This small business week belongs to us — the builders, the risk-takers, and the ones who bet on themselves. created with ChatGPT by Fisher Marketing Services National Small Business Week 2026 runs May 3–9, and this year's theme hits close to home: the comeback of Main Street. Not a corporate rebound. Not a Wall Street rally. The return of the small business owner — the person who chose vision over a steady paycheck and built something from scratch. That's me. That's probably

You have been writing SMART goals wrong, and so has almost everyone else. The framework's creator, George T. Doran, said the action plan was the most critical step. Somewhere between 1981 and today, it quietly disappeared. Find out how it happened, who normalized the mistake, and what a real SMART goal looks like.

What are the five non-negotiables that make business development actually work in 2026? This blog breaks down how law firms and SMBs can use relationship nurturing, follow-up, tracking, target network strategy, and territory mapping to turn warm connections into real referrals.

Still treating content as king? Branding is the foundation your content needs to convert leads and most businesses have the order backwards. When branding and content work in alignment, the prospect journey becomes frictionless, leads improve, and your marketing ROI compounds. Learn why branding leads the chess game of marketing and how that relationship changes everything.

Struggling with digital marketing that delivers traffic but not better leads for your law firm? A fractional CMO fixes 7 key gaps—lead quality, website content, strategy, client personas, intake, follow-up—turning low-quality inquiries into high-value clients and revenue, like one firm's doubled clients at 30% profit gain.