Adam Hansen, Author at Small Business Sense

Adam Hansen

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Adam is a part time journalist, entrepreneur, investor and father.

The 12-Week Uniform Problem Every Youth Sports Club Knows

Most youth programs still collect sizes on paper, chase payments and store boxes of jerseys in a director’s garage. On-demand team stores are cutting that job out of the season.

The 72-Hour Rule That Saves WordPress Owners From Making a Traffic Drop Worse

The longest confirmed Google core update rollout took 45 days to finish, and the average one still runs about two weeks. That single fact reframes almost every panicked decision a small business owner is about to make in the first 72 hours after their traffic falls off a cliff. A WordPress owner watches the analytics […]

How the Ceramic Parts Inside Your Phone, Stove, and Car Get Made

A generation ago, the ceramics that mattered to daily life were the ones you could see: dinner plates, bathroom tile, spark plug insulators. The powders were coarse, the shapes were simple, and a foreman could walk the floor and eyeball a batch. The ceramics running your life today hide inside a phone case or bolt […]

How Serious Physical Harm Disrupts a Small Business and the Legal Rights That Help Owners Recover What They Lost

A small business built around one person operates on a fundamentally different risk profile than a large organization with departments, managers, and redundancy built into its structure. When the owner is the business, or close to it, a ser

The Financial and Legal Reality for Self-Employed People and Small Business Owners After a Serious Injury

Small business owners and self-employed professionals operate without the safety nets that employment provides. There is no paid sick leave, no employer disability coverage, no team that automatically absorbs the workload when the key perso

A Car Accident Can Close a Small Business Faster Than a Bad Quarter When the Legal System Delivers Less Than What Was Lost

Running a small business means the entire operation depends on one person showing up. When a car accident takes that person out of commission, revenue stops immediately and clients do not wait around for an explanation. Unlike a salaried em

7 Signs Your Business Has Outgrown Commission Spreadsheets

When a sales team is small and the commission structure is simple, spreadsheets can be helpful. They’re affordable, well-known, and easy to set up. However, manually handling commissions can be challenging when a business expands. A simple spreadsheet can become a time-consuming source of errors with more salespeople, varying commission rates, fluctuating goals, bonuses, and […]

Making the Right Commercial Roof Investment

Market conditions are always in flux, and this has affected the price of building materials, hiking up overall costs of roof replacements. The United States experienced the largest annual increase in the cost of building material prices bet

When the Business Is Yours but the Marriage Ends: A UK Perspective for Company Owners

Every founder plans for competitors, cash flow problems, and bad hires. Almost none plan for divorce. Yet for business owners in England and Wales, the end of a marriage can reshape a company as dramatically as any market shock — and the rules work differently than many American readers might expect. Under English law there […]

Common Questions About Deducting Donations

What qualifies, what changed for the 2026 tax year, and what records the IRS actually requires.

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