5 Best Practices for Working On The Road
Business travel: You either love it or hate it. Maybe your trips take you to far-flung destinations like Paris or the British Virgin Islands. Or maybe, like the rest of us, you find yourself frequently...
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5 Best Accounting Apps to Save Costs and Increase Productivity
Your business exists to make money and accounting is a vital part of that activity. Accounting applications determine whether your business is profitable or not. The upside to such applications is that...
View ArticleLet’s Face It: Your Career Development Is in Your Hands
The front cover of Philadelphia Magazine’s November issue screamed, “We Are All Entrepreneurs Now.” I’ve also heard this concept referred to as YoYo Land (You’re on Your Own). As we take steps to...
View ArticleDavid versus Goliath: Where Is Community Banking Headed?
The fate of many small community banks is likely to be decided by the end of this decade. Everyone has a stake in the eventual outcome but no one’s stake is larger than that of the small business...
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Selling Your Business: 5 Important Considerations
Selling your business involves more than simply cleaning up your offices and making sure you have a website. If you put some strategy into the process and use these five common sense rules you will go...
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Employee Appreciation Is Vital to Productivity
By Maria Elena Duron Does your work environment resonate a culture of gratitude and appreciation? Even if you are a two-man operation, you have to realize that showing appreciation to your teammate is...
View ArticleLooking to Grow Your Small Business? Consider Selling to Uncle Sam
As an entrepreneur always looking to scale up my business, I’m constantly considering new markets and evaluating my customer base to see where there are gaps that can lead to opportunities. That’s the...
View Article7 Things I Would Do Differently If I Started My Small Business Today
As an optimist I usually don’t spend too much time thinking about the past and avoid wasting time on the “what if” question regarding my small business. What if I had started blogging from the get-go?...
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State of Small Business: 15 Facts Small Businesses Owners Want You to Know
We should listen when 1,102 small business owners and executives tell us what’s on their mind. After all, they know what’s going on in small business better than anyone else because they live it every...
View Article5 Common Small Business Owner Challenges, and How to Solve Them
I don’t need to remind you that new challenges for small business owners arise weekly, daily, or even multiple times a day. Don’t let this discourage you! Chances are, you didn’t embark on this journey...
View ArticleThree Key Signposts Along the Entrepreneur’s Path
Entrepreneurs face regular challenges, and when you’re starting out, any sign along the way to let you know if you’re heading in the right direction or if it’s time to change course is welcome. It’s...
View ArticleIs a Pay-In-Full Charge Card Right for Your Business?
Choosing which business card (or cards) to go with really comes down to two different kinds of cards – a pay-in-full charge card or standard APR credit card. And while determining which card is right...
View ArticleTwo Easy Ways to Become a Hands-On Manager
We’ve all seen movies where the main character works at a company with a big shot boss who is hardly ever in the office. Frustration ensues as the star is tasked with working nights and weekends while...
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Never Hire a Qualified Employee When an Over-Qualified One Will Do (The Story...
As a part-time CFO, I’ve hired a lot of people, but none as valuable as Dr. G – a terrifyingly smart, overqualified employee who was grateful for the low-paying job I gave him. How I found Dr. G and...
View ArticleAre Balance Transfer Business Cards a Good Option for Your Company?
Paying off one credit card with another credit card sounds like a slippery slope to follow. And that’s because it is. So-called “balance transfer credit cards” and their zero interest offers applied to...
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