True, but be careful, many of those you list appear to be small business because the big corporate owners have decided to have different name out front which makes it look like small business but they are not. You can tell because they are trying to sell you "services" that you don't need.
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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Lots of professional services are run out of small businesses - doctor’s offices, law firms, plumbers, electricians, auto mechanics, etc.
bluGill@fedia.io 1 week ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I mean, “small business” can still get pretty big. You can bring in $40M with 1500 employees and still be clarified as “small”.
You can tell because they are trying to sell you “services” that you don’t need.
Show me a business that doesn’t. 😛
There’s plenty of gray area - franchises can be privately owned despite hosting a big brand logo, retailers can have boutique letterheads despite all being part of some corporate megalith (Laundry’s loves doing this shit), an office can be part of a group, a consultant can only have one or two clients and effectively operate as an off-book extension of the parent company, yadda yadda yadda.
But for the most part, the guy running the auto shop on the run down lot at the corner is independent. And you’ll know it when they go bankrupt in the next downturn.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Some of these are under threat too. There are online lawyer and doctor offerings now. Maybe not numbers, but there are certainly tech companies trying to own the plumbing referral business (like Thumbtack) and they suck a great deal of the profit margin out of it. Nothing is safe.
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 1 week ago
Fab shops & low volume manufacturing, tool & die, construction, cosmetology, IT services, consulting, accounting firms, non-profits…