Happy festival season! As Columbus finally gets back outdoors, so come the markets, festivals and more – Sunlight Market, Moonlight Market, ComFest, Independent’s Day, Made Local Marketplace. All showcase the creative talents of Central Ohio’s artisans. Festivals are a great opportunity for artisans that don’t have their own storefront or primarily sell online to get in […]
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Business conferences provide entrepreneurs a great platform to both grow their network and expand their knowledge and understanding of important industry topics that can impact bottom lines. When you make the choice to attend a conference, you’re making an important investment in your business – in exchange for your time and the fee, you can […]
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According to the Small Business Administration, about 80 percent of businesses started in 2014 survived to 2015. Wait a few more years, and there’s a five-year survival rate of about 50 percent. A small business has about a 33 percent chance of making it to the decade mark. Powell-based advertising agency LaineGabriel is one of those […]
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Energy efficiency improvement projects provide small business owners and entrepreneurs with the opportunity to invest in their companies and communities, with a net improvement to their bottom line. Considering that the average commercial building wastes 30 percent of its energy, according to Energy Star––there are numerous ways to increase efficiency and it can start with […]
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As a business owner, hiring is an endless battle. Figuring out when to hire, who to hire and how much to pay them is all important, because at the end of the day, employers want the best talent. And to acquire – and keep – that talent, business owners need to incentivize them enough to […]
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Val Geisler equates finding the space for her proposed coworking concept, The Hive, to the equivalent of a full-time job. The challenges she faces are many, and likely a familiar story to any business owner who has been through the space search. For other startups diving in, Geisler spares no detail of what the search […]
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Straight from an investing team and featuring a deck that landed a local entrepreneur an investment, Darshan Vyas, co-founder of LOUD Capital and Dave Hunegnaw, LOUD partner and founder of BYLINED, outlined what makes a strong pitch deck at a recent Startup Week event. If you plan to approach an investor, “A pitch deck is essential,” Vyas […]
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Brand: it’s a simple word with a seemingly complicated meaning. “Brand is the sum total of everything a company does, how it interacts with the world, and how the world perceives it,” says Barry Enderwick. An experienced brand and marketing leader, Enderwick was part of a little company called Netflix during its transition from DVD […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was updated on 1/6/2020 to reflect changes in penalties for taxes not remitted in a timely manner. Do you host admissions-based events within the City of Columbus? Then your business might need to be paying the new Admissions Tax. The Admissions Tax quietly went into effect on July 1, 2019. Supporting […]
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When launching a business, there are many places to turn to for advice. An unlikely place may be a reality-show-meets-documentary-meets-competition, but once you start watching Stylish with Jenna Lyons, you’ll totally understand why its a great show to watch when you want to study how to be a great boss. Pitched by HBO as a […]
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