Insurance Insights
Leadership Meets Small Business Liability Insurance
As the leader of your small business, you take on a lot of responsibilities, one of which includes ensuring your employees are properly trained and otherwise capable of handling their duties.
Small Businesses Not Seeing Hurricane Sandy Aid Quickly Enough
After Hurricane Sandy hit the eastern seaboard last October, many small businesses were decimated.
Small Businesses Still Facing Some Hiring Issues
These days, with the economy slowly improving and more small business owners expressing a larger amount of interest in taking on new workers as they attempt to expand their firms, many issues related to finding and hiring the right employees may still linger.
Beauty Supplies Store Insurance
Beauty supply stores provide many beauty and hair products and accessories including cosmetics and tools, skin care products, nail polish and nail care products, hair products and styling tools, hair removal products, and similar products. Many beauty supply stores are open to the public, while others only sell to hair stylists, salons, and barber shops. Men, women, and teens frequently buy their beauty supplies from these types of stores, whether through a brick and mortar store or online.
Does My Small Business Need a Program to Prevent Illness and Injury?
You’ve probably heard the phrase, “Prevention is the best cure,” many times over the years. It will never be more real to you than the moment when something bad happens, that would otherwise have been catastrophic, had you not taken some sort of preventative action. Whether it’s a house fire or car accident when insurance prevented things from getting even worse or a computer meltdown you salvaged by saving your business proposal or project in the cloud or on a thumb drive, prevention came make a hardship more bearable.
NABE: Consumer Spending Outlook More Bullish
Consumer spending is expected to rise markedly in 2013, which could lead to additional business at small retailers.
Small Business Owners Must Familiarize Themselves with ACA compliance
The date by which employers with 50 or more employees working 30-plus hours per week must extend them health insurance coverage is rapidly approaching, and owners with these small business insurance needs will likely need to do more to educate themselves about their obligations and potential costs to avoid paying more than they have to.
The Importance of Social Media to Small Businesses
These days, consumers are living more and more of their lives online, but in many cases, small businesses may not be doing enough to connect with their many potential customers on that level.
Safety and Health Risks in the Retail Industry
Working in the retail industry can be rewarding and profitable, but also poses its own set of risks. While some believe a retail business is too risky, others contend that as long as you protect your business from these risks with insurance, you can still run a successful business. Before deciding what business insurance policies to obtain, you should review and consider the biggest risks to your unique business. That said, two primary categories of risks in most industries, including retail, are safety and health.
