Management
This Caught Our Eye: 7 Tips for Effective Invoicing
In any small business, getting paid in full and on time is absolutely essential for survival. Ironically, many small business owners don’t pay enough attention to their invoicing and collection processes and find themselves in a constant cash-flow bind. (We’ve…
This Caught Our Eye: 85 Essential Start-up Resources You Should Know About
The title may say “start-up”, but there’s something for businesses of every age in this fantastic list of online business helpers and guides. From apps that help you choose a business name to software that tracks your work flow to…
Loose Lips Sink Small Businesses: Protecting Your Trade Secrets
Think you don’t have trade secrets? Anything that gives you a competitive advantage and you wouldn’t want a competitor to know is a trade secret, so you must have at least one! For a restaurant or bakery, that might…
This Caught Our Eye: Five Rookie Website Mistakes You Can Fix Today
We don’t consider ourselves website rookies, but since we’re about to launch a redesign of our website, we were particularly interested in this article from MarketingProfs.com . And boy, was it an eye-opener! Three of the five mistakes are related to social media…
This Caught Our Eye: Running a Small Business from a Smart Phone
No surprise here: according to Desk.com, a customer-support application developer, 85% of American small business owners are running their business from their smartphones. For some, that just means checking email and synching calendars, but for the more tech savvy entrepreneurs,…
You’re Never Too Small for a Handbook
Your business isn’t legally required to provide an employee handbook, but regardless of your size, it’s still a good idea to furnish something in writing – even just one sheet – that explains basic terms of employment. Here’s why: It’s…
You and Your Business Could Use a Vacation
If you care about the health of your business, not to mention your own well-being, you’ll take a vacation! Eighty-two percent of small-business owners who took a vacation reported an increase in job performance upon their return to work, according to…
This Caught Our Eye: A Small Business Guide to Intellectual Property
No matter what field you may be in, your intellectual property – business idea, name, logo, aesthestic design, etc – is the foundation of your enterprise. It tells the ‘story’ of your business and differentiates you from your competitors. Intellectual…
This Caught Our Eye: 10 Myths Small Business Owners Believe About Their Insurance
Small Business Trends (smallbiztrends.com) is on most top 10 lists of small business blogs for a good reason – it provides great information in an easily digested format. Its recent post on business insurance – 10 Myths Small Business Owners…