Whether your small business is a Haitian bakery, a frozen food plant in Hialeah, a marketing firm in Miramar or a shop in South Beach, you're part of a much bigger economic picture. Small business drives the South Florida economy.
Most of these businesses are very small (of the 1.84 million small businesses in Florida, about 75 percent don't have any employees), meaning they're constantly scrambling to do it all.
The Miami Herald would like to be your go-to paper when it comes to small business news.
In recent months, we've increased small business coverage in Business Monday, launched a small business page on MiamiHerald.com, and added a small business marketing column and online Q&A Forum by Jack Hardy.
He'll be joined next month by Rafael Cruz, of Florida Atlantic University's Small Business Development Center, who will start a new column on the ABC's of launching a small business.
Right now we're in the midst of the Business Plan Challenge, a competition for new businesses, and next month we'll be hosting a Small Business Seminar (Stay tuned for details). I hope to see you there.
Mimi Whitefield is the business enterprise editor. She can be reached at mwhitefield@MiamiHerald.com.
