Small Business Blog
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 MoreExploring your Options: Financing Considerations for Small Business
Are you a Small Business with big plans? If so, chances are you are considering how to finance your next phase of development. The taking of a loan marks an important event in the life of a company. Sometimes it is necessary to survive a temporary setback, but hopefully it means you have a plan…
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 and the American Dream
The pursuit of happiness: one of our most important rights as Americans is the right to chase our dreams. And for many of us, nothing better represents the American Dream than building our own successful business, and creating a safe and comfortable life for our families. This July 4th comes on the heels of over…
Read MoreHow to Make Business Financing Part of Your 2020 Comeback Strategy
How to Make Business Financing Part of Your 2020 Comeback Strategy Green shoots: sometimes they are hard to spot. But even in these tough times, we can spot a few that give Small Business owners cause for cautious optimism. Summer is here, the number of Covid-19 fatalities has shown some recent signs of levelling off…
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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