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Opinion: Small Businesses Need a Bigger Digital Safety Net

Maryland’s small businesses are weary and perhaps still in a state of shock, more than seven months after COVID-19 blew up the economy. Quarantines, closures and shutdowns have forced state employers...

Minneapolis retail experts launch online shop for small retailers spurred by COVID-19 economy

Former Target executives Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga have gone from working on big-box stores to thinking about how they can better market products made by small local retailers...

eBay Launches “Up & Running Grants” to Set Small Business Sellers Up for Success in 2021

eBay commits $500,000 in grant packages for small business sellers, as well as mentorship and resources for all applicants in collaboration with business accelerator Hello Alice...

7 ways technology is helping small businesses during COVID-19

When COVID-19 began to take hold in March, small businesses were among the first to feel the effects. Many, however, were quick to find that the flexibility of being a small operation allowed...

Our digital recovery: How Iowa’s businesses will bounce back

Across America, the top issue on many voters' minds as they cast their ballots over the last few weeks was the economy. Iowa is no different: 30% of voters said it was their primary concern, second...

For Small-Business Owners, a Shifting Landscape of Resources

Small businesses across the country have been pounded by the pandemic. Entrepreneurs have been forced to make drastic cuts and pivot to new business models to keep...

Europe’s Big Tech Myopia Undermines Small Business Digital Safety Net

COVID-19 is surging again. European health officials are ordering more lockdowns, quarantines and travel restrictions. This is the time when small business owners, facing a financial tsunami of locked-down customers and economic headwinds, should invest in Digital Safety Net tools and services that can help them survive. But in a classic case of bad timing…

House of Reps “Big Tech” Indictment is Full of Small Businesses Pitfalls

Details matter. In the case of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff Report that calls for dramatic changes to how America regulates the Internet, it is astounding how many details the Report got wrong. Once again, Congress has demonstrated it simply does not know how Internet technology and e-commerce work. Millions of digitally empowered small…

6 ways small businesses can boost holiday sales in 2020 amid the pandemic

Unlike most retailers, which see a sales peak over the winter holidays, revenue at Potomac River Running, a chain of 10 specialty running stores in Washington, D.C...

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