New Survey Reveals the Most Business-Friendly Cities and States

New Survey Reveals the Most Business Friendly Cities and States

Starting a business is more than just creating a product or service, renting space, and putting an Open sign in the window; there are also plenty of legal and governmental compliance hoops that you have to jump through. Many of these regulations are made at the city and state level, which means that cities...

How Facebook Messenger is Changing Small Business Communication

How Facebook Messenger is Changing Small Business Communication

In 2014, Facebook moved its messaging feature out of the main app and into a standalone Messenger app. Like any change, there was a fair amount of outrage that followed, and Mark Zuckerberg admitted that “asking everyone in our community to install a new app is a big ask.” That said, two years later, the...

Lessons from Amazon 3 Rules for Business Expansion

3 Lessons in Business Expansion Taken from Amazon’s Playbook

Recently, Amazon announced that it will be expanding into private label consumable products, which has us wondering: Is there anything Amazon cannot do? Ever since starting out as nothing more than an online bookseller, Amazon has followed a very calculated growth path. Let’s take a closer look at this new move to show how you...

New Snapchat Advertising - Target Millenials with Video Ads

New Snapchat Advertising: Target Millenials with Video Ads

Snapchat arrived on the social media scene in 2011 as a platform where users could share “snaps” of photos or short videos, which can be edited and shared individually or grouped into “stories” that are shared publically or just with friends. Five years after its arrival, Snapchat now has 100 million active daily users...

3 Important Family Discussions to Have Before Starting a Business

3 Important Family Discussions to Have Before Starting a Business

At Smart Hustle, we like to focus on the entrepreneur or small business owner, but when it comes down to it, starting a business impacts the entire family. The decision to leave a traditional 9-5 with a steady income and venture out on your own has consequences for family and spousal relationships. Growing the...

Regulated Crowdfunding Opens Small Business Investments So Anyone Can Be a Shark

Regulated Crowdfunding Opens Small Business Investments So Anyone Can Be a Shark

Small business owners often struggle with funding their business, choosing to bootstrap or use credit cards and loans because it’s hard to get in front of wealthy venture capitalists (and even harder to win these investors over.) On Monday, May 16, all of this changed with new Regulated Crowdfunding rules that will make it easier...

Top 9 Small Business Discussion Groups

Top 9 Small Business Discussion Groups for Entrepreneurs

Soliciting advice from experts and peers is important for all small business owners who want to build and grow their businesses. While there are plenty of networking events to attend both nationally and locally, the internet has allowed for mentoring relationships to be formed easily online as well. Small business discussion groups can be...

Cross-border sales

PayPal’s Tips to Grow Your Business Through Cross-Border Sales

Geographic borders used to represent real divisions between where you could and couldn’t sell your products, but the global online marketplace has made borders a thing of the past. Now, more than ever, consumers around the world are willing to do business with a company that is located in a different country. Recognizing the...

Social News Feed Reordering

What the Social News Feed Reordering Means for Your Small Business

Social news feeds are changing on many of the major social media sites, altering the way stories are displayed – and if they are even displayed at all. The Facebook and Twitter announcements came in February 2016 while the Instagram announcement was made in March 2016. Social news feed reordering has important implications for...