1st Step Accounting is a virtual accounting and tax preparation firm. We partner with small business owners to fill their bookkeeping, payroll, and tax preparation needs.
 

B. Foxy is a celebration of fearlessness, confidence, and self expression. We like to flaunt it all through fashion details. We believe it's the intricate details of a woman's style that really makes her stand out in a crowd. We curate unique and distinctive styles of Fashion Accessories to help bring out her badassery.
 

Groundswell Greetings sells artful, playful, and culturally relevant cards.

Elements + Alchemy is a unique and inspired bodywork practice, line of herbal teas, organic skin care, flower + gemstone essences, incense, jewelry and leather goods all rooted in my nearly lifelong practice of herbal healing, yoga, astrology, aromatherapy and crystal healing and mixed with modern day urban sensibilities.

I'm super proud that in less than one year of starting Mikey's Miracle Foundation, Inc. we were able to secure our 501(c)(3) status in less than three weeks. There are many established non-profits who not achieved this status so it is quite the honor to be a start-up organization making tremendous strides.

Ask for referrals! Some clients just don't know they are supposed to tell their friends and family about how much you have helped them. Also, ask them to write reviews on yelp, google etc. Personalized reviews, like on yelp or google, can be really helpful when you are first starting out.

You need to have passion. If you do not deeply love what you are doing, and have passion for it get out. Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart so you need to have that love and drive to sustain you when there is a bump in the road. 

We have a boutique cut flower farm in Southern Chester County called The Farm at Oxford. Growing unique and unusual flora and fauna, we love to sell to our local designers for their weddings and events. We also offer a bouquet share CSA to locals who want fresh flowers on the regular in their homes.

We design stunning spaces — whether on the digital and social media landscape or physical atmosphere with the number one mission to help you tell the story of your brand and connect with your target customer.
 

With my editorial work, I help small businesses show the human element behind the product or service they provide. So much hard work and dedication goes on unnoticed behind the scenes, but those stories are so compelling and they really do deserve to be told.

As a lady boss who works mostly alone, it was really inspiring for me to sit in a room of women who have both very similar experiences and very different ones all at the same time. We shared some fun stuff and some nitty gritty and thinking back, it continually motivates me.

The Bmore Creatives is dedicated to promoting and connecting the creative community throughout the city, both on social media and beyond. Online, we exist mainly on Instagram, where we feature different artists, makers, small business owners, avid-IGers — anyone doing cool/creative stuff in Baltimore.

Don't take every single bit of advice your given. Everyone has something to say about what you do or don't do. Sometimes you just have to go with your gut and believe in your own ideas. Innovation looks and feels different.

One of my favorite parts of being an artist and small business is the community that I belong to! I'm part of the Charm City Craft Mafia, a small craft collective, that organizes and produces several amazing events each year for local and regional artists to sell and promote their work.

I love how shop owning requires so many different problem solving abilities. A huge part of it is the numbers and logistics — the buying budget, figuring out costs, making sure we're ordering the right numbers on inventory, scheduling staff, ordering a good range of price points. But then I also love the creative part of it.