Business Employers are worried about retaining their workers – for good reasonUSA TODAY Money - Daniel B. KlineA combination of low unemployment and a large number of job openings has put leverage into workers' hands. People have the ability to switch jobs in order to make more money or get perks that their current
Angel-A We asked four black businesswomen how they got their start. Here's what they said.USA TODAY Money - Talis ShelbourneBack in the 1950s and '60s, Milwaukee bustled with African American-owned businesses. But a combination of changing demographics and concentrated poverty dimmed the community's once-bright glow of entrepreneurship.
Millennials Managing millennials the path to success for your small businessUSA TODAY Money - Rhonda AbramsWant to succeed in growing your small business? Then one skill you’d be wise to learn is how to manage and motivate millennials. After all, millennials – those born roughly between 1980-2000 – are now
Sergey Brin Entrepreneurs, you can do magic: Exploit your differenceUSA TODAY Money - Steve Stausshttps://mp4media.gannett-cdn.com/28911775001/28911775001_6023943692001_6023938596001.mp4 Who woulda thunk that a simple backlink on a website would change the world? Not you, not me, but to two Stanford
Small Business Thinking of going solo? Here's when your small-business side hustle should go full timeUSA TODAY Money - Steve StrausThere are a few different ways to start a business. First, you can jump into the deep end from the get-go. All in. 100%. This means you don’t have another gig or job and that the new business is your business.
Business Treat your employees right, and customers will be satisfied, tooUSA TODAY Money - Rhonda AbramsWhen I started my small business, I was committed to treating my employees well. As an employee, I’d worked for bosses who took their employees for granted, and I knew how de-motivating that could be.
Self-employment How do you save for retirement when you are self-employed? Use the 10% ruleUSA TODAY Money - Steve StraussA recent survey by Paychex found that only 30% of small-business owners felt even “somewhat confident” that they will be financially ready to retire at some point. The culprit? A lack of savings. Almost
It's time small business owners wrote their own declaration of independenceUSA TODAY Money - Rhonda AbramsSmall business owners: King George III had nothing on you as a tyrant. When the colonists in America rebelled against that despotic English king, they were fighting to take charge of their own lives. as
Be your own best boss: Take a vacation from your small businessUSA TODAY Money - Steve StraussYou started a business because you had a dream, be it to make more money, or launch the Next Big Thing, or create some jobs or whatever. But what you never dreamed of is that you would be a bad boss. you.
How small businesses classify employees matters in a big wayUSA TODAY Money - Rhonda AbramsAre Uber drivers small-business owners? Or are they exploited employees? That question matters to your small business because there’s a war going on over the question of "employee status." Whether you’re
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Small businesses: Having trouble hiring? Make the process easierUSA TODAY Money - Daniel B. KlineThe job market, at least in some professions, has gotten very competitive. Workers in in-demand fields can afford to be picky. Even entry-level positions in retail have become harder to fill, as the number
Bug-based snacks? Crazy ideas from visionaries at the Global Entrepreneurs SummitUSA TODAY Money - Steve StraussThere I was, in The Hague (the city, and not, fortunately, the international criminal court). In front of me were sumptuous trays of lobster and steak and wine, and as I jostled for a seat, I saw an opening
Don't be a trade war casualty: Here's 9 ways small businesses can survive Trump's tariffsUSA TODAY Money - Rhonda AbramsIt’s time to recognize the facts: The U.S. is in a trade war. Some victims of the war are almost certainly going to be small businesses and small farms. Maybe even yours. Even if your small business does
Bridge the disconnect: 3 strategies to make your home-based employees feel less remoteUSA TODAY Money - Steve StraussQuestion: I have been in business for myself for quite a while and am encountering a new problem. These days, employees increasingly want to work remotely, which is OK with me. While they generally get
Small-business owners: Don't give Facebook, Amazon remote control of your customersUSA TODAY Money - Rhonda AbramsYou’ve got 20,000 followers for your small business on Facebook. You sell hundreds of products a month on Amazon. Your restaurant increased its sales by linking up with an online food delivery service.
