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Small Biz Primer

How to start & run a business, minus the jargon.

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Section N°03

News & Explainers

What a term actually means, why it is suddenly everywhere, and whether it changes anything for a business your size.

0 of 15 explainers live · more published each week

Small business owners get hit with a lot of vocabulary they did not ask for. A supplier mentions ERP. A customer asks whether you are a B Corp. Someone on a podcast says ghost commerce like everyone already knows. Most of it is either genuinely useful or completely irrelevant to a ten-person company, and the difference is rarely obvious from the way it gets discussed.

This section explains the term, says where it came from, and then answers the question that actually matters: does this change anything for you? Often the honest answer is no, not yet, and we would rather say that than pad out an article.

These are explainers rather than breaking news. We are not going to be first to a story, and we are not trying to be. We would rather be the page you read three weeks later when you need to understand the thing properly.

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Straight answer

This section is empty on purpose. We launched with fifteen guides in the other two sections and we are not going to pad this one out to look busier than we are. The first explainers go up [PUBLISH DATE - fill in].

In the meantime, the Business Core and How-To sections have fifteen guides that are finished and live.

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What lands here first

15 planned in total

These are titles from our editorial calendar, not live pages. Nothing here is linked until it is actually published.

N°01
AI in Business: How Companies Are Actually Using It in 2026
Trends
N°02
What Is Shopify and Why Everyone's Talking About It
Platforms
N°03
ERP Systems Explained: Do Small Businesses Need One?
Software
N°04
What Is a Franchise? How Franchising Works
Models
N°05
Certified B Corporation: What the Label Really Means
Standards
N°06
What Is Shop Pay and How Does It Change Checkout?
Payments
N°07
Greenwashing: What It Is and How to Avoid It
Standards
N°08
What Is the Better Business Bureau and Does It Still Matter?
Reputation