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Back in 2023, on Episode 39: Understanding Premiumization, we talked about how sometimes doing more for your brand can help it stand out. The caveat to doing more for your business is that you may have to spend more on your business, and that can be a problem.

Premiumization did not uniformly decline as inflation rose; rather, it shifted from a broad-based trend to a more selective one, with consumers becoming more discerning about which products they deem worthy of a higher price tag. While some categories saw a pullback, many premium products remained resilient as customers opted for "affordable luxuries" or traded down in other areas to justify spending on higher-quality items.

Tune in to see you dial it back, stay the same, or went bigger during these harder economic times.

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Small business owners can expect enhanced digital tools, improved service, and continued tax relief from the IRS this Season. We would love to know who is there to help small businesses in the IRS with how they have gutted the Federal job sector since the beginning of 2025.

Every year, business tax filing criteria keep changing, and the tax deductions for small businesses get smaller and smaller year after year. They will say the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) helps small businesses, but in actuality, it helps the Big/Large Business owners more than anything. Tune into this episode and see if you and your businesses are being helped or hindered this year.

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The economic impacts of WAR are overwhelmingly negative, characterized by significant long-term Gross Domestic Product (GDP) losses, massive destruction of capital, increased public debt, and persistently high inflation!!!

While short-term gains can occur in specific sectors (like Defense) due to increased government spending- sometimes termed "military Keynesianism"- these gains are temporary, localized, and are usually outweighed by the disruption of civil production and the destruction of infrastructure. Tune in to this episode to hear how bad WAR is for Small Business Owners!!!