On today's Business Beat, Jeff discusses how the wedding industry is set to thrive again as the pandemic is beginning to slow down. In fact, the Wall Street Journal reports that wedding caterers and venues are fully booked for 2021 and wedding registry signups are skyrocketing. 

Tune in to the Business Beat to learn more about the booming wedding industry.

On today's Business Beat, Jeff talks about how Michigan leads the nation in the biggest increase in venture capital investing and how venture capital is furthering innovation in our state.

Tune in to the Business Beat to learn more about the importance of venture capital.

On today's Business Beat, Jeff discusses a poll from Wolff Olins and Hall and Partners that found the top companies the public finds to be the most conscious brands.

Tune in to the Business Beat to learn which companies are named as the most conscious brands.

On today's Business Beat, Jeff discusses the uptick in workers' desires of working from home permanently after the COVID-19 pandemic moved the world to remote work.

According to an in-depth look at remote work after the COVID-19 pandemic from the University of Chicago's Becker Friedman Institute for Economics, around 21% of total work hours post-pandemic will be working from home, nearly four times as high as the level of those working from home pre-pandemic.

Tune in to the Business Beat to learn more about this desire to continue working from home.

On today's Business Beat, Jeff discusses a hopeful look for the future of small businesses, as a recent survey from Sage reveals that small business optimism is growing, which could potentially create millions of new jobs.

Tune in to the Business Beat to learn more about this rising small business optimism.

On today's Business Beat, Jeff talks about an incredibly important issue: the digital divide, resulting in 82 million Americans who lack broadband internet access at home, according to Pew Research.

Tune in to the Business Beat to learn more about addressing America's digital divide.

On this morning's Business Beat, Jeff shares an ongoing trend in consumer behavior: those who are searching for something online but going to a store locally to actually make the purchase. Visits to local stores and restaurants are top of mind, according to a recent report by Google.

Tune in to the Business Beat to learn more about this great news for local merchants and local restaurants.

On this morning's WJR Business Beat, Jeff discusses an excellent resource for entrepreneurs who need free, high-quality coaching and mentoring: SCORE, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and a resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Tune in to the Business Beat to learn more about the mentoring services offered by SCORE.

On this morning's WJR Business Beat, Jeff shares a recent Axois survey indicating that young engineers and recent college graduates are looking to Miami, Houston and Philadelphia as hot spots to start a career, rather than San Fransisco, New York or Seattle. This news comes on the heels of last week's Business Beat features with Ryan Landau of Purpose Jobs discussing tech workers migrating to the Midwest.

Tune in to the Business Beat to learn more about the new regions that are becoming tech hubs for creative workers.

On this morning's WJR Business Beat, Jeff shares exciting news from the National Retail Federation (NRF): retail sales are beginning to rebound, and the NRF predicts a strong acceleration of the U.S. economy in 2021.

Tune in to the Business Beat to learn more about the National Retail Federation's predictions.