Posts by Carl Brabander
Small Business Outlook Positive Despite Slow Start to 2023
The small business outlook is always in flux due to macroeconomics. And there’s been no shortage of challenges for Small Business owners since the start of 2023; from continuing rising interest rates, narrowing access to credit through traditional banks, sudden bank closures and ongoing staffing issues, the hits kept coming. If you read the headlines…
Read MoreSurvey: Nearly 70% of Small Business owners will reinvest for a recovery
We continue sharing ZING survey results highlighting the challenges and growth opportunities for Small Businesses during the global health pandemic. Survey responses represent the views of US Small Business owners that survived the first wave of closures and were open for business in September 2020. Survey Highlight: Nearly 70% of Small Businesses plan to reinvest for…
Read MoreSurvey Results part 1: “How has your business been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic?”
This is the first in a series of ZING survey results highlighting the challenges and growth opportunities for Small Businesses during the global health pandemic. Survey responses represent the views of US Small Business owners that have survived the first wave of closures and were open for business in September 2020. Highlight: 38.7% of Small…
Read MoreBeauty Moves: Small Business, Big Comeback. Powered by ZING
What do you do when your entire business is shut down by a global pandemic? If you’re Marc Baron, owner of Beauty Moves Spa, you reinvent how your business is done – and find a financing partner that can move as fast as you! BACKGROUND 2020 was going to be a banner year for Marc’s…
Read MoreSmall Business will Lead the Recovery. Again.
It has been a great decade for Small Business; since the 2009 recession we have grown in numbers every year and have seen our incomes almost double. And what’s good for small business is good for everyone: we also created most of the new private sector jobs in the country, drove innovation and produced a…
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