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Elicia & Matt Brum
Marissa Scott
Local Business Spotlights

Business Spotlight: Brum’s Ultimate Repair

Brum’s Ultimate Repair in Dartmouth has a customer-focused approach that stems from their all-hands-on-deck family business model.

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Marissa Scott
Business

5 Tips for Adding Ecommerce to Your Business Strategy

Whether you’re considering ecommerce as a way to expand your reach, or to better serve your existing customers, there are some basic things you should hash before getting started.

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Marissa Scott
Business

7 Ways to Strengthen Your Business’s Cybersecurity

Cyber attacks are predicted to double by 2025 in the U.S. due to an increase in technological capabilities. Here are 7 ways to strengthen your business’s cybersecurity efforts.

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Marissa Scott
Business

5 Steps to Starting a Business

If you’re looking to create a business of your own, here are 5 initial steps to help get you started.

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Marissa Scott
Business

6 Ways to Harness Technology for Your Small Business

Embracing change and adopting some of the latest tech advances could have lasting benefits for your business.

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Marissa Scott
Business

3 Tips for Handling Fast Growth as a Small Business

While growth is certainly a positive thing, it’s not always easy to handle unexpected increases in business.

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Marissa Scott
Business

What Benefits Should a Small Business Offer its Employees?

One way to help ensure that you don’t lose good workers as a small business owner is to offer valuable employee benefits.

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Marissa Scott
Business

Buying vs. Leasing Commercial Real Estate

The decision to buy or lease commercial property will come down to your financial situation and your unique business needs.

Marissa Scott
Business

How to Establish a Credit History for Your Business

As a business owner, it is important to build up a credit history for your business, separate from your own personal credit history.

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Marissa Scott
Business

Creating a Marketing Strategy for Your Small Business

A marketing plan should define your marketing strategy and end goals, as well as your target audience and the type of marketing content that will help you reach them.

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Marissa Scott
Business

Project Management for Your Small Business

Review some of the benefits of project management and explore some tools and resources that can help you streamline the process for your business.

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Marissa Scott
Business

Video Marketing for Small Businesses

Video is quickly becoming the medium of the internet with businesses running video ads on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.

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Marissa Scott
Business

Securing Financing for a Home-Based Business

Home businesses have access to a good number of business loan and financing options, even if they don’t have as many choices as larger companies do.

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Marissa Scott
Business

Employee Retention Strategies for Small Businesses

As a small business owner, you want your employees to stick around, especially after you’ve invested significant time and money into them.

Victoria Stockbarger, Kevin Wong, Lynn Motta, Tymofey Wowk
Marissa Scott
Local Business Spotlights

Local Business Spotlight: Clean Technique

Kevin Wong and his team saw the need for more manufacturing infrastructure within the cannabis industry. From this, Clean Technique was born.

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Marissa Scott
Business

4 Tips for Fairly Paying Your Employees When Inflation is High

Attracting and keeping employees is always challenging for small businesses, but the economy has the potential to make it even more difficult.

EforAll Rhode Island 2023 Winter Accelerator alumni Thrive Tribe Cafe
BankFive
Local Business Spotlights

Community Partner Spotlight: Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll)

On this National Small Business Week, we salute our community partner Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll).

Marissa Scott
Business

5 Tax Tips for Small Businesses

Tax time can be a headache for many Americans, and it can be even worse for small business owners. Here are 5 tax tips to help make the process a little smoother.