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Governor Cuomo Launches Investigation Into Chainsmokers' Concert, 'I Am Appalled'

The popular DJ duo performed at a charity drive-in concert in the Hamptons over the weekend.

How to set up Google My Business

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"GMB" is a free tool that allows you customize how your business appears on Google Search and Maps. That includes adding your business name, location, and hours; monitoring and replying to customer reviews; adding photos, and videos, and offers you some insight to how people are finding and selecting your business based off your SEO (search engine optimization). Here is what makes it great... .it's free. Oh, and it's a powerful marketing tool, that is indeed, free!

Keywords, Clicks and SEO: How To Create A Content Strategy

It's not enough to simply post across various platforms. Your content should be girded by a strategy that has search engine optimization (SEO) as its basis.

Calvin Harris, head of Reveille Trading Co., had to pivot fast when COVID-19 disrupted his coffee farmer supply chain.

Starting Up In A Pandemic: Survival Tips From Newbies

A pandemic is not the ideal startup environment. New business owners share survival tips: drastic changes in delivery methods, product suppliers, and more.

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His store closed during COVID, jeweler Jared Silver used the time to launch an online estate-jewelry buying service.

Back from the Backburner: Businesses Turn To Projects They Didn't Have Time For Pre-COVID

COVID-19 shutdowns and slowdowns have had one upside for small businesses: the time to focus on important projects they were too busy to attend to pre-pandemic.

Opening a margin account is certainly not a daunting or complicated process, though trading on margin can be.

How to Open A Margin Account

Opening a margin account is certainly not a daunting or complicated process. Here's what you'll need to do.

Architect Leslie Armstrong on the cover of Interiors magazine.

An Architect Comes of Age in 1960s New York

This excerpt from Leslie Armstrong's Girl Intrepid describes experiences of the kind that beset many entrepreneurial young women in mid-20th century America.

Supply Chain Visibility: The Gold Standard For Every Company

Supply chain visibility: Every company needs it, yet not many know how to achieve it. Here are three key steps to supply chain visibility.

Chocolate Pizza Company owner Ryan Novak misses being able to chat and build rapport with customers.

The COVID Comeback: Companies Cope With Reopening Challenges

From uncertain cash flow to less client contact, re-opening involves many challenges for small businesses. Here's how they're staging their COVID comebacks.

PPP, EIDL, and MSLP loans all come with different restrictions on how their funds can be spent.

How to Spend Your PPP, EIDL, and MSLP Money

Learn how you can and cannot spend Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL), and Main Street Lending Program (MSLP) loans.

The PPP, EIDL, and MSLP all provide important financial support to businesses. But they differ in important ways.

PPP, EIDL And MSLP: A Guide To Government COVID-19 Loans

Comparing the PPP, EIDL, and MSLP loans--the big three government programs for COVID-19 relief--to determine which works best for your small business.

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How To Set Up Google App Passwords

A step-by-step guide to setting up Google App passwords, which, along with 2-step verification, add a second layer of security to your Google Account.

How to Create Instagram Highlights

Instagram story highlights can help you promote your small business. This step-by-step guide shows how to create a highlight, a permanent part of your profile.

General Electric is one company that understands the importance of human interest stories.

How COVID-19 Hasn't Changed Content Marketing At All

How should brands tackle content marketing in a pandemic-influenced world? By remembering this eternal truth: Human interest stories always win.

While easier and quicker to put together, a lean business plan does need to be fresh and frequently updated

What Is A Lean Business Plan?

An evolved version of the traditional business plan, the lean business plan is a live document, reflecting how business itself has changed in the last decade.

4 Steps To A Stronger Supply Chain -- An Analytic Approach

A resilient supply chain means listening to the data. Here's an analytic approach to strengthening your supply chain: four types of data that provide insight.

Instagram business accounts can be a marketing boon to companies.

Connecting With Customers Thru Instagram: A Step-by-Step Guide

Establishing an Instagram business account is easy and intuitive. This step-by-step guide will get you connecting with your customers via Instagram in no time.

