Dispatches from the front lines of the Small Business Revolution. Stay tuned to our blog to get updates on the Small Business Revolution, advice from other small business owners, special behind-the-scenes content, and more.
Posted on September 10, 2021
Starting a small business is no small feat and is often accomplished through trial and error. We asked each featured business owner from Season 6 for their advice on building and sustaining a successful business.
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Posted on August 20, 2021
Each year of the Small Busines Revolution, co-host Amanda Brinkman has the honor of presenting marketing strategies on behalf of the Deluxe team to the small business owners. We got the chance to sit down with Deluxe marketing experts to learn more about the overall process of working on Season 6 and valuable insights […]
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Posted on July 30, 2021
For Season 6, the Small Business Revolution has returned home to Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota to celebrate and share the stories of Black-owned businesses.
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Posted on July 18, 2021
Each season, we showcase the transformative makeovers of each small business’s brand. But, with so much to capture in each episode of Small Business Revolution, our audience doesn’t see everything that goes into refreshing a brand. That’s why we’ve captured the process below to help highlight why a brand is so important, and just how a brand overhaul works!
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Posted on June 15, 2021
If you’re familiar with the format of each season of Small Business Revolution, we typically do a “back to” episode where we catch up with the business owners from the previous season to see how they’re doing. But, due to limitations from the pandemic, we weren’t able to return to Season 5’s Fredonia, NY to film a “Back to Fredonia” episode.
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Posted on April 6, 2021
Every year, the team from Deluxe and the Small Business Revolution seek out small businesses that are on a great trajectory but need marketing, operational, technical, and sometimes financial guidance to take them to the next level. In Season 6, we’re excited to apply everything we’ve learned over the last five seasons to six distinct […]
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Posted on February 25, 2021
Season 6 of the Small Business Revolution will be a slight twist on seasons past—while we’ll still feature small businesses like we’ve done each season, we’re bringing the show home to Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Posted on December 15, 2020
Since 1969, tutors from Literacy Volunteers of Chautauqua County (LVCC) have provided a wide range of services to area residents including reading, finances, math, English language, technology and high school equivalency. With an estimated 25% of adults considered functionally illiterate in the county, LVCC’s mission is to transform individual lives and communities through the doorway of literacy.
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Posted on December 15, 2020
Chautauqua County has a high rate of immigrant workers, poverty, and illiteracy (an estimated 25%), so there’s a great need for the one-on-one adult tutoring services that Literacy Volunteers of Chautauqua County (LVCC) offers. But, Executive Director Julie LaGrow faces the same challenges many non-profits do, including running on a shoestring budget.
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Posted on December 15, 2020
Because Vineyards Golf Course was formerly split into two separate and somewhat rundown nine-hole courses, owner Debbie Mancuso spent most of her $100,000 personal investment getting the now-18-hole course into playable condition. One of Debbie’s greatest challenges was letting the community know the golf course has new ownership and offers one cohesive experience.
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Posted on December 15, 2020
For nearly 90 years, Fredonia, New York’s only public golf course had weathered recessions, shifts in the sport’s popularity, and a handful of ownership changes – including an unusual circumstance causing the course to split in half and fall into disrepair. But it wasn’t until local golfer Debbie Mancuso purchased Vineyards Golf Course in 2018 that it officially returned as a playable 18-hole course.
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Posted on December 2, 2020
Start-up stories often begin when a solution is needed for a particular challenge. Jess Daly-Griffen knows this better than most. When two of her three children were diagnosed with Celiac disease, Jess swiftly moved into entrepreneur-mode, developing over 150 gluten-free recipes from scratch to ensure her family was staying nourished.
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Since 1915, Deluxe has been a proud champion of small businesses, and we created the Small Business Revolution to celebrate the drive and passion behind small businesses everywhere. Each season of our original series, we capture the inspiring stories of small businesses that make our communities so unique.
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