If you own a small business, you can share this with your local community. At TwoBrain, we’re here to serve YOU, because we believe in your mission to serve THEM. Thank you. Copy and paste the below text into your blog. Feel free to use our picture, or your own. Want more help? Click here to book a free call with a TwoBrain mentor. The industrial economy is over. For many reasons, that’s a good thing. Heavy industry is a big polluter. Heavy industry relies on humans behaving like cogs in a wheel. Heavy industry suppresses the earning potential of the workforce. But heavy industry also provided good jobs, with health benefits and a way to stop working at age 65. As industrial jobs disappear, so do the securities they carried. The only ones who can fill that vacuum–creating jobs, filling vacant buildings and pushing the economy forward–is entrepreneurs. Today, “Small-business Saturday”, is their day. Here’s why you should care. 64% of new jobs come from small business in the US. In Canada, 87.7% of new jobs come from small businesses. These trends are rising. Your kid will probably work for a local entrepreneur, or become an entrepreneur themselves. Local entrepreneurs give more to local charities. Local entrepreneurs support other local entrepreneurs, creating a cascading effect. Small businesses pay more in local taxes than you do. Small business owners pay their staff far more than they pay themselves. Small business pulls money INTO your city. Big business pulls it OUT. Small business creates sixteen TIMES more patents than large business does. That means more innovation, more future security, and more jobs. But the real reason: the local business owner has probably been up since 5am, getting ready to serve you. They’ll probably still be going after you’ve had your dinner. They probably make less than you–for now–and they’re probably wondering if they’ll still be open ...
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