Dec 20, 2023 | Women In Business
By Theresa Gonzalez Women are taking charge of their own fate by turning their passions and bright ideas into profit. Since the early 2000s, the number of women-owned companies has increased 114 percent, with much of that growth happening within the last five years....
Dec 13, 2023 | Customer Experience
How can advertising and marketing teams create realistic promotional ad campaigns or product or service information that gives a proper voice and shares the accurate story of the BIPOC communities their company serves? Updating the company’s digital presence, brand...
Nov 8, 2023 | Growing A Business
By Jimmy Magahern Ashley La Russa cringes a little every time she hears the term “minority-owned business.” “When I saw your email about doing a story on minority-owned businesses, I was just like, ‘Ugh, we gotta phase that term out!’” she said, with a laugh. “We see...
Oct 11, 2023 | Leadership
By Kelli Washington The current realities of the world are emotionally taxing for everyone—pandemic disparities, racial injustices, political division, bodily autonomy—the list goes on. Unfortunately, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) are even more...
Sep 20, 2023 | Starting A Business
By Linda Zhang When Alex Zhou arrived in Manhattan, Kansas for college in 2007, he was in for a surprise. Zhou discovered that the “Little Apple” bared little resemblance to its larger New York sibling. Far from his hometown of Dalian, China, Zhou found it...