong?

This will be an unforgettable opportunity

Leave the flying to the squirrels

Are you following these seven natural laws?

Use the Yogi Berra method

Take Warren Buffet’s advice

Can you really withhold price information?

Is there such a thing as too much capital?

Small Business As Usual podcasts

The art of operating small enterprises and the issues faced by the owners

Podcasts

Small Business As Usual 20-6 — diversity, inclusion & equity

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Karen Hinds of Workplace Success Group explains why small business owners need to be engaged with diversity, inclusion and equity and how it can...

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Small Business As Usual 20-5 — facing uncertainty

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What makes some entrepreneurs better suited for the most emotionally challenging part of business ownership -- uncertainty? Dr. Len Wysocki has insights into the...

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Small Business As Usual 20-4 — building community

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Michael Cervellino of Belle Academy had figured out how to deal with COVID-19 long before the pandemic hit through charity events and old fashioned...

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Small Business As Usual 20-3 — preparation for change

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As a small business owner, it’s likely you’ll have to deal with change on a daily basis. Ralph Mesite shares how he prepared for...

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Small Business As Usual 20-2 — employee personal problems

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Organizational development consultant and author Bruce Tulgan explains you can be be humane, thoughtful and take the right approach to dealing with employees who...

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Small Business As Usual 20-1 — should you go into business?

CEDF

Lots of people are attracted to owning their own businesses. But not everyone stops to make a truly informed assessment of whether it’s right...

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Small Business As Usual 19-9 — bread saved my life

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We've all heard stories about how the challenges of small business ownership cause personal crises. In contrast, Jennifer Acuna, owner of Loafing Around, LLC...

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Small Business As Usual 19-8 — improving cash flow

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Cash flow problems have to be the number one problem small business owners face. Michael Mongillo of Eleven Arrows Consulting points out the solutions...