{"id":64507,"date":"2025-11-29T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/64507\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T14:59:07","slug":"small-business-saturday-brings-excitement-to-southwest-floridas-local-shops-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/64507\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Business Saturday brings excitement to Southwest Florida&#8217;s local shops | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local shops in Southwest Florida are eagerly anticipating a boost in business on Small Business Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>This national shop-local initiative began in 2010, spearheaded by American Express and the Small Business Administration.<\/p>\n<p>WINK News is at the event at Moonflower Market in Cape Coral, covering the preparations for the day&#8217;s rush. The market is set to open its doors to shoppers seeking unique items unavailable at large retailers.<\/p>\n<p>Florida has been recognized as the <a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-states-to-start-a-business\/36934\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">best state to start a small business in 2025<\/a>, according to WalletHub. The state also boasts the second-highest number of startups per capita and the highest percentage of adults involved in entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p>As Moonflower Market prepares to open, the excitement for Small Business Saturday is palpable, promising a day dedicated to supporting local businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local shops in Southwest Florida are eagerly anticipating a boost in business on Small Business Saturday. This national&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,36597,1521],"class_list":["post-64507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-small-business-saturday","tag-southwest-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}