Apps and social media play a key part of low-cost marketing campaigns.

Marketing On a Shoestring Budget: 10 Simple Strategies

Successful marketing doesn't need to cost thousands. Here are 10 tips to stretch your shoestring budget, from using word-of-mouth to VIP programs.

Grocery-store supplier Myles Powell started selling a tweaked version of 8 Myles mac-and-cheese meals to consumers.

From Wholesale To Retail: How Companies are Making The Switch

COVID-19 has caused an increasing number of firms to switch from whole to retail. Here's how real-life companies are making the necessary operational changes.

Setting up an e-commerce site can be done on your own, as long as you have the essential elements prepared in advance.

How To Set Up An E-Commerce Store: Tips for DIY-ers

How do you go about setting up an e-commerce store? These 4 tips, listing all the features you need, make it easy for DIY-ers.

Small business credit cards are specifically aimed at companies with less than $4 million in annual revenue.

Why Your Small Business Needs Its Own Credit Card

Wondering what's the big deal with small business credit cards? Learn about the pros and cons, and how they compare to personal and corporate credit cards.

Improving How Employees Work From Home: A Tools and Tech Map

Working from home is the new normal. This map of needs and solutions offers the tools and tech SMBs need to enable employees to work productively and securely.

The New Work-From-Home Tool Is In The Cloud

Unified, cloud-based collaboration solutions put together a slew of resources for SMBs to support the remote worker--making it easy to switch from phone to video call, for example.

The CARES Act offers a tax break for companies that help employees pay their student loan debt.

Helping Workers Pay Student Loans

A new CARES Act tax break allows businesses to provide their employees with up to $5,250 of tax-advantaged payments to use toward student loans in 2020.

Doreen Foxwell, here at the National Yoga Journal Conference in New York City, runs yoga schools in several states.

Reopening A Multi-Location Business: How Companies Cope With Varying Guidelines

For small businesses with locations in multiple areas, re-opening is especially hard to do. Here's how several are negotiating the crazy quilt of guidelines.

Reopening In Several States: How Companies Cope With The Crazy Quilt of Guidelines

For small businesses with locations in multiple areas, re-opening is especially hard to do. Here's how several are negotiating the crazy quilt of guidelines.

Business owners are finding bottom lines further stretched by reentry costs.

How To Re-Open Successfully: 4 Cost-Saving Strategies

As society re-opens, business owners are now grappling with the increased costs of starting up again. These four cost-saving strategies will help.

New and abridged: Two just-released PPP Loan Forgiveness Applications should simplify things for borrowers.

How To Fill Out The New PPP Loan Forgiveness Applications

This analysis of the changes in the original PPP Loan Forgiveness Application and the new streamlined EZ version also explains how to fill out the forms.

New rules to PPP Loans means changes in calculating payroll costs, and thus the amount of loan forgiveness.

How to Calculate PPP Payroll Costs Under The New 24-Week Limit

The new 24-week limit and other changes to PPP Loans means changes in calculating payroll costs, and thus the amount of loan forgiveness.

Economic Injury Disaster Loans and forgivable advances are once again available to small businesses.

EIDL Grants and Loans for SMBs Are Back

The SBA reinstated its EIDL Loan and Loan Advance program for SMBs on June 15, 2020. Loans up to $150,000 and emergency grants up to $10,000 are available.

SylvanSport, a Brevard, NC, maker of outdoor gear, shifted into manufacturing face shields and other PPE.

How To Become A COVID-19 PPE Maker

What's involved in turning a company into a PPE maker and doing so in a matter of days? Here's how several businesses pulled it off.

Businesses needing loans should compare the Paycheck Protection Program and the Main street Lending Program, both recently expanded.

Main Street Lending Program vs. PPP: Which Is Better for Your SMB?

If you're seeking financing for your small business, compare the Main Street Lending Program and PPP, how they work, and when the application deadlines are.