There’s no easy way to say this: America’s small businesses are dying. Small businesses in some industries—retail, restaurant, travel, hospitality—now can be considered an endangered species. If you want to help them survive, if you want your own small business to survive, the most important thing you can do is simple: wear a mask. Wear …
Small Businesses Need to Expand Credit Now
Right now, every small business owner needs every dollar they can get their hands on. Whether you currently need money or not, it’s time to improve your credit score and increase your credit limits. Let’s be realistic. Covid-19 didn’t magically disappear with warmer weather and infections are once again on the rise. Consumers won’t return …
Small Biz Update: PPP Forgiveness Changes!
FACEBOOK LIVE EVENT THIS WEEK Please join me for my Facebook Live event: Tuesday June 9, 1pm EDT/10am PDT Update on the new rules on PPP forgiveness and strategies to help your business survive. Go here to join or to watch later. And if someone forwarded you this newsletter, you should sign up here. NEW DATE! Tuesday, …
Small Biz Update: PPP Forgiveness Strategies & America at a Crossroads
Here’s the latest… PPP FORGIVENESS PROCESS AND HELP The SBA is making the process for receiving forgiveness for your PPP loan unnecessarily difficult for small businesses at a time when small businesses are reeling from the pandemic and now are facing potentially longer closures due to civic unrest. They could have easily created a simple …
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Small Biz Update: PPP Loan Changes Coming?
FACEBOOK LIVE EVENT NEXT WEEK Please join me for my Facebook Live event: Tuesday, June 2nd, 1pm EDT/10am PDT Update on PPP, financing, and strategies to help your business survive. Go here to join or to watch later. And if someone forwarded you this newsletter, you should sign up here. MARK YOUR CALENDARS June 9th I’ll be …
Fix PPP Forgiveness Now
Congress and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin: If you truly care about the survival of America’s small businesses, fix the forgiveness provisions of the Payroll Protection Program (PPP) and fix them fast. Moreover, we need additional help for millions of small businesses who are facing annihilation. PPP forgiveness provisions are, in a word, a mess. Right …
Small Biz Update: PPP Loan Forgiveness Strategies
FACEBOOK LIVE EVENT THIS WEEK Please join me for my Facebook Live event: Tuesday 1pm EDT/10am PDT Update on PPP, financing, and strategies to help your business survive. Go here to join or to watch later. And if someone forwarded you this newsletter, you should sign up here. PPP loan forgiveness strategies For those of you …
Teaching Crisis Management in the Midst of a Crisis
Content and assignments to make your business course content come alive now! Right now is, as they say, a “teachable moment.” If ever you wanted your business students to learn the critical importance of crisis management as part of their business education, there’s probably no better time than now, in the midst of a global …
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Daily Update: The Sh*t’s hit the fan. Now what?
During this crisis, I am doing regular updates to keep small businesses and the self-employed informed of financial support, legislation, resources, and other help available to them. Remember: Just for the time being, I am doing a Facebook Live Monday to Thursday at 1pm EDT/10am PDT on my Facebook page to keep you updated and …
