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Subscribe Imagine you’re a new business owner, staring at an invoice you don’t understand. Another owner spends an hour helping you...

Subscribe If you’ve ever wrestled a fitted sheet onto a mattress, you understand the problem Bed Scrunchie set out to solve. Its owners...

Subscribe Let’s address the elephant in the room, who is wearing a tiny tariff-shaped hat: your costs went up, and you probably...

Subscribe Small business owners spend plenty of time deciding what to charge. But there is another question worth asking: how are those prices...

Subscribe We’ve all heard (and maybe felt) the panic of Ai replacing workers. And it can. But a new study shows otherwise. For a local business...

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Subscribe Trump’s New SBA Size Standards Call Big Business “Small” — And Main Street Will Pay From our friends at the Institute for Local Self...

Subscribe Our food is scary these days. The almost daily recalls on fresh produce and packaged products for a variety of illnesses and...

Subscribe The Local Business Institute has long joined with our national allies in working to protect the interests of small business across...