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Choosing your employees

Once your business reaches new heights where taking on additional employees is necessary, you enter a whole different playing level. You are no longer one of the crew, you become the manager no matter how deeply you muck in with…
Anna
September 27, 2016
Business tips

Strategic business planning: Goal setting

As business owners, we are often so consumed by the day-to-day activities of running a business that there is little time or resource to assess strategy. It is easy to forget that strategy is essential to the success of a…
Anna
August 30, 2016
Business tipsTechnology

How to embrace new technology

Do you remember the last time that you had to fumble as you fed a printed document into a fax machine? Not knowing if it had reached its destination? Thankfully, it is a tedious process that we don’t have to…
Anna
August 16, 2016
Business

Make marketing a full time job

Your brand is the sum of many parts, and most of them are based on perception. You are more than welcome to spread any information about your company that you'd like, but if your actions and public persona disagree with…
Anna
July 12, 2016
Business

Good staff is good business

You're the driving force in your business, but without your employees, you'd never be where you are today. Your human capital is a serious investment, and your team deserves the attention you'd give any major expense to your company. Once…
Anna
July 5, 2016
Business

Looking at the bigger (financial) picture

Understanding the financial health of your business can be extremely overwhelming, especially if you're too busy on the floor with your team to take a look at what's going on at a higher level. It may be easy to think…
Anna
June 28, 2016
Technology

Why technology matters

Technology is a vitally important part of doing business, especially in this day and age. How you market your services, how customers interact with you, and how sales are made is often directly linked to how well you use modern…
Anna
June 21, 2016
Business

Business best practice: learning to say no

Determining what is and is not okay when dealing with your employees, your customers, and your vendors can make or break your long-term success. Every business owner has his or her own comfort levels, but knowing how to set limits,…
Anna
June 7, 2016