BetterSMB Best practices for small and mid-size businesses

Facebook Inc. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said small businesses will keep choosing the internet to reach their customers even after the pandemic subsides and brick-and-mortar advertising options become more useful. “That digital transformation will continue to happen,” Sandberg said ...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman announced major enhancements to the COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, a federal disaster relief loan designed to better serve and support our small business communities still reeling from the pandemic, ...

A record share of U.S. small-business owners said they had vacant positions in August, and an unprecedented number boosted wages to lure workers, the National Federation of Independent Business said Thursday. Fifty percent of firms had job openings they could ...

The U.S. Congress ramped up its work on President Joe Biden’s economic agenda on Thursday with House committee votes on core pieces of a planned $3.5 trillion tax-and-social-spending budget bill. The key House Ways and Means Committee is at the ...

Bill that passed House last Congress would help rural small business owners access the capital they need to succeed Today, Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03) introduced bipartisan legislation with Rep. Alex Mooney (WV-02) aimed at improving support for rural entrepreneurs and small business ...

The U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”) recently announced that, yet again, the federal government exceeded its small business contracting goal by awarding $145.7 billion dollars in federal prime contracts – 26.01% of the government’s total procurement spending – to small ...

When Delta Air Lines this week announced it would tack on a $200 monthly surcharge for employees refusing to get vaccinated against Covid-19, the news sent ripples across the business world. Suddenly, business owners began to individually wonder if their own vaccination policies go far ...

Entrepreneurship is the perfect way to gain financial independence and professional freedom while also creating value. For an easy start, many new entrepreneurs choose to launch small businesses, preferring industries they are familiar with so they can minimize the risk ...

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) preference programs can be vital for small businesses trying to compete in the potentially lucrative world of U.S. government contracting, but participation in these programs is not without risk. Indeed, the programs can be ...

It goes without saying that your domain name weighs heavily on the success of your online business. More than 600,000 small businesses start each year in the United States, and 64% of them have websites. Choosing a unique domain name can ...

Not giving timely or thoughtful feedback can result in worker dissatisfaction and lead to higher employee turnover. This is a potentially major issue for small businesses, particularly in these times of tight labor. Yet as important as employee reviews are, ...

The Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) has passed a bill that aims to help U.S. small businesses pursue contracting opportunities with the federal government. The Promoting Rigorous and Innovative Cost Efficiencies for Federal Procurement and Acquisitions (PRICE) ...

The Buy American Rule issued by the Biden Administration on July 28 is supposed to significantly increase U.S.-made content in products the federal government buys and support the domestic production of products critical to national and economic security. The Buy ...

Now more than ever, many small business owners are faced with challenges that may seem impossible to overcome. If you are selling to a small business, some of your client’s biggest issues include: 1. Will I be able to bring ...

An amendment offered by Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, which passed the House on July 30 as part of H.R. 4502, would allocate funding for the Small Business Administration to provide real-time status updates for SBA loan applicants and recipients. As ...