Helping Businesses Grow & Succeed
The help wanted signs are everywhere. If your small business has had trouble hiring, you are not alone. A nationwide survey found that that was a big problem small businesses are facing as they struggle to recover from the pandemic. And hiring challenges are not even the biggest proglem. For […]
Stephannie Cetoute took over the reins of the family business, Amer Plus Janitorial Maintenance, in 2018. While she had a background in economics and finance and from time to time helped out her father who started the business in 1998, going in “full throttle” to run a business for the […]
The Florida Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network, the Florida Chamber Foundation, CareerSource Florida, and the University of West Florida Haas Center today released new data from the second phase of a research study to understand the impacts of COVID-19 on the state’s small businesses as the pandemic and subsequent economic impacts surpassed the one-year mark. […]
“Government contracting is a long game – you have to be approaching it with a strategy,” says George Ray III, a consultant for Florida SBDC at FIU. “If you don’t have a plan, you almost plan to fail. It’s highly competitive, I can’t stress that enough,” Fortunately, Ray has great […]
Social media is a critical part of your business and it starts with understanding the platforms and which ones are best for engaging with your customer base, says Dana Rozansky, a social media marketer and food blogger. “Figure out what your brand is, find your voice and lean into it,“ […]
Think your business is too small to be target of the cyber bad guys? Think again. It seems like we are always hearing reports of cyberattacks and breaches. This week, it’s Kaseya, a cybersecurity services provider to companies of all sizes, from SMBs to large companies, and its clients that […]
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity announced that financial assistance is now available to small businesses and nonprofits in declared disaster areas after the tragic collapse of the oceanfront condo building in Surfside.. The funds are available through the U.S. Small Business Administration in the form of low-interest Business Physical […]
This post was written last year and has been updated. While we hope South Florida will be spared from the worst of Hurricane Elsa now headed toward Florida, it’s time to dust off your business and personal hurricane plan. It is also a good reminder about the importance of disaster […]
We all know that the pandemic has been devastating for small businesses, We don’t have to look any farther than our neighborhood strip shopping center to see small business that have closed for good. And for many of those companies that have survived, their business is far from what it […]
Knowledge is power. With that in mind, GrowBiz tuned into the second of a series of panel discussions hosted by Florida SBDC at FIU and StartUP FIU Food in which small business owners and branding experts shared their advice about starting an F&B business. (You can read about the first […]