Between big competition and smaller budgets, small businesses face unique challenges on a daily basis. Fortunately, there are several steps you can take to mitigate these challenges and grow your small business, like taking advantage of social media and banding together with other small business owners. What’s more, you don’t have to do it alone.
National Small Business Week is June 17 – 21 and we’re celebrating with a contest for small businesses and locavores!
As we reach the start of National Small Business Week, we are excited to welcome the support of Chrysler Group LLC. Independent We Stand is proud to announce that Chrysler Group has joined STIHL Inc. and Devoe Paint as the newest partner and co-sponsor of the movement.
Since 1981, Mount Vernon Building Center has supplied the Pacific Northwest with employee expertise and quality building materials. This independent, locally owned business has made a name for itself overseas.
Back in 2004, two college running teammates saw the need for a locally owned running store in St. Louis that would serve the local community with more than just quality products. Today, Big River Running Company has satisfied that need and turned that college dream into a reality with three stores…
The recently released Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity reported that the overall business creation rate dropped from .32 percent of American adults per month in 2011 to .30 percent in 2012. Read more “must-know small business news” from Chrysler Commercial Vehicles…
Dads are notoriously difficult to shop for. Either they’re the type to buy what they want when they want it, or they don’t let on to ever wanting anything. Whichever category your dad falls into, give him the ultimate gift this Father’s Day – the gift of community.
The lumber and building materials business practically runs in the family at the Sequin Lumber Company of Bay County, Michigan. Since 1954, this independent lumberyard has been owned and operated by three generations of the Sequin family.
Bob McCann shares ways that you can easily and cost-effectively stay in touch with customers and prospects to drive more sales.
In time for Memorial Day observance, Wayne Kato, local business owner of Painter’s Warehouse in Honolulu, Hawaii, and his coworkers recently painted the main entrance to Punchbowl National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
