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Top 8 Tips for Preventing Employee Theft
Employee theft is not unheard of. In fact, it is one of the most serious threats that loom over small businesses. Slack recruitment, careless supervision, misdirected trust, and a lack of financial controls can ultimately result in internal theft or employee theft.
8 Reasons Why It Pays to Outsource
Companies use outsourcing to delegate various types of business processes to other parties or agencies for a variety of reasons. Whether it be benefiting from the competitive cost of labor or loosening up the load on internal personnel, outsourcing is the most economical and sound solution in many different scenarios.
10 Tips to Better Employee Training
While training your new employees is one of the most costly components of your HR needs, it’s also one of the most essential. A well-trained employee will thrive in her work environment, make your job easier, and keep customers happy.
5 Signs You Should Expand Your Business
It’s important to know when you’re ready to expand and how to begin the process without becoming overwhelmed. But how do you know the time is right?
Fraud is No Small Business
It’s unfortunate but true: fraud happens to small businesses all across the country. Whether it is employee theft or false injury claims, your small business must be prepared for any fraudulent claims that come its way.
3 Signs You’re Focusing on the Wrong Performance Metrics
Big companies like Target and Amazon are particularly adept at the art of performance metrics. But you don’t have to run a massive retail corporation to intelligently track customer behavior and your team’s performance. You just have to know which performance metrics to focus on and how to analyze them.
Making the Most of Your Business Insurance
When it comes to business insurance, cost is usually the thing at the forefront of every business owner’s mind. While keeping costs to a minimum is important in every aspect of startup, truly making the most of your business insurance is about getting value for your money, and the best deal rather than the cheapest.
Surprise: Men and Women are Different
Loyalty programs that include both men and women must consider the way that men and women view loyalty. Even though many companies see the marketplace from a unisex perspective, genetics and chemistry demonstrate that differences do exist between sexes.
The Secret Weapon of the Most Inventive Minds
I’ve noticed something about the most successful and innovative entrepreneurs and business people; they see frustration as opportunity—a chance to do something better, cheaper or faster.
The “Drop Dead” Question for a Customer Survey
Sean Ellis, the marketing guru behind DropBox and other successes, advises clients that, “The most important question on a survey is, ‘How would you feel if you could no longer use this product?'”
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