Can You Finance Your Company with Grants?
There are some grants available even for one person shops, from cities, corporations and even non-profits for just your type of business, especially if you support a social cause, can employ more people, or help turn around a geographic area in need of upgrade.
Read More How to Pick an IT Consultant for Your Business
One of the challenges with operating a small business is the need to bootstrap at every level of operation. Consequently, most small businesses choose not to employ full-time IT staff and instead contract a consultant as and when they are needed.
Read More How to Save Money with GPS Fleet Tracking
For a small business or startup that relies on a fleet to deliver its product or service to its customers, cutting fleet management and operation costs can be one of the quickest ways to boost profits.
Read More It Takes a Village to Grow Your Business
Whether it’s your friends, your family, or a mastermind network of other small business owners, it’s important to surround yourself with a community of supportive people who can both keep your head in the game when times are tough and celebrate with you in times of triumph.
Read More Bartering: Fair Trades or Passing Fancy
Bartering is as old as commerce itself and today a variety of developments have brought renewed interest to this traditional practice. Challenging economic conditions combined with the ease of Internet-based exchanges have made bartering an attractive way of acquiring products and services, especially for newer small businesses.
Read More Should You Forget Facebook?
The success of personal Facebook profiles opened up the idea of Facebook for brands. So Facebook “pages” were launched! It was the start of Facebook becoming serious about monetizing its business.
Read More Will I Benefit from Offering Health Insurance?
Since the Affordable Health Care Act took effect, more small businesses are now required to provide health coverage for their employees. As competition grows in nearly every area for small businesses, having a drawing card like great health benefits can bring in the best employees that might not look at smaller companies otherwise.
Read More Don’t Ignore Email Marketing!
The popularity of social media, content and SEO for marketing has led to a strong belief that emails as a marketing tool are dying. But nothing could be further from the truth.
Read More How to Double Your Productivity (Really!)
The #1 obstacle to being productive is distraction. So any method that helps you eliminate or ignore distractions can greatly improve your productivity. I’ve been using the Pomodoro technique religiously this month and it’s made a noticeable difference in my daily output.
Read More 5 Content Marketing Tactics That Drive Traffic
If you ever wondered why some businesses seem to perpetually be able to keep online visitors interested, but you can’t figure out their secrets, chances are it has a lot to do with certain types of content.
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