Hiring employees in a small business really takes a small business to the next level. If you are a small company, perhaps even doing all of the work yourself, you may be ready to expand, or at least hire a few extra people to help you to manage the business. You can often do this without a problem, if you … Continue reading
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How to streamline your Business’s Spending and Processes?
Making a business more efficient can help your business to be more profitable and nimble. Streamlining your business is something each business owner should take into consideration every few years. When you step back to see your processes and your spending critically, you always find a way to do it better. Focus On Paper Consumption quick facts series. Each year, … Continue reading
Entrepreneurship
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Can you be Your Own Boss?
So you’ve been considering starting your own business. Are you’re the right person to be your own boss? Far too often, the only reason one doesn’t give entrepreneurship a try is fear. Building a dream into reality is exciting, challenging, time consuming, and frustrating. But at the end of the day, if you are a good at what you do, … Continue reading
How to Handle of Late or Absent Payments
When you extend credit to a customer you are assuming they will pay the amount owed in the agreed upon time, which is commonly 30 days. If payments do not arrive you should not hesitate to immediately follow up either via phone or email sending a reminder that payment is due. Late payment is likely caused by deliberately stalling or … Continue reading
Protecting Your Business Partner Investment With Life Insurance
When you have a business partner, that person is an integral part of your business and while we don’t like to think about it, what would happen if your business partner died tomorrow? Of course, it would be personally devastating, but it could also destroy your business. Most of us think about life insurance as something we buy to protect … Continue reading
Online Business Partner Networks
Business partners have been around almost as long as businesses have. Choosing a business partner has never been an easy task. It’s about bringing together two or more people that can each bring something to a business. Today it is actually quite easy to find a business partner, thanks to the many online business partner networks that exist. If you … Continue reading
5 Tips for Selling a Business
If you’ve decided, the time to sell your business has arrived, follow these 5 tips to ensure maximum profit. You’ll be happy you did! Way back when you first started your business, you likely didn’t think about selling your business down the road, or maybe you did. After a number of years of working really hard and turning your business … Continue reading
How Overseas Transportation Costs Affect Your Business
Today’s global economy has changed the way businesses buy their stock. In the past almost all businesses except for the larger companies would use a wholesaler to obtain the product(s) they wanted to sell. Today, there are few wholesalers left and most businesses, even small ones, can order directly from China or other countries reducing their costs. China is the … Continue reading
The Role of Creative Thinking in a New Product Launch
Most of us are creatures of habit, and that includes entrepreneurs. If a business is running smoothly, we stick with what we’ve been doing. That may not be the best plan of attack if you want to expand. Offering new products or services is one way to grow your business, but you need to be creative about how you introduce … Continue reading
