{"id":290285,"date":"2026-07-16T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/10-ways-small-businesses-can-use-ai-to-grow-and-even-hire-more-workers\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:35:11","slug":"10-ways-small-businesses-can-use-ai-to-grow-and-even-hire-more-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/10-ways-small-businesses-can-use-ai-to-grow-and-even-hire-more-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways Small Businesses Can Use AI To Grow\u2013And Even Hire More Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnschroyer\/2026\/07\/16\/10-ways-small-businesses-can-use-ai-to-growand-even-hire-more-workers\/\">10 Ways Small Businesses Can Use AI To Grow\u2013And Even Hire More Workers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnschroyer\/2026\/07\/16\/10-ways-small-businesses-can-use-ai-to-growand-even-hire-more-workers\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnschroyer\/2026\/07\/16\/10-ways-small-businesses-can-use-ai-to-growand-even-hire-more-workers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-16 13:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com\">www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"-webkit-line-clamp:2\" class=\"Ccg9Ib-7 _8XF2kHYM\">Small businesses using AI are adding workers as sales grow, a survey shows. Here&#8217;s how to get started.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>getty<\/p>\n<p>A quartet of witnesses testifying this week to the House Small Business Committee disputed the commonly-held belief that artificial intelligence will displace human workers and insisted that small businesses which use AI are likely to wind up having to hire more employees\u2013because they\u2019ll grow.<\/p>\n<p>Already, a majority of small businesses are using AI for a wide range of purposes, said Jordan Crenshaw, senior vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce\u2019s Technology Engagement Center. Last year, 58% of small firms nationwide reported using generative artificial intelligence, an increase from 40% in 2024 and 23% in 2023, he told lawmakers. But the real kicker, he added, is that 82% of small businesses that reported using AI had increased their staff headcounts over the past year. \u201cThese businesses are not using AI to replace people,\u201d Crenshaw said. \u201cThey\u2019re using it to help employees focus on high value work that requires judgment, creativity and relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s the best way for a small business to deploy AI? <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e1d1bc0e9beae91d912f4b226ab053600\"><strong>Focus on what you\u2019re <\/strong><strong>not <\/strong><strong>doing now, that could increase sales.<\/strong> \u201cSo many small businesses don\u2019t have a website,\u201d  observed Chike Aguh, the head of innovation and strategy at the Kapor Center, which promotes inclusion in tech.  \u201cSo many small businesses are not advertising in any way, shape or form because they can\u2019t hire a designer. AI can make those things happen.\u201d  It\u2019s not just about a web site, but about a mind set. \u201cSmall businesses need to think about, \u2018What is not happening in my business that AI can help make happen,\u2019 versus, \u2018What is the thing that&#8217;s happening now that potentially could be done by someone else?\u2019\u201d Aguh told lawmakers.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ea52ad3d4a50ae27b45b39b3055bd7052\"><strong>Start with something that needs to be fixed.<\/strong> \u201cI always advise businesses to start with the problem that is most at hand. What is the thing that bothers them day to&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnschroyer\/2026\/07\/16\/10-ways-small-businesses-can-use-ai-to-growand-even-hire-more-workers\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 Ways Small Businesses Can Use AI To Grow\u2013And Even Hire More Workers https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnschroyer\/2026\/07\/16\/10-ways-small-businesses-can-use-ai-to-growand-even-hire-more-workers\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":290286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imageio.forbes.com\/specials-images\/imageserve\/6a590d63ad69db2dca89c9ad\/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&height=900&width=1600&fit=bounds","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-290285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290287,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290285\/revisions\/290287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}