6 Ways to Save Your Accountant's Life Having an accountant for your small business is essential. As a small business owner, you may be used to wearing multiple hats, but unless one of those hats says “finance professional,” it’s in your best interest to pull an accountant you trust into the picture. Too often small...
Hourly Nerd: Turning "That Will Never Work" Into Small Business Success Mark Cuban, self-made billionaire and outspoken Shark Tank investor with a knack for finding and funding promising startups, knows a thing or two about starting and growing businesses. One often-quoted piece of Cuban’s advice is that entrepreneurs should know their core competencies and focus on...
From the Shark Tank to the Trenches: Never Take ‘No’ for an Answer The life of an entrepreneur is full of ups and downs. Not only do you have to fully embrace regular challenges and ambiguity—you must possess unrelenting persistence, belief and focus. And that’s just for the day-to-day operations. However even with all its challenges, entrepreneurship...
Hustle In the Hood: Small Businesses in High Crime Areas Face More Challenges Last night someone rammed their SUV into the fence and security booth of my church in Newark, NJ. Thankfully no one was hurt. This is just one of a string of challenges that have occurred to our church (and members) over the...
Breaking the Barrier: 4 Ways to Raise Capital for Your Business Like every entrepreneur you have a great idea or service that you know will make you wealthy, however you have come to realize that it takes more than you thought. More time, more research, and more capital. The time and research is manageable, however raising capital...
Don’t Sacrifice Profit for Value: Innovate and Automate your Business Do you want to grow your business this year? Of course, you do. But before you launch your next marketing blitz, ensure that your business can manage an increased portfolio. Adding on new clients is not always easy. In fact, in some cases it can...
FOCUS: Stand Out From the Competition by Carving Out Your Unique Niche The sports, fitness and leisure industry is a giant, generating around $500 billion in revenues each year in the United States alone, according to Plunkett Research. Counting professional athlete, coaches and employees at fitness, winter sports and golf facilities, more than 1.3 million...
[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]With a new year just around the corner, now is the time that businesses of all sizes reflect on the past year to review their successes and failures and develop or finalize a plan for the coming year. As a part of this plan, each business should consider shifts in their industries,...
[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]Every year – sometime in December – folks start the tradition of deciding on a New Year’s Resolution. For many it’s how to better themselves, personally, in the New Year. Drop 10 pounds, run a marathon, spend more time volunteering – these are some of the typical resolutions we all hear...
[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]Over the past few weeks I’ve taken a look at Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. All three of these online file storage products let you store and synchronize your files across multiple devices and let you access them from anywhere you can get an Internet connection. As I’m writing this, I'd be remiss to not...
