It’s no secret that small companies struggled via the pandemic, and a few are nonetheless scuffling with the impacts of the pandemic – greater enter prices, altering shopper habits and better labor prices, if they’ll even discover the employees. Kind of lengthy haul COVID for companies.
Nevertheless, the resiliency of small companies ought to by no means be underestimated. For a lot of entrepreneurs, their can-do angle is what motivated them to begin their enterprise within the first place and that very same angle is what helped them pivot and persevere via the pandemic.
Small Enterprise Saturday was created to assist small companies seize a bigger piece of shopper spending in the course of the vacation season. This 12 months, Small Enterprise Saturday is on Nov. 26 and can mark the 13th 12 months People have elevated their efforts to assist our hometown small companies.
In response to American Specific, final 12 months consumers got here collectively in full power to assist their native communities, and Small Enterprise Saturday hit a report excessive with an estimated $23.3 billion in reported spending at impartial retailers and eating places.
Let’s sustain the momentum — small companies nonetheless want our assist now greater than ever as they proceed to combat the long-term results of the pandemic and transition to steady, regular development.
America’s 33 million small companies, 75,000 of them from North Dakota representing 98.8 p.c of all ND corporations, want our assist to “Store Small” all through this vacation season and on Small Enterprise Saturday. Please be part of me by procuring at your native small enterprise and eating at an independently owned restaurant in the course of the vacation season and all 12 months lengthy.
