Posts Tagged ‘Mistakes’
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.
Read More Tis the Season for Online Scams
As a business owner it is important to understand the threats shoppers face to better protect your company and customer data. While making a list and checking it twice is top of mind for shoppers, cybercriminals too are checking their list, creating scams and malware to fool unsuspecting customers to hand over their personal information.
Read More 5 Simple Ways to Increase Employee Productivity
There is an abundance of distractions that prevent employees from being as productive as possible. From cell phones to lack of motivation to employee discomfort, these distractions can cost your company thousands of dollars in wasted time.
Read More Is Your Small Business Victim to These Tax Myths?
If you ever aren’t sure on something a friend tells you about your taxes, always make sure to check the IRS site. If you can’t find the answer there, look to someone who is supposed to know tax laws before deducting anything on your taxes.
Read More The Grinch and Me
‘Twas the night before Christmas / The store had just closed / I tallied receipts / Adding to my woes
Read More 8 Startup Gaps That Will Frustrate Funding Efforts
Too many people still believe the urban myth that you can sketch your idea on a napkin, and people will throw money at you. Fundraising is indeed brutally tough at all stages, and the seed funding is the hardest to find.
Read More Accurate Assumptions Lead to Defendable Plans
The biggest error in planning may not be spreadsheet calculation error. Or cost estimation. It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan.
Read More 5 Quick and Easy Ways to Ramp Up Your Online Security
Let’s face it, the reason you started your own business was hardly to wear the hat of system admin and spend your days worrying about the security and impregnability of your online systems, customer data and IP, was it?
Read MoreSMB Promotional Coupon Marketing Boo Boos to Avoid
Many small and medium-sized businesses have conducted promotional marketing campaigns on sites like Groupon and Living Social and in direct mail coupon value packs. You’d think these coupon deals would be bringing in new and repeat customers like crazy. But are they?
Read More Is Your Creative Business Making These Critical Mistakes?
Time and again I find creative entrepreneurs flying by the seat of their pants and making the same deadly mistakes in their businesses. So today we’re going to look at two of the biggest, and how you can avoid them.
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