Insurance Insights

During his recent State of the Union address, President Barack Obama said he wouldn’t wait for Congress to approve an increase in the federal minimum wage and would instead sign an executive order to push it through himself.

In the past year or more, many small business owners across the country have likely turned their attentions to finding new ways to get the word out about their companies and offerings, such as through online, email, and social media marketing.

If you own and operate a retail store, you have more to be concerned about than your profit margins and deciding how to best advertise your business. You also have to be careful of various types of crimes, particularly with retail theft. There are many different types of retail theft, which can originate from your customers, employees and other sources.

Across the country, many small businesses operate on extremely thin margins and as such have to be very careful about their expenditures overall.

Many small business owners across the country are likely concerned already about the ways in which the federal health insurance mandate put into place by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will end up affecting their bottom lines.

Many small business owners across the country may want to be able to expand in the coming months, but that’s almost always more easily said than done.

A topic brought up by President Barack Obama during his State of the Union address was the minimum wage in the U.S., and the ways in which the current level might affect both workers and businesses of all sizes.

The economy has taken many steps forward in the last few years and that, in turn, has allowed small businesses to see greater benefits than they likely have since the start of the recession.

All businesses are looking to improve along with the U.S. economy in the coming year, but the ways in which they may do so could change significantly during that time.

With so many ways in which consumers can buy goods and services these days, it’s important for small businesses in particular to do all they can to get an edge on the competition.