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…

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Bottom 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…

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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.
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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.
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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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