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YEAR IN REVIEW

Making the Most of Every Minute in 2018   12 months. 52 weeks. 365 days. NAWBO National and our members have certainly made the most of every minute we’ve had in 2018. Here’s a look back at some of our organization’s most exciting milestones: H.R. 5050 Celebrates...

Lisa Coppola Is the Complete Package as Presidents Assembly Chair

  After years of experience as a lawyer and business owner, Lisa Coppola may know better than anyone about the obstacles business owners face. As founder of The Coppola Firm, one of Lisa and her team’s focuses is helping clients start a business, negotiate contracts,...

“Stevie” Says It All

  It’s one thing to be proud of your organization and its work or share with the world all the positive contributions it makes. It’s quite another, though, to have a outside organization recognize it for its excellence—which is what happened when NAWBO National’s CEO...

Boost Your Business and Manage Your Risk: Supplier Risk in Today’s Supply Chains

  While today’s businesses have never been more connected, the changing supply chain and B2B landscape means that there are growing security risks and concerns for organizations all over the world. Buyers are starting to mitigate third-party supplier risk by vetting...

Two Retiring UPS Managers Are Shining Examples of Just How Much Relationships Matter

Plus, NAWBO’s New Face of UPS Brings Her Own Passion and Personality   UPS—with its brown trucks that are familiar sights at homes and businesses in cities across the world—is best known for its capabilities and innovation, but for NAWBO, it’s just as much about the...

A Change in Tax Guidelines on Meals and Entertainment Is Proof Positive of Strength in Numbers

  When the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law late last year to help simplify the tax code and relieve the burden for many Americans, small business owners across America who took time to understand what the changes meant weren’t celebrating. After all, for...

Three Reasons Why Selling Your Business to Your Employees or Children Won’t Work—and How to Prepare So It Will

  By Valerie L. Vaughn, MBA, PhD, Certified Business Intermediary and Mergers and Acquisitions Professional, Apex Business Advisors Many business owners believe that when it comes time to retire, they’ll sell their business to a key employee or younger family member....

Once You Go, You Know

Journalist and Talk Show Host Lisa Ling Will Serve as WBC2019 Keynote   If you attended the fall’s 2018 National Women’s Business Conference hosted by NAWBO, you understand why so many repeat attendees say, “Once you go, you know.” You really have to be there to...