What Works | Small Business Podcast With Tara Mcmullin

This January, I’m celebrating 10 years as a small business owner. To say that a lot has changed since I started my very first website while breastfeeding my infant daughter is an extreme understatement. It’s not just the marketing tactics we rely on or the social platforms we frequent that have changed, though. I think it comes right down to the kinds of questions we’re asking and the visions we’re pursuing. Our businesses have matured—and we’re doing our best to keep up. Since my job is to both interview small business owners here on the podcast and observe the comings & goings of hundreds of small business owners in my company’s small business network, I have a pretty great vantage point for seeing how the landscape is changing. I see 5 key trends shaping small business in 2019. Over the next 5 episodes, I’ll be sharing each one with the help of interviews we’ve done over the last 3 years. The reason we can do that is because, well, these new trends are actually nothing new. They’ve been bubbling benea