(Monday, August 31, 2020) While SmallBusiness.com does not report stock market news, today’s second-quarter earnings of the videoconferencing company, Zoom, is as much a small business culture story (for how it has changed many small businesses during the past six months) as it is a business one. The pandemic has transformed every kind of small business — buyers, sellers, virtual-webinar-attendees, you name it — into Zoom users. This afternoon, the company reported revenue for the quarter was $663.5 million, up 355{a87f602f9b65d268d2531d6307ed39cfde24e475374069973d0be7fc923da513} year-over-year. The company made as much money in May, June and July as it did in all of 2019, beating even the high anticipation of Wall Street. It is hard…

August 31, 2020 8 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Many people think we’re at the peak of the “creator economy,” pointing to supply saturation, overvalued tech startups and creator burnout as their central arguments. But I think we’re at the beginning. After building a technical product that has facilitated thousands of influencer marketing activations, I can assure you that technology has a long way to go to help existing and aspiring creators achieve their financial goals. One-third of kids between the ages of 8 and 12 aspire to be either a vlogger or a Youtuber. Kids are no longer aspiring to be doctors, lawyers, engineers;…