As a young business owner focused on social entrepreneurship, Mikaila Ulmer is inspiring others with her success. In fact, the 15-year-old believes that her flourishing business, Me & the Bees, shows that the future is all about social entrepreneurs. Mikaila spoke with Ramon Ray at the recent Survive and Thrive Growth Summit. Thanks to Dell,...
More than 12 million people follow Casey Neistat on YouTube. His unique film-making style has inspired a whole generation of content creators. His thriving media company also creates engaging videos for brands. But it was not always that way. In many ways, Casey is an unlikely success story, according to Guy Raz's feature of the...
What's one statistic that matters tremendously for small businesses? Customer loyalty. In other words: Are customers coming back? This is especially important in today’s business climate, as small businesses will need to prepare for a post-pandemic world. On September 15 the Customer Amazement Summit will go live online and show entrepreneurs how to deliver an amazing...
If you want a better community, you need to put your money where your mouth is. In other words, you need to have a hard look at where you're spending your money. And according to Eric Groves, founder and CEO of Alignable, it better be on local businesses. In a recent conversation with Ramon Ray about...
An upside to the pandemic according to small business owners is the adoption of digital B2B payments. Mastercard found in a recent study that 57% of small businesses increased their use of digital systems for business-to-business payments amid the COVID-19 crisis. A majority of business owners (82%) said they changed the way their business sends and...
Employees of small businesses are more concerned about their financial health than their physical health amid the pandemic. According to a new study by MetLife, 55% of small business employees express concern about their financial health during the COVID-19 crisis. That’s higher than the 41% who worry about their physical health. In fact, concern about financial...
American Express is buying Kabbage, the fintech company focused on SMEs. At first glance, the acquisition may seem like a standard acquisition by a financial services giant. However, it has several implications to small business financing that are more noteworthy than they seem. American Express says that it is buying “substantially all” of the Atlanta-based...
It’ll take more than the vast pandemic impact on businesses to bring down most entrepreneurs. Many businesses reopened following safety guidelines and have held on to the hope of bouncing back. A new study released by GoDaddy found that 71% of entrepreneurs around the world expect their business to recover in a year. That’s 45% who...
Recent tension has flared up across the country about equality and biases. Diversity, especially workplace diversity, is once again one of the top-of-mind topics for businesses. Jim Fitzpatrick and I got to talk about diversity in a recent episode of the Atlanta Small Business Show. We talked about three ways that business leaders can navigate this...
Small businesses should be vigilant as government aid amid the coronavirus pandemic is seen drying up. A new study by LendingTree found that the end of federal aid has the potential to cause a small business crisis. Entrepreneur and keynote speaker Ramon Ray commented that Covid-19 has sapped the cash flow of millions of small...
