Category: Business Tips

Productivity Tools for Small Businesses

2/12/2020

Do you want to be more productive? First, let's consider how you and your staff are spending time. As your company grows, it becomes increasingly important to keep on top of who is spending how much time doing what. Time management tools can help. Being on top of accountability and process improvement will help you enhance productivity measures.

Health-Care Coverage as a Recruiting and Retention Tool

1/29/2020

It is not news that the talent shortage is making employers think about ways to attract and retain exceptional talent. Offering a range of benefits is one such method they are using, and the statistics bear them out: 80 percent of workers would keep a job with benefits rather than take one that offered more pay but no benefits. It should come as no surprise the Society for Human Resource Management found that retention (72 percent) and recruiting (58 percent) were top reasons companies increased their benefits.

Is This Your Situation: Trying to Maintain Internal Controls

11/20/2019

According to a spokesperson from the Risk Unit of Marquette University of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "Establishing effective internal controls can help a department operate more efficiently and effectively and provide a reasonable level of assurance that the processes and products for which it is responsible are adequately protected."

Focus on Forecasting: Keeping Your Business on Track

11/6/2019

Budget forecasting is an essential part of good financial management, yet many companies rely on their once-a-year projections throughout the year. Although that strategy may have worked in the past, it’s no longer effective. Things are moving too fast: Technology, government regulations and artificial intelligence are only some of the disruptors businesses are subject to on a regular basis.

Key Tax Issues for Small Businesses

4/10/2019

Don't scramble to get all your finances together a few days before the deadline. If you do, you're setting yourself up for disaster.

How to Launch a Business

2/27/2019

How do you get from the dream to fundraising to business plan to opening? Successful business owners recount how their meetings with potential investors helped them revise their business plan, refining the numbers and focusing on the culture they wanted to create.

What Is the Path to Profitability?

9/26/2018

How long has it been since you've taken a deep look at your business? Maybe you're focusing so much on what you need to do today that you aren't examining long-term issues that can affect your profitability. Here are some tasks that can take you where you want to be.

Passwords: Making Them Hard to Crack

8/15/2018

Why work on making your passwords stronger? Hackers will attack the low-hanging fruit first. What attackers will do is steal the storage of passwords on a vulnerable screen. These passwords are encrypted, but with tools like Pwdump, Airodump-Ng and the Meterpreter, hackers can take as much time as they need to crack your password.

Take Advantage of the Small Business Administration

7/4/2018

How can the Small Business Administration help you grow your business? Take a quick look at how the SBA works.

Do You Need to Hire a Business Consultant?

6/20/2018

Thinking that maybe an outside expert can help you solve an internal business problem? Here are the positives to hiring a business consultant. They can

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