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Collaborative Trainings: How to Make Your Company More Cohesive
Training programs are an essential part of any company’s professional development strategy. Still, many training programs can be prohibitively expensive and take employees away from their jobs during the training sessions, which can disrupt productivity.
Lease Considerations for Home-Based Businesses
Your home-based business is booming. You’ve expanded beyond the den and have taken over the garage and the shed out back. You never imagined that your business would grow so big, but now it threatens to consume your entire home.
Workforce Woes: Areas Where Your Employees Are Costing You Money
“It’s hard to find good help.” Employers have been saying it for decades, but the sentiment seems more relevant now, even considering today’s competitive job market. Socializing and wasting time have always been productivity sponges, but contemporary business owners have more hurdles now with the Internet and social media.
How to Make a Business Trip a Positive Experience
Just because a trip is for business doesn’t mean it can’t be fun, too.
How to Help Your Franchise Succeed
You are a new franchise owner or are seriously considering buying into one. Franchising provides a proven business model, but your due diligence can save you a lot of grief.
Building Your Leadership: 4 Ways to Increase Your Leadership Skills
Leadership skills are not acquired from birth. They are learned and practiced consistently throughout a person’s life.
Business Structure: S Corporation
When starting a business you have a number of different Business structures to consider. An S Corporation one such structure, representing a special type of corporation chosen as part of an IRS tax choice.
Not Financially Savvy? 5 Resources to help you Handle Your Company Finances
From analysis to budgeting, and taxes to audits, there are plenty of things to worry about when it comes to handling the finances for your start up.
How Best to Respond to Online Complaints
The Internet has brought small businesses to a whole, new world. New contacts, customers and suppliers can be reached online, breaking down barriers that once existed.
How to Best Manage Your Company Fleet
Managing a fleet of trucks, whether they’re delivery trucks, service trucks, or otherwise is a difficult task. Keeping track of so many moving parts can be overwhelming, to say the least.
Save Money with the Home Office Tax Deduction
If you manage a home-based business, you may be eligible to take a federal tax deduction. Such a deduction can reduce your tax burden, saving you money.
5 Ways Obamacare May Be Affecting Your Small Business
There are many ways that the current healthcare legislation will make things potentially difficult for small businesses. Business owners with 50 employees are more will be required to purchase insurance plans for 100% of their employees or have to pay a penalty.
How to Take the Toxic Out of a Business Environment
Your company no longer runs as smoothly as it once did. Indeed, your profits are down, customers are leaving and your competitors are nipping at your heels.
Simple Ways Any Business Can Improve Their Employee Retention Rate
High employee turnover can impact your bottom line. The added expenses of training and hiring bonuses, combined with lost work hours that can add stress to the rest of the team, can turn into a big disaster.
Client Satisfaction and Your Small Business
Happy customers make for a healthy business. The greater your customer satisfaction, the more likely you are enjoying the profits that go with it.
5 Ways to Protect Your Business against Freezing Weather
A pipe that has busted during the cooler months is very common in areas where temperatures can drop to freezing levels. Commercial properties are especially vulnerable to these plumbing accidents when the pipes are protected.
Increase Productivity and Reduce Stress with 5 Super Effective Diet Tweaks
In today’s celebrated culture of entrepreneurship and business ventures, working hard is a sure recipe for success but, at the same time, it is also the underlying cause of fatigue, stress, and poor dietary habits.
14 Businesses You Can Start on the Side
You may be working full time and happy with your job or you may be stuck in a part-time rut and desiring something much more. Starting your own business on the side can be a great way to supplement your income and might possibly lead to a career change.
5 Small Business Marketing Suggestions to Boost Revenue
Sales are an essential activity for every business. It enables a business to employ individuals, purchase devices, and manufacture items or provide services.
How to Build a Successful Sales Team
Your business needs to increase its sales, but you are finding it difficult to raise those sales by more than 1 percent per month.
Up in Flames: 5 Tips to Protecting Your Business Assets from Fire
Imagine receiving a call from a neighboring business owner in the early morning hours, there’s been a fire and the future of your business has been jeopardized.
