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4 Bookkeeping Tips for Small Businesses
If you know what’s happening to the cash flow in your company, you can make decisions that will improve profits and cash flow long term. Here are three easy small business bookkeeping tips that will save your sanity and help you get started.
Entrepreneurs Must Not Confuse Action with Results
Too many entrepreneurs confuse actions with momentum and results. We all know someone who repeatedly tells us how “busy” they are, when it’s hard to see what they get done.
Could a PEO Help You Grow Your Small Business?
Owning a small business or start-up most likely means you’re wearing many, many different hats. One minute you’re the receptionist; the next the stock-boy; then, the delivery man; and the sales rep; and the human resource director, and on, and on, and on.
5 Things That Are Keeping Your Business from Being More Efficient
Are your profits falling? Are your employees disengaged, unproductive or unhappy? Sometimes it is tough to pinpoint exactly what is draining time or resources for your company.
Make the Lost Week a Busy Week: Kick-Start Success for 2014
It’s known as the “lost week”—the week in between Christmas and New Years. Unless you’re in retail, chances are your business is almost dead during that week, so it’s tempting to take the week off.
Small Business Payroll: Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Payroll Compliance is a challenge that many small businesses struggle with. Payroll done by business owners themselves mean that they need to have the know-how to comply with the Internal Revenue Service’s strict rules regarding accurate reporting & deposits.
5 Steps to Stop Overthinking and Start Testing Something New
We’re big advocates of just trying something and seeing where it goes. Our blog is a good example of that approach. It’s very “Lean Startup”?—we just decided to do it one day, and we did it in about an hour. We tweeted it out and it took off from there. Here’s how other organizations can do the same.
Small Businesses Should Consider International Expansion
Just because you are a “small business” doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be thinking big. Your plans for expanding your enterprise may include opening a second location a few miles down the road or increasing your product line, but you should also consider how you can take advantage of the global marketplace.
How to Make Your Small Business Better by Outsourcing
What small business owner has not wished for an extra pair of hands or more hours in the day? Outsourcing can have very positive effects on your business’s revenue, and your work-life balance.
Time for Your Kick Finish
We all know the concept of a kick start. An extra effort to get the machine going. Then again, there is the kick finish too, although we don’t put it in those terms like we do a machine we do talk about a “kick” at the end of a running race. That extra effort to dig just a bit deeper and drive toward the finish line. NOW is a good time for YOUR kick finish.
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