Idaho SBDC: Innovation for Small Businesses Ann Swanson – Idaho SBDC | Nov 26, 2024 The “I” word is a business world darling, but it is thrown around so often, its meaning gets fuzzy and often reserved for the elite. Innovation comes up on the covers of slick magazines and posts about the wonders of Silicon
“Bringing Essential Services to Pocatello’s Underserved: The Laundry Barn Story” Ed Welsh first came to the SBDC in 2021 for advice on buying a business. After consultant Claudia Allen helped him and his partner realize it was overpriced and had zoning issues, they decided not to buy it. In May of 2023, he again
You Have Another Form to File. Regulations. Forms. Registrations Not the best hook for news of great importance to the entire business community. How about this? Five hundred dollars a day for non-compliance. Penalties are steep for the new law under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) that requires all corporations (LLCs, S-Corps and C-Corps)
Bookkeeping Help Where do you keep your books? In a nook? Or in a box? On a spreadsheet? Or with your socks? Apologies to Dr. Seuss. When I talk to small business owners about bookkeeping, almost no one ever says, “yes, that’s my favorite part!” Small business owners are experts at whatever they do:
Culture for Breakfast, Employees for Lunch Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Strategy eats marketing for breakfast. Marketing eats sales for breakfast. What are your serving your sales people for breakfast? Culture. If you followed my flashy analogy this far, thanks! I’ve read a lot on culture and its importance, and I am sure
Small Business, Big Impact Ever wonder how your local coffee shop / restaurant / physical therapy practice got started? If they started and stayed in business, there is a good chance they went to the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) for help. In the past decade, the SBDC has worked with over 1000 small
