Pricing, cash flow, money and more.
Insights from Paul Reed who runs Reed & CO an accountancy firm in Bristol, UK. The year 2020 was incredibly tumultuous for business owners. Now, 2021 is well under-way, and we still don't know what kind of market we will be facing. Some predict a fast rebound due to the stimulus money, while others predict...
Customers have become increasingly comfortable buying things online, but many small businesses still have yet to cater their business to this option. In fact, 36% of small businesses still don’t have a website, let alone selling products/services online. Lack of experience, ability, and expertise to launch an offline business online often hold small business owners...
Brock Blake has a very disciplined life. His family, health, early morning routines, and his faith are a few of his daily habits and what's important to him. Over the past year his company, Lendio, has been thrust into the essential role of processing thousands of transactions for small business owners. In the first...
It’s hard to believe it’s been almost a year since the coronavirus pandemic took hold and disrupted every corner of daily life— Main Street being one of them. The past months brought unprecedented strife for small businesses, and the small business owners that have managed to keep their doors open are fighting hard to...
Accenture Ventures leader Kathryn Ross has advice for black founders that could be initially deemed counter-intuitive. In the middle of the pandemic, Ross says it’s time to actually buckle in and accelerate. And she tells Ramon Ray exactly why she thinks that and how that should be done. Kathryn is well-placed to shares insights about...
We’ve long heard that small businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy. And with 31.7 million such businesses, they are indisputably a powerful economic force. Yet, just as the stock market is a composite of tech, healthcare, consumer and other companies with very different stories to tell, I’ve long believed that the statistics...
Building and maintaining a worthwhile business has always been a monumental task. The march of technology has given entrepreneurs many opportunities to prove themselves and make a profit, but also made it an ultra-competitive endeavor that required a lot of dedication and commitment. The advent of COVID-19 upped the difficulty of the game by...
Kedma Ough and Rashedia Mayhane spoke at the Survive and Thrive Summit about money tips and tools for your small business. Hosted and produced by Ramon Ray of Smart Hustle Media, the first two Summits were held in April and August 2020. The next one will be in this spring of 2021. It's free,...
Ramon spoke with two money experts — Carol Roth and Tricia Taitt — about how to handle finances and money during COVID-19. If you're a business owner, then you know first-hand how rapid the changes in cash flow have been. Did you prepare for something like this? Probably not, but that's ok! Most businesses didn't....
Getting your startup off the ground can be daunting. There is a lot to do, and it's hard to do alone. And then there is business growth — being able to scale and expand. Some of the hardest challenges businesses face are around this topic of growth. It takes more than just making money....
