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Think it's feasible for small businesses to buy commercial buildings? Think again.
Owner occupant underwriting conventions make it easier for investors, not business owners, to finance commercial real estate purchases, and that's a…
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The physical toll
Running a small business can be hard on aging bodies (like mine)
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Focus on the fundamentals
My 2025 word of the year is "fundamental." Here's how I'm applying that to my business.
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Please stop celebrating Small Business Saturday
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What Storefront Revolt is about in 2025
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Main Street America doesn't quite get us
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A car drove into my business and now everyone loves us for a minute.
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The physical toll
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I was a Bench customer. I'm not surprised they shut down abruptly.
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$355,512 in debt: how we got here
How does a small business accumulate that much debt in five years? I'll explain Fernseed's debt to you one year at a time.
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Time for the Revolt part
How storefront businesses can organize for change by building local power
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What Storefront Revolt is about in 2025
Real dollar figures, scary debt, waiting it out in the Hunger Games, and grad school level research to prove... it's not just me?
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I was a Bench customer. I'm not surprised they shut down abruptly.
The difference between regular businesses and the startups trying to sell us all software.
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Please stop celebrating Small Business Saturday
It's just an ad campaign for American Express.
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"Well someone must be making money doing this."
The false assumption that because a small business is still there, it must be economically viable
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Main Street America doesn't quite get us
They want to help, but they're not sure how. Will they listen?
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Storefront Revolt
Storefront Revolt
Thoughts on the near impossibility of running an independent retail business during late stage enshittification of everything. Part personal narrative, part research project, part how-I-did-it, written for both business owners and the curious.
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