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How Small Business Owners Can Save on College Costs
10 Strategies to Help You Save on College Costs For small business owners, understanding three little words—expected family contribution, or EFC—can save on college costs (we’re talking thousands of dollars). How you structure your business, where you hold assets and which schools your child applies to all affect your EFC. So, where to begin? Try […]
Create Success by Using Delegation to Develop Others
Grow Your Business by Using Delegation to Develop Others As a manager, you’re often told of the value of using delegation to develop others. Delegation can help you focus on the tasks where you’re most needed and can help scale your business in accordance with your goals. Still, the question remains: Who do you delegate […]
Why Blockchain for Small Business is the Future of Commerce
Blockchain for Small Business is a Must As a business owner, why should you care about blockchain for small business, cryptocurrency, token offerings and all these new terms and tech that have been buzzing about? For those of you that haven’t heard these terms and aren’t familiar with the space, you should search “Blockchain” or […]
Building the Best Strategy to Drive Cash Allocation
Cash Allocation Challenges Businesses For most businesses, cash allocation is a challenge. Margin pressure, seasonality, credit risk, and bank covenants make it a constant chore. Cash is the oxygen of business. You can’t run low and survive. For successful businesses, the opposite is true. They have too much cash. Apple is a well-discussed example. The […]
Four Questions that Drive Business Growth and Transformation
You Can Drive Business Growth Forward- or Backward Many businesses on the precipice of growth or those preparing to enter a new chapter are searching for ways to drive business growth, but can find themselves struggling to move into that next big phase. This can happen for a number of reasons, whether it’s a lack […]
What Should Employers Do to Prevent Wage Discrimination Claims?
Are Wage Discrimination Claims Avoidable? An employer can be sued by an employee for all sorts of things. Specifically, wage discrimination claims is an area that every employer should understand because they are so easy to avoid. One example would be a lawsuit by an employee (I use the term to include a former employee) […]
Make Outreach Effective Fast: Learn How to Use Facebook Ads
Learn How to Use Facebook Ads to Keep Up with the Pace Chances are if you’re reading this, you may be one of the 50 million businesses maintaining a Facebook page. Businesses in all shapes and sizes have a Facebook presence, all the way from Starbucks (37,240,603 likes as of press time) to Harvard Business […]
Sacrificing for Service: Military Spouses Can Break Free from Unemployment and Depression
How Unemployment and Depression Affect Military Spouses Everyone knows that people get down in the dumps when they are out of work, but did you know the “out-of-work-blues” can become full-blown depression that often requires medication to resolve? Unemployment and depression have strong ties. While recent unemployment rates for the United States hover around 4.1 […]
Ramp Up Your Client Base in 3 Simple Steps with Lead Generation Strategy
Fresh Leads = New Client Potential According to a report published by the Content Marketing Institute (CMI), using a lead generation strategy is one of the top marketing approaches for 2017. Approximately 80% of B2B and 66% of B2C organizations surveyed by CMI put the employment of a lead generation strategy at the top of […]
7 Must-Haves for your Company Employee Handbook- for their Benefit and Yours
Why Have a Company Employee Handbook? All employers, no matter the company size, should have a company employee handbook to communicate essential policies of the company to employees. First, it can serve as a legal defense against claims brought by an employee against the company or its managers. Second, and perhaps more importantly, an employee […]