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It’s Time to Clean Up That Accounting System
A new year means a new, clean slate. Take some time now to shed the accounting and financial garbage you don’t need...
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The Danger of Doubt
Hopefully, your experience as a small-business owner has included at least a couple days when you have felt triumphant. Of course, not...
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Client Clash: How Do You Deliver Bad News to Customers?
Service-based businesses thrive on delivering top-notch results to customers. Delivering bad news requires quite a different skill set.“Often, news is bad only...
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#Winning: How Not To Screw Up Your Hiring Strategy
One of the most difficult challenges that small-business owners face today is finding, recruiting and retaining new talent, yet few have a...
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Skip the Pep Talk: Whip Those Employees Into Shape
As business owners, we love to discuss ways to improve our employees’ attitudes. Throw a party. Tell inspiring stories at the company...
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The Business Owner’s Guide to Holiday Bonuses
It’s that time of year again! The holidays, when small-business owners face myriad challenges – a slowdown and a bit of quiet,...
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When is it OK to Give Price Breaks?
In service-based industries, it’s difficult to know where to draw the line with discounts, and when to simply let the business go....
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Pump Up Your Profits!
Business-building advice. Networking. Financial tips. Take advantage of a great opportunity to learn how to make your business more profitable.Plan now to...
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Bite Into These Goal-Setting Tricks
We’ve heard about the importance of setting goals all our lives. For some, the word conjures ugly thoughts of New Year’s resolutions...
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Why You Need to Get the Heck Out of Town
It’s one of the biggest paradoxes of entrepreneurship: The thing that should be so easy and so enticing — taking a little...
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Do You Know How To Price a Job?
You want to make more money. Good for you. And it’s good business. Here’s the problem. A customer balks at your prices....
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3 Reasons to Take Control of Your Fleet
A recently conducted survey of fleet management executives across the United States by a GPS fleet and asset tracking firm identified the...
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Eliminate the Middle Man With Photo Mobile App
FotoIN provides a necessary photo documentation system for a number of industries by eliminating the middle man and improving communication between off-site...


















