small.opinions Op-eds written by small business owners, sharing personal perspectives about the realities, challenges, and opportunities for small businesses globally. Whether you’re a small business owner or you know someone whose voice should be heard, we want to hear from you! The Real Risk of Scaling Too Soon in a Small Business People love to talk about growth like it is always good news. More customers. More orders. More visibility. More locations. More staff. More sales. From the outside, it sounds like the dream. The business is growing. The market is responding. People want what you sell. The thing is working.Read More → What ‘It’ll Never Work’ Is Really Telling Your Small Business In 1976, I was a young employee at Walt Disney Productions. During a brainstorming session in Burbank, I suggested releasing our cartoons on a new format: videotape. The company’s president, Card Walker, looked at me and said:Read More → Stop Calling It Sustainability If It Doesn’t Make Your Business Better “I’m sorry, but we just don’t have the budget for sustainability.” I’ve heard some version of that sentence more times than I can count. Early in my journey as a small business owner, I used to leave those meetings frustrated. I had the data. I had the research. I could explain the environmental impact of…Read More → The Energy Mistake Every Small Business Owner Is Making Right Now As someone who has spent years supporting and building large complex technology systems, I’ve noticed something interesting: the energy industry is following the same trend wireless technology did 40 years ago. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, conversations around wireless technology were very different from what they are today.Read More → Being a Strong Woman Is Not a Business Strategy There is a kind of woman people love to praise. She gets things done. She handles pressure. She does not fall apart in public.Read More → An Opportunity I See in the Creator Economy Growing up in a musical family, I always knew I wanted to pursue music. When I graduated high school, I was set on becoming a charted musical artist, and to be candid, that plan has never left me.Read More → Stop Teaching Entrepreneurship, Start Building Infrastructure I’ve sat in rooms full of aspiring entrepreneurs, pens moving, heads nodding, notebooks filling with ideas. I’ve also watched many leave inspired but not equipped.Read More → Jerome Archer Shares Lessons from 27 Years in Business Keeping a small business alive for twenty-seven years is no small feat. It is a marathon that tests endurance, adaptability, and heart.Read More → Golf for the Small Business Professional Isn’t About Performance, It’s About Positioning When most people think about golf, they think about skill. Perfect swings. Beautiful scenery. Clean contact.Read More → Trust Is Your Business Strategy, You Don’t Know It Yet An invisible force shapes your business, your relationships, decisions, leadership, and results. It affects how your team performs, how customers choose, and how fast opportunities appear or disappear.Read More → Pitch Before You’re Ready For a long time, I thought I was being strategic. I said yes to podcast interviews when they came my way, spoke at the occasional summit, and collaborated when someone else reached out first.Read More → I Did Everything Right, and Nobody Noticed. Here’s Why I spent almost two years trying to figure out why my coaching business wasn’t gaining traction. I was posting consistently, refining my offers, and showing up to networking events.Read More → Uganda’s Golden Grain Is Hiding in Plain Sight, And It’s Lifting Millions Out of Poverty Drive through Uganda’s countryside, and you will see it everywhere: maize.Read More → The Life of a Small Manufacturer in South Africa Look, let me tell you straight. Being a small manufacturer in South Africa is like running the Comrades Marathon in gumboots.Read More → The Death of the Soloist: Why ‘Project Stacking’ is the Only Way to Outsmart the LinkedIn Algorithm If you post alone, your signal is thin. But when you stack projects, you create a high-density signal that the algorithm will amplify.Read More → 1 2 3 Next Page