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How to Recruit Top Talent for Your Small Biz – Advice from Ramon Ray
Most U.S. businesses operate with a very small number of employees. In fact, if you add non-employer businesses with employer firms, you find that 97.9 percent of U.S. businesses have less than 20 workers! This means that the average business is powered by an extremely small staff and still has a ton of work to...
Got Growth Goals? 8 Uncommon Areas to Assess for Your Business Growth Strategy
As small business owners, it’s important always to be looking at where our growth will come from. Seems obvious, but most people automatically shoot for more clients. That’s great, we all want more clients, but growth doesn’t always have to come from gaining more clients. There may come a time in your business where you...
How Small Business Can Prevent and Recover from Security Threats: An Interview with Norman Guadagno
Keeping data secure is a must for every small business. While many small businesses feel that they are safe, or immune, from today’s cyber criminals, they are not. New threats arise every day, and savvy hackers are finding new ways of taking advantage of those who are not protected. Imagine this scenario: you are super...
The 5 Biggest Mistakes Start-Ups Make When Hiring
Hiring is one of the most important parts of setting up a business and, simultaneously, the source of the biggest mistakes. Recruitment is quite a demanding task to complete, but with the recent boosts in technology, it has become easier and more efficient. Mistakes, however, still occur and the best way to avoid these...
Grit – Why Passion and Perseverance Are Essential For Entrepreneur Success
I'm not a sports fan. However, I've been mesmerized at how the Cleveland Cavaliers were down 3 to 1, in the NBA Championship 2016 and Lebron James, in large part, brought them back to WIN the Championship - a feat never done before. A major play in this comeback was the perseverance and grit of the...
Entrepreneur Ciara Stockeland on the Challenges and Nuances of Starting a Franchise Business
There are at least 28 million small businesses in the US which account for about 54 percent of all sales. There are also 900,000 franchise businesses across 300 business sectors of the economy. And yet, despite these numbers, it’s not often that you will come across small business brands that are also franchises. This is where...
How Automation Software Improves Customer Service
The cost of providing superior customer service is high, but the cost of not providing excellent service is a loss that no amount of price cutting or product innovation can substitute. It’s a given that customers are the most important asset any business can have, so it’s understandable that owners and managers sometimes shy...
Business Growth Strategies for Niche Businesses: Josh Cohen of Junkluggers
It’s not easy for anyone who has a crazy business idea to get to the point of implementing it. And yet, we frequently meet people who run businesses that make us think, “Hmmm. Why didn’t I think of doing that myself?” One such person who had a business idea and decided to just go for...
5 Time Management Tips for Busy Mompreneurs
As a mom who also has a full-time job running your own business, you likely have more things to do than the time to do them. You might feel as if you can barely handle being a mom and running your business. Because time management can be a challenge, you can use these strategies...
Foster Team Innovation: How to Sort Out the Good and Bad Ideas In Your Next Meeting
Picture this: You’re sitting around a table with your team. Someone asks one question, then another. Another person makes a suggestion about a product, then a new marketing strategy, and somehow, 30 minutes later you’re all talking about something entirely unrelated. If you’ve ever worked on a team, you know that there is a delicate...
Using the Power of the Internet to Build a Manufacturing Business: An Interview with Laina Gossman
Getting a product-based business off the ground has unique challenges compared to service-based businesses. Not only do you have to deal with marketing, branding, finding leads, and growing customers, but you also have to handle the designing and manufacturing of a physical product. Not knowing how to convert the idea into a mass-produced product...
Preventive Maintenance: Why Every Business Owner Needs To Prevent Problems Before They Happen (Video)
Recently, our local boiler company came by to do preventive maintenance on our boiler. There was nothing wrong with the boiler; it works just fine. And the reason our boiler works fine is because of preventive maintenance. The boiler company comes by each year to change parts and tune up the system, and these...