by Suzanna Martinez | Aug 20, 2026 | Videos
Blanca Abbud — known in the industry as “the PEO lady” — has spent 11 years building a specialty most PEO reps don’t touch: blue-collar and gray-collar businesses, from restaurant groups and food truck operators to warehousing, distribution, and...
by Suzanna Martinez | Aug 18, 2026 | Videos
If you’ve shopped PEOs for more than five minutes, you’ve probably heard some version of this: Insperity is a fantastic company, but they’re going to cost more than the alternatives. I sat down with my longtime Insperity rep — coming up on seven...
by Suzanna Martinez | Aug 16, 2026 | Videos
I sat down with a workers’ comp expert from BBSI (Barrett Business Services Inc.) — a PEO that’s been in business for 70 years and works with roughly 8,500 companies nationally — after a conversation we’d had about a client with 10 W-2 employees and...
by Suzanna Martinez | Aug 14, 2026 | Videos
Brian Smith has spent over 25 years as a commercial insurance broker, and for a large chunk of that career he’s worked almost exclusively with government defense contractors. I asked him to walk through what’s different about insurance — and PEO fit — for...
by Suzanna Martinez | Aug 12, 2026 | Videos
Evan Collart co-founded PEO Advisors out of Tampa Bay in 2010, after starting in the PEO business at 20 years old. His firm’s specialty is narrow and specific: businesses with workers’ comp problems bad enough that standard-market insurance agents...
