It is well known that successful small business owners must learn how to juggle the various demands of running a business. But these days that juggling act may extend to things like managing a mobile and geographically disparate workforce, coordinating multiple modes of communication, working with various forms of data, and doing it all in a prompt, personalized way. Continue reading
Now that the 2012 tax season is in full swing, it’s time to get the proverbial ball rolling with your business tax return preparations. If you want to maximize your return while holding on to as much of your precious time and money as you can, then make sure to check out these free tax resources for small business owners and the self-employed. Continue reading
As consumers become more attached to their smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices, ensuring that your website can be rendered on these devices has become a necessity. Even if you are operating on a tight budget, you can still build a great mobile website for your business. Here are 14 free tools to help make your website mobile-ready.
‘Tis the season for a hearty helping of small business trends 2012 posts and predictions. After reading several of them complete with their recommendations for what small businesses should focus on in the coming year, I was left wondering who they are targeting. What about the frugal entrepreneur? Continue reading
If you are the owner of a small business, chances are you’ve been receiving offers by credit card companies and their affiliates encouraging you to open a business credit account. Credit card usage is once again on the rise, and banks have much to gain by targeting the one category of credit cards that flew under the radar in the 2009 credit reform legislation. But before you push that business credit card offer aside, you might want to reconsider. Continue reading
One of the biggest misconceptions many new entrepreneurs and small business owners have when they set up shop online is that a popular site with a lot of traffic will yield big profits. Continue reading
Ever since Tim Ferriss’s 4-Hour Workweek began to grace business book shelves and populate e-readers, the act of hiring a virtual assistant to help carry out business tasks has acquired a certain allure. Hiring a VA can be a highly strategic and frugal business move, but only if you do it right. Make sure your efforts to save a few bucks and streamline your work process don’t end up costing you more in the long run. Continue reading
Along with the exciting parts of running a small business come a few headaches. One that might be particularly painful is your business accounting. Keeping the books for a business is like balancing your checkbook with ten times the frustration and about a hundred times the need for accuracy. Continue reading
While substance abuse among full and part time workers continues to rise, the majority of small business owners do not have a substance-abuse policy in place. Many do not realize that the potential costs of not having such a policy can easily bring a small business to its knees. Continue reading
Starting and running a business successfully often depends on accessing the right information and tools at the right time and knowing how use it all. Get your business started on the right foot with these resources for guidance, statistics, and other information specific to family-owned businesses. Continue reading
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