I was on a small business webinar last week with Brian Moran of Small Business Edge and he was talking about the next pandemic. He wasn’t discussing the next wave of COVID-19. Brian was telling us that the next pandemic coming was an employee mental health crisis.
This hit me hard given everything that employees […]
I surveyed small business owners a few weeks ago to see how many of them would require a COVID Vaccine before coming back to the office (exceptions for religious beliefs or medical conditions). I also wondered if they would keep unvaccinated employees working from home. Here are the results:
47% Yes
40% No
13% Unsure
As you might expect, […]
With the year-end stimulus bill that was recently passed, a change was made to allow companies that claimed PPP loans to now also claim the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) with wages that were not utilized as qualified expenses in the forgiveness of the PPP loan.
For 2020 & 2021, the combined credit could be up to […]
With the new year underway, now is the time to anticipate 2021 trends and consumer behavior shifts— and develop strategies and tactics that will resonate with consumers in the year ahead. 2020 was a unique and challenging year. But entrepreneurs and small business owners are a resilient group. Even with the uncertainty of 2020, many […]
Ah, who could have predicted that a global pandemic would hit the U.S. economy in 2020? Last year, I titled my predictions post “Storms Clouds Gathering” but who could have guessed that it would be a full blown hurricane! Fair to say, my predictions for last year were way off.
Here were my macroeconomic predictions […]
