Podcast: An interview with Small-Mart.org’s Michael Shuman

What has changed in the economy to cause such a surge in the number of microbusinesses that are staying micro over the last decade or so?
Why, if there is so much evidence that microbusiness development work better than smoke stack chasing, do policy makers and economists still dismiss the smallest of businesses?
What could President [...]

Podcast: Self-Employment As Middle Class Life Jacket

Apologies for last week. It’s a long story.
I’m particularly pleased with this week’s issue of the Microbusiness News Briefs. It deals, to a very large degree, with nonemployer firms.
There are any number of things you can say about nonemployers and I’ve probably said most of them. But here’s something I found out recently, thanks to [...]

If you accept credit and debit card payments, pay attention

Sometimes, I have trouble explaining to microbusiness owners why it matters that they keep themselves up to speed with public policy.
I have trouble with that because the reasons why it matters seem so obvious to me that it’s difficult to find compelling language to explain it to anybody else. Sort of falls under the [...]

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