Posts Tagged ‘Efficiency’
7 Efficiency Lessons from Small Business Owners
When running a business, efficiency isn’t all about energy. In order to ensure that your business is a success, you should take necessary steps to ensure that your business is running as efficiently as possible. Whether this involves putting trust in the rest of your team, or avoiding complacency with your everyday tasks. From small…
Read MoreBottom Up Budgeting Creates Waste
Many people believe that bottom up budgeting leads to waste and misdirection. The advocates of top-down budgeting are strong in their belief that if you give each person or department no guidance, they will budget to their wants or specific needs, not to those that support a corporate goal. So, they argue: Give your people…
Read More5 Easy Ways to “Green” Your Business
Experts estimate that almost three-fourths of American waste is recyclable, but only one-fourth is recycled. However, more and more consumers are concerned about corporate responsibility
Read More How to Automate and Scale Workflow Pipelines
People play an incredibly large part in every company’s workflow. However, us humans can be costly and hard to manage, which creates a challenge when scaling horizontally.
Read More 6 Innovative Solutions for Maximizing ROI
Every company tries to limit costs and increase revenue to maximize overall productivity and profits. However, some costs are unavoidable and must be spent.
Read More What to Outsource as Your Business Grows
As a small business owner, you likely started off your enterprise by handling most major tasks or hiring a small number of employees. The following are some of the tasks and services most commonly outsourced by small business owners.
Read More What About the Customer?
All organizations constantly face the need to simplify their processes, workflow and costs. But in doing so, they can’t focus solely on their own internal operations.
Read More How Effective Meetings Will Save You Money
If you ask yourself how much time you have spent in meetings that do not lead to actionable outcomes, you will probably conclude that most of it was a waste of time for your small business.
Read More Why You Need to Be Smart About Money—Not Cheap
Understandably, to have money, you need to save. But, the trick to a successful business is not just about saving money. It is also about actual survival. To survive, a business has to grow. If it does not grow, it stagnates, leading to eventual failure.
Read More When Being Small Equals Big Advantage
Too often, being a small business is not seen as an advantage. This is for the simple reason that size matters when it comes to many principles of conducting business. For instance, when you go to the bank for a loan, you only get as small an amount as you do business, while large companies have the luxury of running with loads of cash on their balance sheet.
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