My name is mike, im in Product Development at comcast. Were working to make things simple, easy and awesome. Good morning from bell light, wisconsin. Coming up on a special Small Business saturday edition of Your Business this restaurant Grocery Store wants to become the Tourist Destination for beloits main street. They need help. Well bring in our Your Business makeover team. Plus, i sit down with linda mcman to talk about how important it is to support your local businesses. And well show you exactly how the money you spend on your local businesses helps the entire community. When it comes to making this Small Business saturday the most profitable ever, we have your
backs. Thats all coming up next on Your Business. Your business is sponsored by American Express. Dont do business without it. Hi there, everyone. Welcome to a very special edition of Your Business. We are here in beloit, wisconsin, as Small Businesses are getting ready for Small Business saturday. Thats the day that come
our small business saturday from beloit, wisconsin, continues. we take a stroll with the city manager who tells us what the town is doing to get people to shop local. and a look back over the years to see what businesses around the country have done to attract customers on small business saturday. the community doesn t just have small businesses, it is small businesses. and that s why american express founded small business saturday. so, today, small business saturday, let s all get up, get out and shop small. i got croissant. shopping small, a small way to make a big difference.
of all of the resources, the mentoring, the networking aspects. i am the chief advocate for 30 million small businesses around the country so i want to make sure they know about the resources that are available to them, not only access to capital but also the mentoring aspect, the actual connecting with businesses that might be beneficial to them, helping them export because we have an international trade department at sba helping them look at those markets outside the united states. so it s very robust and i m very proud of what we re doing. let s end with one last thing. shop small. i found something really amazing in beloit, wisconsin. great beat ketchup which was so tasty from bushel and peck s in wyoming bushel and peck s ketchup from bushel and peck s in beloit, wisconsin. then also this amazing popcorn
backs. that s all coming up next on your business. your business is sponsored by american express. don t do business without it. hi there, everyone. welcome to a very special edition of your business. we are here in beloit, wisconsin, as small businesses are getting ready for small business saturday. that s the day that comes between black friday and cyber monday when we are all encouraged to shop local. beloit has a lot to offer. it s a college town. big companies like pratt industries and frito lay have
industries here. it s attracted a lot of fast growing tech companies. as the city has changed, so have the small businesses. we recently got a letter from the founder of this company here, bushel and pecks, a beloved beloit institution. the owner told us that she grew this company from a small farm stand into what it is today but she still has big dreams and she needs help. she is overwhelmed so we ve assembled a great team together and we re going to go give this business a makeover. come on. jackie, i m j.j. hi there. hi. this place is fantastic! thanks. i love this. jackie jeanette is the owner of bushel and peck s, a grocery store, restaurant and commercial kitchen. she started out 16 years ago when she left her corporate job in chicago to buy a farm outside the city of beloit, wisconsin. at first she sold produce at the local farmer s market, then in