this day falls the day after black friday and before cyber monday every year. however, i think that every day should be small business saturday (sunday, monday, tuesday, etc). i say this not because i am a small biz owner myself, but because i know many brilliant, talented and unique people who own a small business. some do it for a little extra spending cash, many do it out of necessity to support their families, but all of them do it for the passion they have deep within. owning a small business is a lot of work...i know...i have had the 9-5 job, i have worked night shift in an inner city emergency room, i have worked countless weekends and holidays over the years and all of that was easy in comparison to owning a small biz. 'treps, as we are often called, have a different level of passion for their vocation. without this passion, it would be impossible to put in the hours of planning, marketing, bookkeeping, building, maintaining that is required to run a successful small business, and this is the stuff that needs to be accomplished outside of the hours of business. for all the hard work, i salute the millions of small business owners out there and encourage everyone to skip the big box store at least once this holiday shopping season and go local and grow small...
