Small Business Tips

Hi readers! Recently, I had the honor of being interviewed by Benetrends on how I help women start and grow their businesses. In the interview, I share information about the state of women-owned businesses, work/life balance and even how I got started as an entrepreneur. Here is an excerpt from …

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By: Matthew Griffith Your favorite server just quit. The line cook you thought would be with you forever is moving away. It’s sad and frustrating, but employee turnover also can cost you a lot of money. Between the cost of hours lost to interviewing, of advertising the position, of training …

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No one ever said that owning a business was easy. If you’re experiencing difficulty making a profit, you may need some help. These three tips can help you turn around your business quickly. Follow them, and you may find your company more productive than ever. Focus on the core It’s …

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Smartphones have changed our day-to-day lives – from working practices, to socialising and communication. In the month leading to December 2016, it is estimated that there will be 42.4 million smartphone users in the UK. In January 2017, the Labour Force Survey found that there were 31.85 million people in …

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The humble office, it’s the source of every businesses salvation and their problems too! Offices can be a right pain for you if things go wrong in them as they can seriously disrupt your employee’s work. But what can you do in order to prevent office disasters from happening? Well …

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Starting a small business comes with a lot of pitfalls and setbacks before truly getting off the ground. While you establish yourself in your industry, you’ll learn a lot of lessons about yourself and the way you should change your business to keep it running the way that customers expect. …

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Businesses tend to think of handling data as a one-way street. It isn’t. There is no doubt that securing the company’s sensitive info is paramount. Otherwise, a hacker could easily bring the firm to its knees. But, this doesn’t mean that your data is the only information worth safeguarding. If …

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Strong business communication lies at the heart of all successful entrepreneurial ventures, especially for small to mid sized ones. Therefore, mastering this factor should be one of the top items on the agenda of all startups, as well as companies looking for a revamp. This is unquestionably one of the …

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Any entrepreneur who sets out to create a viable startup will need to make sure they know what they are doing. There are plenty of mistakes to be made, but that doesn’t mean they have to be something you come up against. The fact is, if you use the 5 …

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Employee safety should be among any employer’s top priorities. If a worker gets hurt, he or she could be out for weeks, months or for good. In addition to the lost productivity, it may cost thousands of dollars to pay medical bills and other costs the hurt employee may incur. …

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Being a good employer is about so much more than tacking on a high salary and benefits to a role when you advertise it. As someone running a business, you have to be constantly on the ball about your staff and how they are progressing in your company. The way …

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The way that we measure economic strength is all based on growth. The idea that an economy is just treading water – or worse yet, recessing – is synonymous with the idea that it’s failing. Growth is a sign of a healthy economic status; the same theory applies to business. …

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Overseas work is becoming more and more available for the common man nowadays. It can even be the move that saves your income or a business itself. You can take on various new clients from different cultures and subcultures and even expand your product line to compromise these new needs. …

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There are many keys to success, but intelligence is the key in the business industry. As Francis Bacon once wrote, knowledge is power. This saying has not lost any significance in recent years with the dawn of the digital era. Nowadays, a company cannot afford to be technologically stupid as …

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Providing a service to people is one of the surest ways to get into the world of business. If you’re able to give your customers something that they’re willing to pay for then you’re more likely to succeed, and it’s much easier to provide a service than to create a …

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If you’re responsible for a number of employees, one thing you’ll need to deal with regularly is time off. Employees are entitled to a certain number of days off each year. However, many CEOs and bosses don’t realize that they are handling it all wrong. There are a number of …

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