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How to Open a Salon

Are you an aspiring aspiring salon owner? This guide walks you through everything you need to know when starting a beauty salon.

How to Build a Personal Trainer Website

Here are seven steps that can help you build out your personal training website.

How to Write a Killer Bar Business Plan

When you open a bar, it’s crucial to set objectives and strategies to achieve them. Here’s how to write a bar business plan that will roadmap your success.

Introducing Square Marketing

With Square’s powerful marketing platform, you can design custom campaigns with ease, automate your campaigns and even see how your efforts affect your overall profitability – all from right within your Square Dashboard.

What Is Cost of Goods Sold and How Do You Calculate It?

When you run a business, cost of goods sold (COGS) is an essential metric. Learn all about COGS, how it works and how to calculate it with our handy guide.

What Is Refinancing, and How Does it Work?

Ideally, refinancing an existing loan should create a better financial circumstance for you and your business. If you have a debt you’re thinking of refinancing, it’s important to first understand how the process works.

What Is Working Capital and How Do You Calculate It?

You’ve probably heard the saying, “It takes money to make money.” That money is working capital, which is a measure of your business’s financial health.

A Comprehensive Guide to Business Loans

For many small business owners, cash flow management problems are a commonly cited source of stress. Loans are one way you can invest in opportunities like expansion or covering your current expenses.

What is HST and Who Has to Charge It?

Learn more about harmonized sales tax and how it may apply to your business.

How to Get Paid with Square Online Checkout

Learn how to sell and accept payments online without a website.

How to Take and Source Photos for Your Website and Social Media

Refreshing your website and social media images is essential for your business. Here are tips on taking and sourcing good pictures for your website or social media.

How to Choose the Best Business Analytics Tools

As a business owner, you have to make critical decisions every day. It’s easier to make the right choice when you have the best information, right at your fingertips.

How to Pick the Right Name for Your Business

Naming your business requires inspiration and a lot of research. Here are the steps to take and actionable tips when choosing a business name.

How to Stage a Restaurant Soft Opening

Thinking about a test-run before the grand opening of your new restaurant? Here are a few things you should know.

How to Get Started with Invoicing for Your Photography Business

What you need to know when getting started with invoicing for your photography business.

How to Run Your Business in 2021: A Guide to Strategic, Effective Management

You’ve established your business, so what’s next?

Superhero Maker Marylène Dumollard Shows What it Takes to Be Brave in Businesses

Meet our recent #SquareStory contest winner, who turned her passion for fashion into whimsical children’s toys.

Taking on a New Challenge: How the Kardas Brothers Conquered Mount Baldy

For Jason Kardas and his brothers, taking over an existing business was easier than it might have been, thanks to Square.

Tips for Growing Your Business in 2017 from Seller Michael Willems

Now is a great time to set your goals for the year ahead, especially if you’re planning to branch out and expand your business.

Talking About The Birds & The Beets: An Alternative Cafe Concept

Every time I refresh the Square app, I’m refreshing my understanding of my business — being able to see live trends and seasonal changes is a truly invaluable tool for a small business.

Strength in Numbers: CrossFit Leviathan Gets Fit with Card on File

CrossFit has some of the most loyal fans in the fitness world, but creating a community of people who love high-intensity exercise involves more than just putting people and equipment in the same room.

The Makehouse Takes a Creative Approach to Business

Surviving Your First Artisan’s Market: 4 Tips from Gypsy Botanicals

Seller Spotlight: Dr. Kimberley Wands Shares 4 Expert Ways to Beat the Winter Blues

Growing Together: Square Partners with the Movember Foundation

Where Are They Now? Square Canada Celebrates Four Years with Our First Photographers

Discovering the Remote Northwest Territories with Captain’s Cabins and Bridge-Less Lodging

Seven Ways Second Nature Boutique Says Thank You to East Vancouver

Alberta Branded: Putting Calgary Fashion on the Map

Canuck Place Provides Much-Needed Services for Families on a Difficult Journey

Celebrate National Coffee Day with Caffeina Espresso Bar

Fall Fun with Square: Nerd Out, and Grab a Stein

Ingredients for Success: Shut UR Pie Hole

Apple Tree Market: From Growing Food to Growing a Business

Bridging the Digital Divide with Free Geek Toronto

Montreal’s Maison Privée Barbershops Are a Cut Above the Rest