Boost Your Accounting Know-How with These Terms
The field of accounting has its own vocabulary, which can sound like a foreign language to some people. Your financial savvy will increase by learning a few new accounting terms. You’ll be “speaking accounting-ese” in no time, and you’ll become...
Try Something New
When running a business, it's easy to get stuck in a rut. Ruts, even if they are making you money, are not good for you or your business. If you are doing things the same way day after day, you will not create or see new opportunities and might not identify market...
Five Fun Customer Perks to Set You Apart in the Marketplace
It’s always fun to surprise and delight your customers. This puts a smile on your client’s face, boosts loyalty, and is fun for your employees too. Here are five ways to surprise and delight your customers with inexpensive perks. 1. Handwritten thank you note. Email...
Cool Apps: Food Delivery Options
If you haven’t looked recently, there is a whole new world out there designed for our convenience. One of these conveniences is food delivery. This industry has changed so much that it deserves a fresh look. No longer do you need to go out for lunch if you are having...
Outsourced Bookkeeping
Bookkeeping! For most people, the word alone can be stressful. Many business owners take two common approaches to tackling the issue of bookkeeping. They try to do it themselves - which is time-consuming and can lead to costly mistakes They pay large firms to do it -...
How to Evaluate Your Marketing Spend
One of the most important success factors of small businesses is the ability to generate revenue, and to do that, most businesses need to market their services and products to bring in new customers and sales. The challenge for small business is how to make their...
Making Deadlines Can Save You Big Bucks in Your Business
There are a lot of deadlines that come with running a business. Missing some deadlines can have serious financial implications to the health of your business. Let’s take a look at how much you’ll save by being on time with the following deadlines. Payroll One of the...
Bookkeeping and Accounting Basics
Many new business owners are daunted by the idea of bookkeeping and accounting; most have not been trained to any degree in either field. Obviously, for the professional bookkeeper or accountant, both are fairly simple. Bookkeeping is the practice or profession of...
Is Your Workplace Female-Friendly?
Attracting and retaining talent in your small business can be a giant step toward growing into a mid-sized business. Beyond attracting new employees with salary and benefits, here are several perks, policies, and benefits to consider when recruiting women, and...
Three Super-Easy Ways to Boost Your Revenue for 2018
Every business has a gold mine in its current customer base. But not all business owners remember to mine this gold because they are too busy trying to attract new customers or developing new products or services. This is the perfect time of year to step back and...