<aside> ☝🏽 This cover image is a doodle depicting a web-based business. | The image was made by made by John Guerra using The Doodle Library — **Simple, reusable drawings.**

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Small businesses from IRL to web-based startups are tough. The web gives us an edge, but small business needs advocates. We would like to be one.

<aside> 👷🏽‍♂️ Heads-up: This incomplete draft of article is what we call a published/live draft.

Why? Because we think, research, draft, and edit in public. This is how we work. Plus it feels good and often necessary.

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That’s it.

Thanks for reading.

<aside> 🗣️ message from the editor, John Guerra

Be easy on yourself. This web-shit is hard.

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