Over the last five years, the U.S. has averaged more than 17 major weather or climate-related disasters annually, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information. Hurricanes, wildfires and other…
Author archives: Rosalie Murphy
How to Bounce Back After a Business Fails
For small-business owners, failure isn’t an option — it’s a reality. For example, consider the roughly 733,000 businesses that launched in the U.S. in the year leading up to March…
How to Benefit From Corporate Pledges to Minority Businesses
Since the start of 2020, companies from Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase to Google and Twitter have pledged billions of dollars to support entrepren…
5 Steps to Turn Your Side Gig Into a Full-Fledged Business
In 2017, Courtney Lynn Ottrix started blogging about things to do in Cleveland. She’d done some freelancing in the past, and the blog offered occasion…
Ready to Hire Your First Employee? Prep With These 6 Steps
Despite the pandemic, the IRS received more than 7 million requests for new employer identification numbers between January 2020 and June 2021, accord…