Helping Businesses Grow & Succeed
A small business that plans conferences for corporations and organizations is feeling the pain. Three conferences were cancelled just last week. So is a small business retailer who just found out she can’t get any more of her most popular item, a signature baby blanket, for the foreseeable future because […]
Despite frequent reports in the news of cyber attacks on businesses and privacy breaches, an alarming number of small businesses are not prepared. More than four of every 10 small business owners have no cybersecurity plan in place at all – leaving their most sensitive financial, customer and business data, […]
Twenty years after founding Spanx, Sara Blakely has no plans to slow down, despite becoming the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire in 2012. She continues to grow her billion-dollar business – now venturing beyond undergarments and into active wear for women and men – as well as expand her impact […]
By Dan Grech / Guest Contributor Antonio Otero, D.D.S., has grown his family-owned dental practice to seven locations throughout South Florida. Like any businessperson, he was always on the lookout for ways to attract new customers. “I had joined business networking groups, advertised on radio and TV, but I still […]
By Jennifer Lobb / Guest Contributor A variety of metrics can determine the health of your business, but few are as indicative of success or failure as negative cash flow, or the net amount of cash that flows in and out of your business. A positive cash flow is essential for […]
Editor’s note: New Year, New Start. Growbiz brings you a post about low-cost technology tools aimed at increasing productivity and organization for your small business. By Jennifer Lobb / Guest Contributor Multiple factors contribute to the overall success of a business, and while some of them are directly tied to […]
The good news: There is no shortage of educational resources for small businesses in South Florida. On any given week, you can pick from a number of workshops and seminars, given by organizations such as Florida SBDC at FIU, the U.S. Small Business Administration, SCORE, Miami Bayside Foundation, The Miami-Dade […]
Visit a hospital, large company, airport, sports facility or tourist attraction, and it is abundantly clear how important digital signage and messaging is. You use it to easily get where you are going, learn how long you may have to wait, see if there’s something you want to eat, and […]
Bob and Kristie Thomas don’t do retirement very well – and that’s a lucky thing for chocolate lovers. Bob is a retired commercial pilot, where he spent 43 years flying for airlines including Eastern, Southwest, Saudi Arabian Airlines and most recently Copa. Kristie retired from owning her own travel agency […]
It’s been a good year for most small businesses. The economy remains strong, and you all are a relatively optimistic bunch. Still, every business should take the time to look at what went right – and not so well – in the past year and then create a road map […]