What do struggling small businesses need most? Time – and bankruptcy can provide it

What do struggling small businesses need most? Time – and bankruptcy can provide it

By Brook Gotberg and Paige Marta Skiba, The Conversation The coronavirus pandemic and lockdown forced nearly a third of all small businesses in the United States to close. Some have shut down for good – one estimate puts the percentage at almost 2%, or over 100,000 so far. Those that remain and are gradually opening up must navigate a host of […]

13 Women CEOs Who Made History

13 Women CEOs Who Made History

By Elizabeth Yuko, Reader’s Digest The C-suite gender gap Though women comprise about 47 percent of the U.S. workforce, they make up barely a quarter of all senior executives at large U.S. public companies. The good news is that 2019 saw the highest number of female CEOs at Fortune 500 companies: 33. The bad news […]

The rise and fall of Victoria’s Secret, America’s biggest lingerie retailer

By Mary Hanbury (businessinsider.com)

The rise and fall of Victoria’s Secret, America’s biggest lingerie retailer

Victoria’s Secret the largest American retailer of women’s lingerie. You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in the US who hasn’t come into contact with Victoria’s Secret in one way or another. Since the late 1990s, Victoria’s Secret has been one of the best-known and most talked-about brands in the country — increasingly, not in ways […]

How Rihanna Helped Kill the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show

How Rihanna Helped Kill the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show

By Kayla Kibbe, Inside Hook When Victoria’s Secret finally surrendered its struggling annual fashion show last month, those celebrating the fall of the outdated lingerie extravaganza were quick to credit pop star turned competing lingerie brand founder Rihanna for her role in the show’s demise. Rihanna’s successful Savage x Fenty brand has quickly gained popularity since its […]

Beware of Social Security Scams

Beware of Social Security Scams

Social Security phone scams are the #1 type of fraud reported to the Federal Trade Commission and Social  Security. Over the past year, these scams—misleading victims into making cash or gift card payments to avoid arrest for Social Security number problems—have skyrocketed. Social Security encourages you to use the new online form to report Social Security phone […]

Business Plans Help You to Run Your Business

Business Plans Help You to Run Your Business

A good business plan guides you through each stage of starting and managing your business. You’ll use your business plan as a roadmap for how to structure, run, and grow your new business. It’s a way to think through the key elements of your business. Business plans can help you get funding or bring on […]

Why You Must Have a Business Plan

It's more than a tool for getting funding. Think of it as the road map to your business's future. (entrepreneur.com)

Why You Must Have a Business Plan

By Stever Robbins, Entrepreneur (Photo: Shutterstock.com) Recently someone asked me why they needed a business plan if they were getting all the funding they needed from friends and relatives. It sounded to me as if they were thinking of a business plan as just a fund-raising tool. In fact, a business plan is much more […]

Top 5 Reasons to Become a Certified Travel Agent and Destination Specialist

Certified Travel Agents and Destination Specialists get offers for free and discount travel from major travel suppliers

Top 5 Reasons to Become a Certified Travel Agent and Destination Specialist

(By Victoria Falk) As we move into the busiest travel season of the year, it is the perfect time to become a Certified Travel Agent and Destination Specialist.  Many people think that summer vacation generates the most travel requests each year. However, it is the holiday season, beginning the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and ending a […]

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