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11 stories tagged “small business” in the Kansas City News archive.
Why Kansas City small businesses keep landing on WordPress
The pitch for a proprietary builder is usually speed. The reason businesses leave one is usually a Tuesday afternoon when nobody could change the hours.
Kansas City metro adds 3,200 jobs in the third quarter
Two sectors added 4,100 jobs. Everything else lost 900. That is the whole story of the quarter.
Twenty-two restaurants opened in the metro this autumn. Nine closed.
Openings are up. Closures are up too. Both numbers are telling the truth.
Kansas City retailers are selling online later than their customers started buying
The sale is happening on a phone. The store was designed on a laptop. That gap is where the money goes.
Plaza retail vacancy falls below 8 percent for the first time since 2019
The recovery is real. It is also mostly service businesses moving into space that used to hold apparel.
Kansas City startups raised $74 million in the third quarter
Three deals account for 81 percent of the quarter. That is not a healthy distribution.
A third of Kansas City customers now start with an AI answer, not a search result
The customer is not scrolling through ten blue links. They are reading one paragraph and deciding.
Olathe issued more small-business permits this year than any year on record
Trades businesses are the fastest-growing category, and most of them do not have a website.
The city market closes its best season on record, with 41 new vendors
Forty-one new vendors, a median customer age eight years younger, and one very long queue for tomatoes.
The Plaza art fair drew a record crowd, and the artists noticed
Attendance records are easy to set. Sales records are the ones artists remember.