Full schedule, but structural financial pressure. Your schedule is full. Treatments are continuing. Clients keep coming back. And yet, you feel constant financial pressure. For many entrepreneurs in the beauty and wellness industry, this is a familiar reality. From beauty salons to nail studios, from skin therapy to massage salons and wellness practices: on the outside, it often seems as if everything…
High costs, a lot of responsibility, and little financial breathing room. You start early. Your days are tightly scheduled. Loading the van, driving routes, time pressure, traffic, delivery times. And meanwhile, everything keeps running: fuel costs, maintenance, insurance, leasing, taxes. For many parcel deliverers and self-employed professionals in logistics, entrepreneurship feels like constantly moving just to stay afloat. From the outside, it seems…
In recent years, many self-employed healthcare professionals have consciously chosen freedom, flexibility, and independent entrepreneurship. Deciding for yourself when to work, who to work for, and how to practice your profession. However, stricter checks on bogus self-employment and changing regulations have created a great deal of uncertainty within the healthcare sector. Many self-employed professionals are currently asking themselves: will I soon be able to…
When COVID support arrived, many entrepreneurs felt it was a temporary solution for a temporary crisis. Taxes could be paid later. There was breathing room. Time to recover. And that recovery would follow naturally—that was the idea. But years have passed since then. And for many entrepreneurs, that COVID debt still feels…
Stop or continue? During the KVK Live Advice Days (November 2021), the Chamber of Commerce, together with a number of organizations and entrepreneurs, offered online advice, information and inspiration for four days. Each day a different theme was central and the focus was on what is happening now, is possible and allowed. Jacqueline Zuidweg was one of the advisory…
Money Wise online platform meeting #Financially Vulnerable On 26 May, the theme #Financially Vulnerable in a new (economic) reality was central during the Money Wise Online platform meeting. Which groups were already financially vulnerable to the corona crisis and who have joined it? What needs to be done to increase the financial resilience of these groups? And…
Webinar: Looking back at business in times of crisis On 14 April 2020, Centraal Beheer organized a webinar about entrepreneurship in times of crisis. Ralph van Dam (Centraal Beheer), Jacqueline Zuidweg (MKBDoorgang.nl), Jeroen Koster (MKBDoorgang.nl) and Kees de Jong (nlgroeit) discussed this and gave practical information and tips. Watch the webinar.
Self-employed desk is catching up with support applications for entrepreneurs The Self-Employed Desk in Flevoland has taken measures to process applications for financial support from entrepreneurs more quickly. read more
Appeal to freelancers: do not all request emergency help at the same time. For freelancers who are in acute financial need, these are confusing times. While the emergency counter for income support in one municipality was already open last week, freelancers in other municipalities are sent home empty-handed. Read more.
Corona stress companies: 'Marriages will die' Entrepreneurs have their hands in their hair now that they have had to close the doors of their company in one go. From the café owner on the corner to the self-employed person who gives tennis lessons. How will my company continue, can I pay back that loan and what if ...
