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10 Tips to Survive a Coming Recession and Other Storms

As local businesses, we’ve learned resilience. In fact, we all probably have a PhD in resilience, at least those of us who survived—make that...

Just when we begin to emerge from pandemic life and try to recoup the lost vacations of the past couple of years, gas prices rise to skyrocket...

Do you have it? Can you find it? Does it exist? These were the questions I recently asked of local business owners through 20 discussions in...

The economic health of America lies not in the accumulation of individual wealth but in the greater exchange of dollars in local communities...

2021 is the “Customer Obsessed” year. If you aren’t speaking to your existing customers about how you can help with their needs, you will...

The pandemic has brought out the best and the worst of us. Or as my father used to say about Louisiana politics, both cream and scum rise to...