“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”
─John Wooden, American Basketball Coach
We celebrate Small Business Saturday and America’s entrepreneurial spirit this year on Saturday, November 25. Small Business Saturday: You know, the shopping day that comes along with Thanksgiving leftovers, sandwiched between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Small Business Saturday: The day that helps kick off the holiday shopping blitz, encouraging people to explore the creative originality of local small shops and restaurants.
As an SBA lender you know your borrowers well. You know it’s a challenge to take the leap and start a small business. What’s more, it takes guts and determination. And as we put the corona virus pandemic behind us, SBA reminds us that America’s small businesses continue to navigate, retool, and pivot from its effects.
SBA has co-sponsored this day since 2011 and it’s one of SBA’s Ongoing Initiatives. Yet small businesses need more than one good day a year – or one good Holiday Season – to survive and thrive. Small Business Saturday gives you an opportunity to check in on the local small businesses in your portfolio. Reach out. Drop in. How’s business? Follow up: Communicate with small businesses in your community about SBA loans and the resources available to them.
Importantly, Shopping Small on the Saturday after Thanksgiving has benefitted the economy – with an estimated $17.9 billion spent at nearly 32 million small businesses and restaurants during the 2022 shopping season.1
Let’s give America’s small businesses a leg up. Support the entrepreneurs who took the giant leap to follow their dreams. It’s good business!
Your JRB Team
855.JRB.4.SBA (855.572.4722)
www.jrbrunoassoc.com
1 2022 Small Business Saturday Consumer Insights Survey