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Nick’s Pizza & Pub Wins a $25,000 Slice of Intuit Grant Money
Many small businesses claim to care about their communities. But not all consistently prove it. Nick’s Pizza & Pub of Elgin and Crystal Lake, Illinois has a distinguished track record …
End of Holidays Doesn’t Halt Small-Business Beef with Amazon App
The small-business community has enjoyed an anything-but-cordial relationship with Amazon.com since the e-commerce pioneer launched in 1995. Beyond the challenge Amazon poses to traditional bricks-and-mortar stores simply by virtue of …
Form-A-Corp Wins $25,000 Hiring Grant from Intuit
Helping new small businesses get off the ground is what inspires Adrian Brion (pictured) to get out of bed each morning. And fortunately for Brion and his three employees at …
How to Start a Hyperlocal News Website
Print newspapers may be in a downward spiral, but hyperlocal websites seem to be heating up. Online independent community news sites — West Seattle Blog, The Batavian, and Baristanet, to …
Cupcake Queen Wins a Sweet Treat from Intuit with $25,000 Grant
It’s one of the oldest truths of the culinary art — food prepared with love always tastes better. For more than a decade, Billie Baird has lovingly baked her signature …
Bantom Brings Home $25,000 Hiring Grant to Help Grow Green Business
In return for helping others go green in their businesses, Rhonda Bantom is being rewarded with some green of her own. Bantom’s Detroit, Michigan-based Bantom Global Industries — a contract …
Edible Insect Chef Garners Attention
When Monica Martinez debuted her “pre-Hispanic snackeria” at the San Francisco Street Food Festival in August, customers lined up to try her tacos stuffed with insects and larvae. “Don Bugito …
How to Relocate Your Business to Another State
So you’re thinking about moving to another state. Perhaps you want to be closer to your family. Or you want to lower your cost of living. Or you’ve fallen in …
Aqua Salon Proves a Cut Above The Rest
Pictured: Aqua Salon. Photo courtesy of Noel Buican. Noel Buican of Aqua Salon has even more reason to give thanks this holiday weekend. Her trendy hair and beauty salon in …
5 of America’s Coolest Co-Working Spaces
It can get lonely working from home every day. Coffeehouses aren’t the refuges they used to be: Baristas these days start giving the evil eye to anyone using a laptop …
Bath & Body Bistro Wins $25,000 Hiring Grant
Bath & Body Bistro in Albuquerque, NM is our first November Love A Local Business winner! Intuit is awarding the business with a $25,000 hiring grant. Congratulations! The winning vote …
How to Make the Most of Small Business Saturday
Independent businesses often don’t have the big marketing budget that bigger companies have, and they miss out on the Black Friday shopping stampedes that are common at big-box stores. Last …
R.U.B. BBQ Pub’s Randy Yono on Starting Up During a Downturn
Randy Yono had a hunch that, despite the recession, his family’s concept for a new barbecue restaurant and sports bar in downtown Detroit would work. He and his brothers set …
New York’s Heart and Soul Events Wins $25,000 Grant
Heart and Soul Events in Frankfort, New York is our final October Love A Local Business grant winner! As a recipient of one of our nine $25,000 hiring grants, it …
Congrats to Ferrin Accounting, Mid-October Hiring Grant Winner!
The second winner of our October Love A Local Business Hiring Grants is Ferrin Accounting. Congratulations! The business has been a fixture on Main Street in Platte City, Missouri for …
