2-7-23 – Building Your Personal Brand

Today’s guest is Damon Zick, owner of Life Brand Academy:Damon’s email:  [email protected]’s LinkedIn page:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/damonzick/Life Brand Academy’s YouTube page:  https://www.youtube.com/@lifebrandacademy----------NEWS ROUNDUP1The number of new jobs created soared to 517,000 in January.https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/jobs-report-shows-massive-hiring-in-january-what-the-experts-are-sayingJanuary one-month annualized hourly earnings growth for small business employees fell to 2.88%, the lowest level since 2020, according to Paychex.https://www.paychex.com/employment-watch/#!/news-release/2Xero has found that sales growth for US small businesses continued to slow and recorded its two smallest increases of the past 20 months in July 2022 and September 2022.https://www.xero.com/us/media-releases/xero-small-business-insights-usa-january-2023/According to an estimate by Goldman Sachs, by the end of this year Americans will have spent two-thirds of the extra savings they were able to stash away during Covid.https://www.wsj.com/articles/once-flush-savings-accounts-are-starting-to-run-dry-116756916373Walmart has launched an e-commerce site for small and medium-sized businesses called Walmart Business.https://www.retaildive.com/news/walmart-business-e-commerce-site-small-businesses/640946/----------This podcast is sponsored by SBS Accounting & Advisors.  Use the promo code FLASH and get 20% off your set up fee!  https://sbsaccountants.com/.----------I would love to hear from you!  Please email me at [email protected] me at [email protected] give me feedback on the podcast.Show web site:  www.smallbizflash.com