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Asset Management

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.

Small Business Tips

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.

Pay/Benefits

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.

Employee Issues

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.

Pay/Benefits

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.

Customer Service

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.

Building Management

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.

Business News

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.

Entrepreneur Tips

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.

Marketing Management

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.

Sales Planning

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.

Asset Management

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.

Employee Issues

Tips for Firing a Problem Employee

There may come a time when you must fire an employee. Not just any employee, but one who has presented problems, has been repeatedly disciplined and shows no sign of reform.

Building Management

How to Improve Your Business’s Curb Appeal

Good curb appeal can really aid in bringing in potential customers to a business. The store front is the first thing a person will see, thereby making or breaking a business.

Financing

About Borrowing Money for Your Small Business

There may come a point in your small business ownership where you will want to borrow money. That money may come in handy to help you purchase equipment, expand your location or even to help you meet payroll.

Business Security

What Every Business Needs To Protect Confidential Information

Every day, businesses find themselves troubled with the problems of important information leaking into the wrong hands. In many cases this information is confidential, compromising not only the business but its clients as well.

Advertising

You Can Attract New Customers to Your Store

Your sales are down, your competition is closing in and you are worried about the long-term prognosis for your store. Welcome to the world of retailing where uncertainty is the name of the game.

Operations Management

5 Ways to Ensure Your Business Plant Remains Running Efficiently

Whether you own your own business plant or you are managing it, you know that it is always in your best interests to make sure that it runs smoothly.

Advertising

A Public Relations Plan You Can Implement

Your business has a message, one that you are eager to get out. That message should be disseminated through a public relations plan designed to help you find new customers and increase your sales.

Building Management

3 Signs You Need New Windows for Your Office Building

It’s always a good idea to replace damaged windows with new, energy efficient models, but it can be difficult to figure out when it’s time to replace windows that have simply gotten too old or just aren’t doing the job anymore.

Sales Management

First Tradeshow? Avoid Making a Big Mistake with these Tradeshow “Don’ts”

Although a tradeshow can be a great way to network and get your brand out into the community, many businesses fall flat when they fail to prepare.

M&A Planning

What Is Your Business Worth?

Do you know how much your business is worth? Finding an answer to that question can be elusive, but it is something you can uncover.

Business Planning

Essentials of a Business Action Plan

You have a business plan in place, what provides a blueprint on how your enterprise will be run. Beyond the business plan, an action plan is necessary for carrying out your daily operation.

Other Business Topics

Taking Stock: Five Things You Didn’t Know You Needed for Your Business

When managing your business for the year, you need to think about everything that will make your process run more smoothly.

Raising Capital

4 Methods For Finding Small Business Funding

If your small business needs a capital infusion, turning to your bank is a logical option. Even so, your bank is not the only place you should look nor will you be guaranteed a loan based simply on your current business relationship.