This Memphis 10-year-old is already an author and CEO. Now she's launching a shoe lineUSA TODAY Money - Desiree StennettMEMPHIS – When Kinyah Braddock was 6, her father laid out a challenge: He asked her to come up with an idea and launch a business by her 10th birthday. "Apparently, I met that goal," Kinyah, now 10, told
Want to win in the gig economy? Think big, diversify and know your worthUSA TODAY Money - Steve StraussDanny Brewer knew that the entrepreneurial life was for him when he saw that the address of one of his bosses after college was, literally, “No. 1, Easy Street.” This was about a decade ago and soon thereafter
Want to really celebrate Small Business Week? Give entrepreneurs less talk, more actionUSA TODAY Money - Rhonda AbramsIt’s National Small Business Week, so you’ll hear a bunch of platitudes about small business: “Small business is the backbone of the economy, creates new jobs, is the American dream, yada, yada…” All but
More small businesses cashing in on cashless paymentsUSA TODAY Money - Steve StraussI was talking recently with PayPal COO Bill Ready about some easy and simple ways in which small businesses can grow their business. He shared something I thought was key. While most online sellers tend
Take out your small business tech trash. Here's 6 ways to do itUSA TODAY Money - Rhonda AbramsIt’s "Earth Week", so it’s time to talk about how you can help protect the environment in your small business. In particular, what are you going to do with all that tech trash you have? If you own a small
Small Business Earth Day: Small changes at small businesses can add upUSA TODAY Money - Steve StraussThink what you will about President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement (dumb and shortsighted). Think also what you will about the Green New Deal (appropriately
Entrepreneurs, here's how to lower your small business taxesUSA TODAY Money - Rhonda AbramsMy CPA emailed me on a Friday night, letting me know the taxes I’ll have to pay on my small business income. Gulp – those number are high! (Note to CPAs – wait til Monday to clobber small business clients
EyeSeeMe bookstore teaches children the value of African-American historyUSA TODAY Money - Tanisha SykesAs African American parents, Pamela and Jeffrey Blair of St. Louis, Missouri, always taught their four children about their history and helped them to develop a positive self-image. They told stories their
Dwight D. Eisenhower Small-business spring cleaning? Here's how to get at those hard-to-reach digital placesUSA TODAY Money - Steve StraussIs there anything more delicious than first signs of spring –blooming flowers, longer days, warmer nights? Well, an empty inbox might come in a close second. So how about we have our cake and eat it too?
Trump’s small-business health insurance plan struck downUSA TODAY Money - Ricardo Alonso-ZaldivarA federal judge has struck down a small-business health insurance plan widely touted by President Donald Trump, marking the second setback in a week for the administration’s health care initiatives. U.S.
Don't hate, appreciate: Socially responsible small businesses win millennialsUSA TODAY Money - Rhonda AbramsNow, it may seem crazy, or craven, to use a social message to sell skin cream, but there’s an important lesson for you, small business owner, behind this marketing ploy. Today’s millennials expect companies
Baking to escape stress, Michigan woman turns cheesecake into viable businessUSA TODAY Money - Rachel GrecoLANSING, Mich. – DeAnna Ray-Brown was standing under a 10-foot-by-10-foot hot pink tent in single-digit temperatures when it struck her: This might be something. More than a year ago, Ray-Brown was serving
Co-working spaces flourish in the suburbs, drawing moms who seek quiet and camaraderieUSA TODAY Money - Swapna Venugopal RamaswamyDani Geraci opted out of full-time work at an advertising agency after her first child was born. When her second child was 10 months old, Geraci decided it was time to put her business skills back to in
Want more small business shine? Grow your Twitter universeUSA TODAY Money - Steve StraussQuestion: I see that you are very active on Twitter. I am too via my small business, but I have very few followers. What to do? – Jacob Answer: I was definitely a fairly late convert to Twitter. The first
