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As a military spouse entrepreneur, a Permanent Change of Station (PCS) move becomes extra complicated as you re faced with not just relocating your home and family, but also your business. Even if your business is digital only, you still must tackle the logistics of moving your bookkeeping and possibly even your licenses and registration to a new place.
Things can get even more complicated if you re relocating overseas. In addition to the other considerations faced by every other military spouse business owner, you also must sort through rules around living and working in a foreign country.
Marine Corps spouse and business owner Lakesha Cole knows how to navigate those issues because she s personally done it. In an episode of the PCS with Military.com podcast, she shared some of her best advice for relocating your business. Here s some of what she said.
As the U.S. economy undergoes an uneven recovery from the virus pandemic, many small business owners face a tough decision on whether and when to take on employees.
The pandemic forced Meghan Gardner to let go of 16 staffers at Guardian Adventures, which ran educational summer camps, part of an industry decimated by the virus outbreak. While Gardner got a Paycheck Protection Program loan and ran online camps during the summer, by October she couldn t afford to pay her employees.
Gardner would like to build her company back up, but the virus is still raging and the future for children s group activities is still uncertain. She s worried about the summer of 2021 being a repeat of 2020.
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In 2018, Israel Moreira was just the cute guy who sat near the printer in the San Francisco co-working space where Kelsey Witherow had been running her company, Doughp, for about a year.
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NEW YORK (AP) As the U.S. economy undergoes an uneven recovery from the virus pandemic, many small business owners face a tough decision on whether and when