Tag: Alexandria small business development center
The Business Plan with Bill Reagan: Timely connections make a difference
By Bill Reagan
Who you know is often more important than what you know.
Making good connections is crucial through all stages of business, but it’s...
The Business Plan with Bill Reagan: Look before you lease
By Bill Reagan
Some of the chief disrupters to businesses’ momentum involve real estate.
First, there’s the challenge of finding the ideal location – appealing and...
The Business Plan with Bill Reagan: Experiential retail
Seventy of Alexandria’s savviest independent retailers collaborated last week on approaches to improve the visitor experience in the city. The Experiential Retail Summit was...
The Business Plan with Bill Reagan: Creating a vibrant small business...
Entrepreneurship doesn’t flourish by happenstance. Centers of innovation – like Silicon Valley in California; Austin, Texas and Seattle, Washington – seem to have found...
Letter to the Editor: City hall decisions harm small business
To the editor:
Alexandria’s small business community is struggling. Increasingly, one sees on residential doorsteps, items purchased online and delivered by parcel service trucks. Retail...
