Posts Tagged ‘Operations’
Documenting Your Workflow: How and Why
One of the 7 Business New Year’s Resolutions we recommended last month involved documenting your workflow. Putting each step of your workflow into writing (or recording it in some other fashion) can make a big difference in how smoothly your company runs.
Read More Effective Small Business Lending Advice for Coffee Shops
Because so many Americans drink multiple cups a day, people are reliant on coffee shops and cafes for their daily caffeine intake. Are you doing your best to serve them well so they’ll keep coming back?
Read More 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.
Read More Steps to Getting Your Small Business on the Cloud
The popularity of cloud computing for small business continues to boom. To attach some numbers to this claim, only five percent of small businesses used the cloud in 2010, whereas 43 percent of small businesses use the cloud in 2013.
Read More 80 Percent of Customer Service: Just Being Nice
Woody Allen once said, “80 percent of success is just showing up.” To that I would add, “80 percent of customer service is just being nice.”
Read More Strategy for Streamlining Your Processes
Every startup has to develop a process for doing business. Whether that means the business owner has sketched a detailed map of each employee’s day-to-day functions or merely drawn out a list of guiding principles that lead the organization through each and every business transaction.
Read More Energy Saving Tips
There are a number of reasons for your business to pursue green initiatives. Not only will they save you money when it comes to overhead, but they will promote your company as a business that cares about the world it operates in…
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