Small Business Profiles
Naturally Nature’s Digital Journey Towards Helping the Environment
Hershey, PA Deanna Slamans of Hershey, PA, has always had a love for the environment. When she realized how many harmful plastics were in her children’s diapers and how much waste they generated, she set out on a mission to create a more natural and sustainable option. In 2014 Deanna and her husband created their…
Digitally-Powered Career Coaching Success
Valerie Martinelli – Valerie Martinelli Consulting (VMC)Waterbury, CT Outside of her 9-to-5 job, Valerie Martinelli had a passion and knack for helping her friends with their careers — guiding them through resume edits, negotiating salaries, and making pivotal career decisions. In 2016, Valerie transformed this innate talent for career guidance into a full-fledged consulting business.…
Tech to Skincare: QRxLabs’ Digital Journey
Miami, FL Alexander Fedorowicz has always had a knack for navigating the digital world. Before taking the entrepreneurial plunge, he honed his skills at tech giants like IBM and Oracle. However, e-commerce was his true passion. Alexander and his business partner started QRxLabs, an online skincare company that sells their own brand of serums and…
Janus Motorcycles co-founder meets with Sen. Young
Ahead of National Small Business Week, co-founder of Goshen-based Janus Motorcycles, Richard Worsham, met with Indiana Senator Todd Young in Washington to share how digital tools help grow his business and voice concerns with policy proposals that could hurt his business
Saddle Brook Small Business Owner Recognized as 3C Congressional Champion
Washington, DC (May 1, 2023): Ahead of National Small Business Week, Josie Tineo, co-owner of Josie Michelle Events in Saddle Brook, NJ, met with Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-NJ) office in Washington, D.C. to share how digital tools help grow her business and voice concerns with policy proposals that could hurt her business by making digital…
Groce, Greer small business owners, promote digital tools
Charlotte Groce, owner/founder of Palmetto Outdoor Spaces in Greer, met with Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) office in Washington, D.C., to share how digital tools help grow her business and voice concerns
Cece Meadows, Prados Beauty
In honor of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we wanted to highlight an incredible small business owner Cece Meadows, founder and CEO of @PradosBeauty. As a Chicana/Indigenous woman whose ancestors are of the Yoeme and Nʉmʉnʉ people and as a natural philanthropist, Cece is bringing Indigenous representation into the beauty world. Back in 2018, Cece worked backstage for New…
J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works
One could say salt-making runs in Nancy Bruns’ blood. The seventh generation in a family of salt-makers, siblings Nancy Bruns and Lewis Payne share a common love of history, food, and family. Staying true to her salt roots, in 2013 she and her brother revived her family’s salt business in the Kanawha Valley of West…
Chukar Cherries
In 1988, Pam Montgomery and her young family escaped the bustle of Seattle to north Prosser when they purchased the largest family-owned cherry orchard (100 acres) in Washington State. With 8,000 trees to harvest in a short two weeks, a bounty of leftover cherries was only expected. Day after day, Pam (with her three young…