{"id":806,"date":"2010-08-21T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expandsmtest.com\/franchiseking\/whats-your-visual-of-a-typical-small-business\/"},"modified":"2016-01-04T14:54:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T14:54:56","slug":"whats-your-visual-of-a-typical-small-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/whats-your-visual-of-a-typical-small-business","title":{"rendered":"What’s YOUR Visual Of a Typical Small Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What do the words "small business<\/strong><\/em>" conjure up in the visual part of your brain?<\/p>\n

Do you picture a thriving specialty machine shop, with it's 2nd-generation owner<\/strong> walking through his shop, stopping occasionally to talk with one of his 50 employees?<\/p>\n

Or is it a 4-employee hardware store, that's trying like heck to compete with the likes of Lowe's or Sears?<\/p>\n

My<\/em> visual of a "small business" used to be something that I would read about in one of Becky McCray's<\/strong> posts about small town\/rural small businesses. Like this one<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It's different now, though. Can you guess why?<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

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In a word, technology<\/span><\/strong>. Technology has helped make small businesses, seem larger than life. Today, a small business could mean a one-person home-based, online business<\/strong>. One that is creating as much revenue, (or more) than that little hardware store down the street. Both are equally important, though.<\/p>\n

Another word that seems to be increasingly important to the world of small business is this one; policy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As you'll see in this increasingly popular mashup of small business news and small business trends<\/strong> that are becoming quite popular over at the Small Business Trends<\/strong> website.
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Policy<\/strong> and technology<\/strong> are trying to mix it up a bit.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n