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Did you know that the average cost of staff turnover can be as high as $5,864 per employee? Get off on the right foot with your employees by creating a seamless onboarding process for your small business. This sets them…

Many business owners take the leap into entrepreneurship more out of necessity than to pursue their passion. Sisters Carmen Rodriguez and Gina Madera launched their business Brooklyn Cupcake during the Great Recession after Carmen found herself unemployed. Nine years later,…

Hiring successful employees as a small business owner can be difficult. If you’re a restaurant owner this can be especially tricky, as the food services industry tends to have high staff turnover. However, there are a few ways you focus…

Offering benefits as a small business owner can be expensive – you don’t get the same economies of scale that larger corporations have. It becomes more cost effective per employee to offer a 401(k) plan or health insurance when you…

What led you to make the leap from working for someone else to being your own boss? For Linda Gregory and Sybil Forsythe, co-owners of Family Choice Home Care, they saw an opportunity in the home care market in Kentucky…

Takeaways from our “How She Built This” panel events As part of National Women’s Small Business month, we hosted “How She Built This” panels and invited successful female entrepreneurs to our offices in New York and Denver to share their…

Did you know that just 31 years ago women were legally unable to obtain a business loan in the U.S. without a male relative co-signing? After the passing of HR 5050: Women’s Business Ownership Act of 1988, which eliminated discriminatory…

Thankfully, we’ve said goodbye to many tired myths about women in the workforce. While a great deal of progress has occurred over the past 50 years, several myths about women in business continue to permeate work culture in the U.S.…

What drove you to start your small business? For our customer Leah Retamozo, the 2008 economic crash led her to start her St. Paul, MN-based immersion preschool, Bilingual Child Care and Education Center. Up until the recession hit, Leah was…