{"id":33768,"date":"2025-05-06T14:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T19:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/?p=33768"},"modified":"2025-05-06T14:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T19:02:17","slug":"wbdcs-ceo-erica-kuhlmann-featured-in-crains-chicago-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wbdcs-ceo-erica-kuhlmann-featured-in-crains-chicago-business\/","title":{"rendered":"WBDC&#8217;s CEO Erica Kuhlmann Featured in Crain&#8217;s Chicago Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">In uncertain economic times, what can small business owners actually control? WBDC President and CEO Erica Kuhlmann addresses this critical question in her recent op-ed for Crain&#8217;s Chicago Business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">Drawing from nearly four decades of WBDC&#8217;s experience supporting entrepreneurs, Kuhlmann offers practical guidance on focusing on business fundamentals\u2014from truly understanding your financials to leveraging your network and improving operational efficiency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">&#8220;The sky isn&#8217;t falling,&#8221; Kuhlmann reminds business owners. &#8220;And even if it feels like it is, you&#8217;ve got options. You&#8217;ve got a community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/opinion\/how-small-businesses-can-take-control-tough-times-op-ed\">Read her full op-ed here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In uncertain economic times, what can small business owners actually control? WBDC President and CEO Erica Kuhlmann addresses this critical question in her recent op-ed for Crain&#8217;s Chicago Business. Drawing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":33231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33769,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33768\/revisions\/33769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}