Tag: small business

LocaLl Bred Curated by Trellus

LocaLI Bred is a curated gift box brand founded to shine light on Long Island’s best local artisans and makers. In 2024, the brand was acquired by Trellus Same-Day Local Delivery & Marketplace, a Long Island-based company with a mission to help small businesses compete against e-commerce giants and reach more local customers.
Each LocaLI Bred box serves a dual role, as a memorable gift and a stamp of Long Island pride. Whether to welcome a newcomer to the Island or to delight a native with some fresh local flavors, LocaLI Bred boxes ensure that the gift recipient truly makes a positive connection with the Island.
LocaLI Bred curated by Trellus supports multiple local businesses across Long Island, from artists to jam makers, spice blenders to candle makers, and everything in between. Gift boxes are updated seasonally to feature the newest and best artisans here on Long Island. Corporate gifting options are also available.


For more information, visit www.localibred.com

Is Your Business Prepared if UPS Goes on Strike?

The LI Food Council has a new member ready to help with last-mile delivery in case of a UPS strike. Trellus is a Same-Day, on-demand Local Delivery Service and Marketplace that helps small businesses compete against Amazon and big-box e-commerce retail stores. They’re also a regional UPS alternative for deliveries across Long Island and Westchester and by scheduled request into New York City, Southern Connecticut, New Jersey, and beyond.

Trellus was just profiled by News 12 Long Island. They’re now educating other small businesses about the looming UPS strike and what’s at stake. In their blog article, Trellus details why diversifying your logistics is critical at this time.

Don’t be stranded by major carriers in the event of a UPS strike! Visit www.bytrellus.com to learn more, or give them a call at 1.833.562.2554.

Free Business Advice from 15 top Universities’ MBA Students

MBAs from Respond to Ongoing Need, to Support Small Business with the 2nd Small Business School Challenge

For Immediate Release– The Small Business School, in partnership with MBA students from NYU – Stern School of Business and 14 other top universities nationwide, are responding to meet the needs of small businesses devastated by the current crisis by hosting the second Small Business School Challenge, a 48-hour virtual design thinking workshop to help strategize and guide small businesses during this pandemic.

“A future without small local business, where only the large chains survive this crisis, is a very bleak future indeed”.

What started as a grassroots effort to help connect small business owners reeling to adapt and make changes to their business to stay afloat has turned into a nationally coordinated campaign and nonprofit-in-formation bringing together hundreds of MBA students and business leaders to team up with small business owners and put their collective business acumen to work on their behalf.

Commitments of support have already come in from more than a dozen institutions such as Dartmouth, Georgetown, and Yale SOM. The MBA students are being challenged to focus on preparing these businesses to thrive through the coming downturn, not just survive. The students are in competition to create the most viable and innovative strategies for their business owner clients, but it’s the business owners who truly benefit from awarded prize money, resources from corporate sponsors, and personalized support over the 2-day event.

“A future without small local business, where only the large chains survive this crisis, is a very bleak future indeed. As an MBA grad and co-founder of LifeWork, my team and I felt ideally placed to put together an event to bring the strategy and support of MBA students and business leaders from across the country to the small businesses who need it right now,” shares SBSC CoFounder David Corfield”.

The first SBSC event in May hosted 150 small business owners who were supported by 450 MBA students and 100 business leaders and mentors, including a keynote from Seth Godin. The individual case studies and strategies that resulted from the first event are available publicly on the SBSC website at https://thesbschallenge.com/case-studies/.

Elisa Spurlin, owner of Peabody Fine Art and Framing, who participated in the May event had this to say about the support she received from her MBA team- “The suggestions they made will not only help my full client base during the COVID19 impacts, but they are a sound model that will be useful permanently to grow my business in a sector that I have not been very successful in engaging and converting to clients. I’m very happy with my team and their solutions.”

The SBSC-II is scheduled for October 15th-17th and plans to host 200 new small business owners from across the country. Applications are open through September 25th. Learn more and apply at https://thesbschallenge.com/get-involved/, or nominate a small business in your hometown that you want to see receive free support to succeed.

For more details about the challenge or to explore participating as an MBA student competitor or small business client, visit the SBSChallenge website at thesbschallenge.com, the SBSChallenge page on Facebook  or follow @TheSBSChallenge Instagram and Twitter.

About The Small Business School Challenge

The SBSC was conceived to support SMBs in crisis due to COVID-19 and the associated economic fallout. The SBSC team and events are designed to connect SMBs, MBAs, mentors, and sponsors in a 100% virtual environment to maximize opportunities for impact.

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Rooted Events – Vegan Market

Dear friend!

Green Street Food Truck, in association with fellow vegan entrepreneurs, has set up an exciting opportunity for vegan business growth on Long Island. ‘Rooted Events‘ will be putting on vegan farmers’ markets over the next few months. They will take place (potentially, if proven successful) twice monthly, rotating between Nassau and Suffolk.

These events are aimed at highlighting the vegan business network here on the island and hopes to promote a sense of community, awareness, and revenue for the vegan movement.

Rooted Events would like to invite you to be a part of our kick-off event, on Thursday, August 6th, from 4 pm-9 pm, at 3434 Hempstead Turnpike, Levittown.

We are asking a minimal fee of $50, to cover the costs for the event. All the permits required, as well as regulations for COVID19 safety, are outlined in the events contract, please feel free to reach out with any questions regarding the event.

We look forward to working together and building this community across Long Island with you.

Please email the completed application and insurance to caroline@rootedevents.net

Click the button below to download the Event Concession Vendor Contract and Application.

Summer Celebration

Due to the current situation regarding COVID-19 restrictions – Summer Celebration 2020 will be canceled.  This rooftop celebration is the Long Island Food Council’s biggest and most successful event and as disappointed as we all are, we look forward to bringing this event back in 2021. Take a look at some of the great moments from last year’s Summer Celebration – 2019.

Michael Tucker with LI busiess owners on the rooftop summer celebration
networking event
outdoor networking event

Nourish New York

“Nourish New York” is making sure food doesn’t go to waste and instead goes to people who are in need. The new initiative helps to address two problems at once: excess agricultural products at New York farms and food insecurity. To date, food and products have been purchased from more than 2,100 Upstate farms and nearly 50 food banks, soup kitchens and food pantries have been supported. We are asking philanthropies that want to help in this effort to please email COVID19Philanthropies@exec.ny.gov.

CLICK HERE to visit the website.

Take the Survey-Long Island Business Economic Impact of Covid-19

Hofstra University is gathering critical data to assist Nassau and Suffolk County businesses to address and mitigate the impact of Covid-19.
The online survey attached will provide government officials with new information to assess the economic effect and advocate for additional relief.

Click here to take the survey.

FUZEHUB Webinar

Calculating Your Cost of Goods Sold and Estimating Future Production Cost

Upcoming Webinar – February 13,2020 – 11:00am EST

Many start-up companies make the mistake of designing overly complex products that are expensive to manufacture and assemble at scale. This can make your price point too high, costing you sales, or erode your profit margins. This webinar will show you how to accurately calculate your total product cost and develop an intelligent pro-forma cost as you look to scale-up production.

What You Will Learn:

  • The difference between fixed costs, variable costs, direct costs, indirect costs, and overhead.
  • Gain an understanding of Break-Even Point and Economies of Scale, and how they can impact pricing and profit margin.
  • The importance of knowing your product cost before investing in manufacturing or launching at the wrong price point.