5 tips to work more effectively
Most business owners feel like they could work more productively throughout their work day. By implementing strategies to help you work more effectively, your business revenues should improve over time.
Here are 5 tips to help you to work more effectively and productively throughout the day:
Automate Your Systems
Automation is the key for many businesses success. Simple [...]
5 Ways to Handle Bad Debts
Debt Affects Everyone
More and more families are saddled with debt nowadays. The average American family is in debt to the tune of $12,000, the average UK family to around £8,800 sans mortgage. Even students are getting affected, with those attending various courses having debts ranging from $8,000 to over $20,000. Businessmen are in no way [...]
Employee Feedback: Listen and Learn
Employers have come to realise that one of the best things they can do for their business is to get feedback from their own people. While listening to customers’ suggestions and complaints is important, soliciting the input and ideas of employees can be priceless.
What You Learn from Listening
Your employees are your “contact people” as they [...]
Firing employees: The right way and the wrong way
It’s very common nowadays for managers to resort to extreme measures such as firing employees just so the business or company can stay afloat. Then there is the other, more common reason for firing an employee. That is, when an employee has become a non-performing asset, a liability so to speak, he or she is [...]
Storefront: Does you store persona say “come in” or “get lost”?
It goes without saying that an effective storefront calls out to potential customers and invites them to look at the merchandise. No matter how great your items are, if your storefront doesn’t attract passers-by, you will have a hard time encouraging walk-in customers who actually contribute a large part of your sales income.
Have you ever [...]
5 Tips for picking the best business partner
The success behind any business lies mainly on three things: your product or service, its affordability and you (or the people) who run it. Make just one of these components mediocre and your business and everything for which you’ve worked hard will go down the drain.
Therefore, once you have an excellent product or service idea, [...]
You can’t send a duck to eagle school
For any small business owners out there who need a little inspiration when recruiting the right calibre of staff, this short movie may help you.
http://www.eagleschoolmovie.com/
10 things to do BEFORE you start your business
From the start of your business, you’re in a race against time. Your hard earned money will essentially become like the sands of time, trickling down into a void of nothingness from which your business must rise above within a short period of time. To help you cope for the initial race with time, here [...]
Growing Your Business: Top Five Tasks You Must Perform
In the world of business, nothing but change is constant – and change is the means by which the Darwinian process selects the businesses that are likely to survive. Thus, for entrepreneurs, a stagnant business is almost always a dead business.
So what are the top five tasks that you must perform to grow your business [...]
How Skype has changed the way we communicate
Communication is the act of transmitting thoughts, opinions, ideas, and information (the message) from one person (the communicator) to another (the receiver). It is a process that requires a medium.
Traditional communication medium
Traditionally, business management communicated with employees through written memoranda. The boss would dictate or type the message, make copies of the memo and distribute [...]
