How do I go about attracting, finding, training and most of all being able to retain the right employees?
In general, there are no short cuts to recruiting, hiring and retaining good employees, and the process takes much more effort in low wage industries. These workers will quit any time a better opportunity comes along and, depending on the size of your workforce, you may spend as much or more effort recruiting new employees as you do looking for new clients.
Read More 5 Tax Deductions Small Businesses Shouldn’t Fear Taking
Every tax-filing season, most Americans go on a quest to find as many tax deductions as possible. At the same time, many small business owners and independent contractors leave money on the table because they fear that certain tax deductions will draw the attention of auditors.
Read More 6 Ways to Increase Competency
The first step to increasing your personal and professional competence is to understand you have not arrived. If you believe you have no room to grow, you won’t grow. Once you see there are areas for improvement in your life, growing your competence in those areas is really quite simple.
Read More What’s Stopping You from Hiring an Intern?
Hiring interns is one of the best ways to grow your company, manage market share, and get involved in the local community all at the same time. The altruism and civic-minded nature are beyond what most human resource people realize.
Read More How to Keep the Office Movin’ and Shakin’ During Slow Times
One of the best ways to gain one more customer is to keep your employees happy: your people who deal directly with the people. Here are three suggestions to keep everyone in the office enthusiastic in those less-than-exciting times of the year.
Read More Balancing Work and Play while You’re on Vacation
As a small business owner who’s driven to achieve success, it can be easy to let time get away while focusing on work. Work-vacation balance tips can help business owners who feel they must bring work along with them on vacation.
Read More 4 Ways to Map Your Office Design to Your Company Culture
If you have office space, you can look for ways to optimize it to support the type of culture you want to have—even if you’re a small-business owner. Here are some things you can try to use your office space to support and maintain your culture.
Read More VIDEO: Picking the Right Business for Your Promotional Personality
Knowing your personality and promotional style is the key to choosing the right business. The better your business fits your promotional style, the more promotion you’ll want to do and the greater the chance that you’ll succeed.
Read More Putting Your Best Foot Forward: How to Impress and Court a Franchise Company
In any business venture between two parties, both parties are interviewing and evaluating each other. There is no difference in a franchise/franchisee relationship. For the franchise company to be successful and therefore a good investment for potential franchisees, a fair amount of vetting must be done not only by the potential franchisee, but by the franchisor.
Read More How Should I Go About Choosing a Business Entity Type?
Many small businesses are structured as unincorporated sole proprietorships and General Partnerships due to their formation and maintenance simplicity and costs; however, the primary disadvantage with a sole proprietorship or General Partnership is that it is not a separate legal entity, even when it uses a trade name (also known as an assumed, fictitious business or Doing Business As (DBA) name), and the business obligations and claims of creditors are the personal obligation of the business owner.
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