Helping Businesses Grow & Succeed
Alternative financing options are on the rise and more small businesses are seeking them, according to results from the Q2 Private Capital Access Index from Dun & Bradstreet and Pepperdine Graziadio Business School. Here are some of the findings: Thirty-four percent (34%) of respondents attempted to raise bank financing in […]
Juan and German Puerto of Miami come from a long line of business owners in Colombia. So it wasn’t a hard decision to take on the challenge of growing a tropical ice cream brand, Fruitique, started by their father and inspired by their heritage. The brothers joined the company full-time […]
Chaotic periods can destabilize a small business, and sometimes it doesn’t take much. Some of it is just part of the company’s growing pains. Isn’t this a familiar scenario? Your sales are coming in fast and furiously but you don’t have the staff to handle it. Perhaps your sales cycle […]
If you run a growing small business, there is a good chance you are facing one or all of these challenges. We picked the brains of some small business experts to help you find a way to overcome them. You are slow getting to market with your product or service. […]
Are you hoping to export for the first time? Or perhaps your small business exports to one country and you want to know: What are the most strategic markets to target next? What online tools can help you find new markets? And how can you use trade data and other […]
Timothy Dunlap saw the potential for turning recycled shipping containers into creative, affordable spaces for entrepreneurs to showcase their products, and started his company Cepods to design and lease containers for use as pop-up retail. “I thought I could put together event-type pop-up retail spaces,” said Dunlap, the Miami entrepreneur […]
South Florida small businesses, you are an optimistic bunch about your own businesses. In fact, your outlooks are much sunnier than businesses in other states. Local small businesses projected one of the strongest business outlooks nationwide this spring, according to the recently released spring 2019 Bank of America Business Advantage […]
Think your business is too small to be target of the cyber bad guys? Think again. According to the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report released this month, 43% of cyber attacks in 2018 targeted small businesses. That’s pretty high odds. Just over half of the breaches resulted from hacking. Other […]
Franchised businesses in the United States number nearly 1 million and together generate 15% of private sector jobs and 12.5% of private sector payrolls. Clearly franchise businesses are a force in the economy, but is owning a franchise right for you? GrowBiz talked to George Ray, a consultant with Florida […]
The day-to-day demands can be so overwhelming and time consuming that most small business owners are thankful to have overcome their challenges of the hour – never mind the ones that are coming around the corner. So it’s not surprising that forecasting industry changes and problems for your company before […]