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Best of small business news: Week of June 29-July 3

Daily recaps of important stories, trends and updates from the small business scene with my fiery commentary
Lex Roman 14 min read
Best of small business news: Week of June 29-July 3
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Last updated: July 4 at 2:13am CT | This post is live updated through Friday

Corrections:
- July 1 Re: beehiiv's State of Paid Newsletters: Added Matt Brown's post about how beehiiv used incorrect data for his publication (off by 50k subscribers)
- July 3 Re: ThriveCart's outage. 1) ThriveCart did send some customers emails about the problem. 2) The AWS outage possibly affected one other company. These corrections are updated in the full story.

Welcome back to a live blog of small business news! Every week, I scour the headlines, the forums, the social media networks, the group chats for the most important info you need to know to make smart business decisions (or just to impress your business friends.)

This week is shaping up to be slower in the business world with a lull in big conferences and happenings. I will be traveling most of the week but I'll still be here at least once a day bringing you my take on the news.

Here's what's shaping up this week...

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