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Small Business Employee Hiring Mistakes
It probably started with the first person you hired. As a brand new small business owner, you hired your first employee without knowing exactly what role they would play, a well thought-out job description, no skills testing or resume checking, no source of funding for their pay check and no game plan for getting the best they had to give. Guess who you hired?Read more…Consulting Rates - What Are My Competitors Charging?
Consulting rates of your competitors provide an excellent starting point for your own billing rate analysis. If you know you competitor's consulting rates you can analyze various rate scenarios within a tighter range. You don't want to under or over price your own services and this information gives you valuable insight into what your target clients are currently willing to pay.Read more…Start Up Business Plan - The Benefits
Start up business plans are developed because the process of writing them creates huge benefits. A lot of people resist writing a start up business plan. They are under the false notion that start up business plans are an academic exercise that people are made to do in college or business school.Read more…Selling Products - Is It For You?
Selling products as part of your computer consulting business is an option you should consider. Products can offer an additional revenue stream but you must determine if the extra expense and overhead associated with selling products are a good fit for your business model. You need to sit down and think long and hard about whether you want to be a reseller or if you want to be a pure consultant.Read more…Daily Chores Win More Business
Doing chores is one of the things no one likes to do and therefore they very rarely do it. This means if you decide right here and now that you will do your business chores, you will be ahead of 80% of your competition.What do we mean by a business chore?Read more…Business Opportunities: How to Tell a Get Rich Quick Scam from a Genuine Business Opportunity
Get Rich Quick Schemes - Who Gets Rich, Who Gets Poor?Is your mailbox packed with everything from envelope-stuffing opportunities to horse racing schemes? Have you been conned before?Read more…Name Your Small Business: What to Consider
According to a recent survey of small business owners in the United States, the most stressful thing about starting a new company was not manufacturing of products or advertising to customers, but coming up with a name for the small business. Entrepreneurs spend weeks and even months trying to develop the perfect name.Starting a small business means coming up with a brand that will woo prospective customers and drive traffic to your website or storefront, and the most important part of branding is coming up with a name.Read more…In Small Business, It's Not Easy Being Green
IT'S ABOUT BEING BETTER OR DIFFERENTIn 1981, only 25 years ago, the Personal Computer was introduced by IBM with a modest flourish. It was received with a thunderous “ho-hum" by the corporate world.It was inconceivable that these cute but puny little machines would ever replace those behemoth main frames with their huge computing capacity and endless banks of modular, external memory units that promised almost unlimited power.Read more…Your Business Will Benefit from a SWOT Analysis
You don’t have to be running a multinational company to benefit from a SWOT analysis. No matter what size your enterprise, you will take a benefit from running a quick SWOT check.For those who don't know, a SWOT analysis covers your STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES, and THREATS.Read more…Big is not Everything
I remember some time back, say…about 15 years ago or so…I thought that a company has to be big in order for it to be efficient. Now, with the rapid growth of the Internet, things have changed. Now, a company need not be BIG, MASSIVE and employ THOUSANDS of people all over the world in order to be efficient and famous.Read more…Have You Visited Your Clients Today?
It is so easy to get caught up in the trap of trying to bring in new business all the time and forget about those that have brought us business in the past. The only way to explode your business is to duplicate yourself.If every month you have to get out there and beat the bushes and come up with new business then every month you start out as if it was your first month in the business.Read more…Business Is a Learning Process
Shaping a business is an ongoing process. Just when you think you’ve got it sorted something else crops up to challenge the way you’re working. This doesn’t have to be a bad thing though and we can learn a lot from our experiences.Read more…Do You Need an Automated Timekeeping System for your Cleaning Business?
As your cleaning business grows and you add employees, keeping track of time sheets and adding up hours can be a big headache. If you have just one or two employees a paper time sheet where employees "clock in" and "clock out" for each location they clean may be all that you need to track their hours. However, deciphering data and adding up hours from numerous time sheets can take time away from other profit-making activities as you burn up your time doing payroll.Read more…Discover the Secret to Avoiding the Roller Coaster Income Syndrome
If you’re like most small business owners, when you need business you run out and do lots of marketing; then you get so busy working you get have no time to seek out new clients. The money’s flowing and you get complacent. However, then you finish up your projects and clients and guess what!Read more…Benefits of Accounts Receivable Funding
ATTENTION ALL BUSINESS OWNERSDid you know that your Accounts Receivable can be worth millions in “fast cash” to your business? If the availability of more cash flow can increase your sales, lower your cost, contribute to more rapid company growth then Accounts Receivable Funding is for you.What is Accounts Receivable Funding?Read more…Getting Onto the Ladder
I was on the top of a very high, convex, brown concrete sculpture. Far below me, people were happily milling around and laughing in a plaza, eating ice cream and playing with their children. I couldn’t move backwards or forwards as I was afraid of slipping off this dome that I was on, and fall to my death below - I was really afraid.Read more…Business Process Consulting -- Business Plan Resources
The purpose of having “practice platforms” in a small business setting is to create a common language, a shared approach for corporate team building and a clear performance management process that builds leadership skill development and management capability throughout the business.This is crucial for high performance, as it enables “everybody to sing from the same song book”. It means everyone is on the same page and that they understand and know what their colleagues are talking about.Read more…Mom and Pop and Their Virtual Assistant?
Many different businesses already employ virtual assistants or other online support for everyday tasks. What about those who are not quite as likely to dive into the virtual workforce? Small retail businesses, often know as Mom and Pop shops, are an ideal candidate for virtual employees.Read more…Keep the Cash Coming In: Cash Flow Management
Cash is the lifeblood of a business, regardless of the industry or type of operation. The cash flow needs to be steady and strong for a company to survive and grow. Is there a secret to maintaining a healthy, positive cash flow?Read more…23 Things I know Now that I wish I had known When I Started my Pet-Related Business
1. I’m in charge of my time This is truly eye-opening for most entrepreneurs. It’s about changing your mindset from working ‘in’ your business to working on it. And to establishing your non-negotiable terms for your working hours – no one else will do it for you.Read more…
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The word "best" is always dependent on the context of a situation and the observer. What you consider the best may not be the best for another person. When you want to get a job or start a business, you do aim for what's the best in your eyes. Determining this, however, can be quite hard. How do you choose the best home based business for you? - Getting Things Right With Business To Business Contracts - By: Nazeer Daud
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Let's face facts.... the economy stinks and the job market is a joke. The more experience you have, the harder things are. Why? Kids fresh out of school are willing to work for far less than we are, so we're being put out to pasture while we still have plenty of good years ahead of us. If you think it's easy finding a job in your 40's..... think again. - How Does Digital Printing Work? - By: Joel Owens
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Are you planning to put up your own small business? Then as early as now, you must already be thinking of every aspect of our business and the things that you would need in order for your business to operate well.