One can look to various bellwethers and benchmarks to try to glean just where we're headed with the economy and in business. One of the best is to look at the ad market. This is because businesses feel more confident to spend on advertising when the economy is strong and consumer confidence is high.

The most common uses of ChatGPT were for writing code, creating tables, and providing examples. While "make", "create", and "provide" were the most popular ways to start a conversation with ChatGPT.

How much time are we spending executing these side hustles on average? On average, Americans who have a side hustle spend around 13 hours a week, while about 44% are spending fewer than 10 hours a week and still generating a meaningful amount of income for the time invested.

Amazon said shoppers purchased more than 375 million items during this year's prime day. That's up from 300 million last year. Home goods, fashion and beauty were among the top categories.

When you establish thought leadership, you attract people. Many of those people become new buyers, new customers for your business, but you also do a much better job retaining customers that you already have, and those are the most valuable because you engage them. And when you engage your customer base with interesting and relevant information, that leads to sales.

Marketers responsible for creating awareness and leads that a small business needs in order to ultimately enjoy sales are a good barometer of the overall state of small business today because they have direct access to data and metrics that allow them to benchmark and compare expected performance versus actual performance.

Prime Day sales benefit Amazon, but also the small business community of sellers on the Amazon platform.

The company's getting hit hardest by the reduced action in venture capital: It's the earliest of startups floating seed rounds.

Conspiracies and misinformation are thriving on social media as the technologies advance faster than society's understanding of them. It's more important than ever to learn to discern fake information from the truth

The biggest impact on the small businesses that experience a cyber attack was business downtime and loss of customer data.