Small Business Tips

When you run a business, making sure that you’re hiring the right people to work for it is one of the most important tasks you have. If you don’t get this right, you could end up with a team of people who can’t do the important tasks and don’t know how to …

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Staff training is essential if you want to succeed in the business world. People who don’t invest time and money in helping their team to better themselves will never reach optimum productivity. At the end of the day, the people in your employment are the backbone of your operation. Without …

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Owning a small business or a startup can be an extremely stressful job. Your primary focus is on making a profit and getting your product or service out there in the public eye to drum up an interest in your service. It’s a high pressure situation which needs your utmost …

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Crafting furniture is one of those deeply satisfying trades that still has a lot of demand in the modern world. Everyone needs furniture, after all, and many are willing to spend extra to get those which fit their aesthetic and practical needs. If you have an eye for interior design …

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We’ve all heard the horror stories coming out of businesses like Amazon and Hubspot, about how employees are abused and mistreated, to be discarded at a moment’s notice by a management team who seems to be utterly disengaged from the economic realities and fears of their employees. Little, it seems, …

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For aspiring business owners, the freight business has a lot of obvious appeal. This is a niche that’s never really going to disappear considering all the different businesses that depend on it, and there’s certainly a lot of potential for big returns. However, starting a trucking business is far from …

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(Image Credit) Winter is here and the weather is horrid. It’s the same every year. But, that doesn’t stop employees moaning about the cold and complaining that the heating needs to be turned up. But, in a lot of buildings, you’re simply limited to use what you’ve got. And, in …

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Employee handbooks, employee manuals, procedure manuals, or whatever you want to call them, are generally considered a necessary evil by both business owners and the people who work for them. Employees will often look at them as something of an annoyance – especially if they tend to focus on the …

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Efficiency is the key to success in manufacturing. But what does efficiency really mean? It means getting the best possible value out of processes that use the least possible resources. It means cutting costs. But what it doesn’t mean is sacrificing the quality that people often think of when it …

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A business is an extremely hard thing to run. You have to keep up with the consumer need, ensure your business is still worth running my ensuring repeat custom whilst having to deal with your employees and various other business concerns. You can eliminate a host of stress and unease …

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In business, one of your main challenges is always going to be the matter of how to ensure that things are going as smoothly as possible. Many people know that it is wise to make business processes as easy and smooth as possible. And most business owners are aware of …

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If you’ve ever taken a good look around your office and thought to yourself “wow, this place needs a clean!” then you’re probably knee-deep in grime, spills and horrible bacteria. Let’s face it, keeping clean doesn’t happen because we suddenly notice that our office is filthy (though it is a …

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When you run a business that can be fully conducted online or in a virtual setting, it’s a huge benefit in terms of no commute and you save yourself a lot of money from renting a premises, and on other overheads that may not be there if you had an …

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With the economy about to take a dive, you might be thinking about getting off the job market and starting your own business. If that’s the case, we think you should look into the possibility of setting up a couriering company. There are plenty of reasons why becoming a private …

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When it comes to business reviews or testimonials, there are those businesses that consider reviews extremely important and will do their best to get plenty of reviews, but may not get many; and then there are those that consider reviews important and will continue to get a lot of them. …

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Selling your car to a car buying service who will then retail it to a new customer can arguably get you the best price outside of trying to sell the vehicle privately. This can especially helpful if you want to sell several business vehicles at once. Many car buying services …

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