Mixing Business Trips with Vacation
If you thought your business trips can be expensive, you need to think again. If you plan and strategize, the government can subsidize your trip so that your trip expenses are minimal. The idea is to combine your business travel with vacation time and document the time spent on business.
Read More VIDEO: Why You Must Pick a Tight Niche
Trying to make your business appeal to as many people as possible can be a disaster. Here’s why.
Read More Niche Positioning in the Franchise Industry
As franchisees grow their business and continuously strive to exceed their customers’ expectations, franchisors must provide a very high quality and breadth of franchise support services.
Read More Decision Making
In business and in life, people must remember to be themselves. It’s easy to look at someone as a role model and try to emulate them in your actions. You can take ideas from other people and build them into who you are, but you have to stay true to yourself when making decisions.
Read More I’m thinking about hiring my first employee. What should I do?
When growing a business, entrepreneurs typically reach a point in the process where they must consider the prospect of adding staff. There are several important things to consider when hiring employees, which include: labor laws, compensation structure, fringe benefit programs, and workers’ compensation.
Everything Begins with Principles
Instead of talking about principles, we spend a lot of time talking about rules: “Do this, do it this way, don’t do that.” When our rules don’t cover everything, we’re lost. We don’t know what to do. Generally, the reaction is to create more rules.
Read More 3 Ways to Market Like a Dog
Yesterday was International Dog Day. At least that’s what it says on my calendar. So, how to tie this annual event with marketing? Try this on for size…
Read More Characteristics of an Effective Team
Whether it’s a band, a sports franchise or a company, chemistry is what makes teams great. Much of modern business thinking is centered on understanding what makes great teams tick. More often than not, effective teams share the following five characteristics.
Read More 5 Tips for Getting the Best Business Loan
As the job market and overall economy in general continue to improve, lenders seem to be beginning to loosen up capital for more and more business loans. Programs designed to incentivize banks to make loans to small businesses, in the hopes that those businesses will then use the cash influx to create jobs, make loans possible even for less-than-stellar applicants.
Read More 6 Acts to Keep the Focus on Urgency vs. Emergency
In business and startups, a “sense of urgency” is a good thing. Yet many entrepreneurs confuse this with a “sense of emergency,” which insidiously saps the life from their business.
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