small.advice Practical and actionable videos and articles based in the Silver Lining silv=r™ methodology that help small business owners set and hit their growth goals. small.advice also brings in advice from leaders from across the globe that will help small businesses grow. The Business Plan Isn’t Always the Plan: Three Lessons Entrepreneurship Taught Me After spending more than 20 years in corporate America and nearly a decade as a small business owner, I’ve learned something that no business plan could have fully prepared me for: entrepreneurship is a continuous learning experience.Read More → How to Turn a Skill Into a Business, Even With Limited Resources Turning a passion into a business is not always easy, especially when you have limited resources and must build your brand from the ground up. I know because I have done it.Read More → The Woman Behind the Business: 5 Ways to Protect Your Health, Energy, and Entrepreneurial Performance When you own a small business, it is easy to focus on everything the business needs: customers, marketing, finances, technology, deadlines, and growth. But small business owners often overlook one part of the business plan: the person behind it.Read More → How to Turn a Homemade Product into a Brand Customers Remember Many small businesses start with something simple: a skill, a hobby, a family recipe, or something people repeatedly tell us we are good at. For me, it was cooking spicy food and, through that, developing my love for chillies. I was about 12 when my older sister started teaching me in the kitchen.Read More → Building a Stronger Mindset: Small Steps, Big Growth As the owner of Crawford Education Plus, I believe education is about more than learning facts and passing tests. It is also about learning how to believe in yourself, make good choices, solve problems, and keep going when things get difficult. A strong mindset does not mean you never feel afraid, tired, disappointed, or unsure.…Read More → Referrals Aren’t a Favor — They’re a Business Strategy Ask most small business owners how they feel about requesting referrals, and you’ll hear something like, “It feels like imposing.” In a recent YouTube video, Ted Reiniger argued that this discomfort usually comes from treating the ask as a personal favor instead of what it is: a business development activity with its own process, tracking,…Read More → How Small Business Owners Are Actually Using AI to Market Smarter Aishah Coleman, an architecture and interior design business owner, taught an audience through the tools and habits that have reshaped how she runs her marketing — no technical background required.Read More → How to Stop Wasting Money on Ads That Don’t Convert When I started growing my business online, I learned quickly: getting traffic isn’t the same as getting sales. As small business owners, it’s exciting to see clicks, impressions, and website visitors going up. But at the end of the month, those numbers don’t pay the bills. Sales do.Read More → Your Small Business Doesn’t Need More Marketing, It Needs a System Most small business owners try to do marketing and sales at the same time, in the same breath, without ever separating the two. They post on LinkedIn because someone told them to. They sent an email because it had been a while since the last one. There’s activity, sometimes a lot of it, but no…Read More → 6 Pieces of Advice Every Small Business Owner Needs to Hear For this year’s small.news anniversary, we are exploring small business owners’ toughest questions about time, money, accountability, and the slow, unglamorous work of actually growing a business.Read More → Becoming a Scientific Founder: Why Your Business Needs a Time Budget Many founders start their journey fueled by inspiration, visionary ideas, and the thrill of human connection. To them, the word “science” might evoke memories of tedious lab reports, rigid mathematical formulas, unemotional or sterile academic environments.Read More → How to Build Thought Leadership in Your Industry Without Waiting to Feel Ready When most small business owners hear “thought leadership,” they probably think of bestselling authors, keynote speakers, CEOs with thousands of LinkedIn followers, or people being interviewed on major news outlets.Read More → Capital That Fuels Growth: How Small Businesses Can Fund Their Next Chapter If there’s one thing I hear consistently from small business owners across the country, it’s this: “I’m ready to grow, but I’m not sure where to find the capital to get there.”Read More → How to Build a Business That Reflects Who You Are For years, I fantasized about becoming a small business owner. Yet I held on to an idea of success centered around a corporate career, an impressive title, and a good salary.Read More → The Emergency Kit Every Business Owner Needs Somewhere between the business name registration and the first logo draft, somebody told you to write a business plan. And they were right. A business plan matters. It gives your idea structure, your goals a timeline, your vision something to stand on. No argument there.Read More → 1 2 3 … 5 Next Page