Helping Businesses Grow & Succeed
Small businesses should be reaching out to their customers frequently, but during a crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic it is more important than ever. Are there problems that customers are having that your small business can solve? DSignage is a small business that sells, installs and maintains smart signage […]
Timing is everything at Fish Level Corp. Samy Fischer’s small business is a 24- hour operation, with his processing team starting work at 1 am to ensure morning deliveries of more than 1,000 pounds of 16 varieties of fish, always fresh, to his clients at restaurants, supermarkets and homes. Then […]
UNICOMM Paging & Cellular, considered an essential business, wasn’t ordered to close amid the coronavirus pandemic. But it may as well have, as stay-at-home orders kept customers away and sales plummeted? “Our company is brick and mortar retail, and we depend on door swings,” said Sam Brejt, CEO of UNICOMM. […]
Concerned about keeping his employees safe, Alex Sikorski, owner of Premium Tech Coating that specializes in automotive, architectural, safety and specialty window films, began studying ways his company could also manufacture face shields to protect them. After some research, he learned that a particular grade of the same material the […]
Small business owners who received a PPP loan of less than $2 million won’t likely face a federal audit. That’s according to new guidance released this week by the Small Business Administration and the US Treasury. The Paycheck Protection Program, a forgivable loan program, allows small businesses hurt by the […]
Enterprise Florida, the state’s economic development agency, announced this week a new trade grant program to help the state’s small and medium-sized companies continue doing business overseas even as international travel is greatly restricted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Virtual Business Matchmaking program will allow the state’s business community to reach new […]
Businesses in most parts of Florida – excluding Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach at the moment because of the high numbers of COVID-19 cases – are already beginning to reopen, per an executive order signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. That doesn’t mean, of course, that you must reopen now – […]
Most U.S. small businesses expect to be out of business within 6 months. That’s from new research released today by SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) warning that the state of small business could go from bad to worse. The survey examines the impact of COVID-19 and identifies significant, widespread […]
As the coronavirus crisis has continued to wallop small businesses, small business owners now have a second chance at getting a loan that could help them keep their companies afloat and pay their employees. After Congress approved it, President Trump signed into law a relief package today that includes a […]
Pilar Guzman Zavala was still beaming with energy and excitement having just returned from an airport conference in Denver in early March. Her small business, Half Moon Empanadas, was preparing to expand nationally, and the interest at the large tradeshow was “amazing.” But what seemed like overnight, she and her […]