10 Steps for Sales Success

Successful sales people are often described as having been born that way. This is not necessarily true as the ability to charm does not guarantee a successful sales career. Many charismatic individuals have failed to produce favorable results when placed in a sales position. This is good news for entrepreneurs who find themselves having to be the company salesperson. For many, it is not a roll they are have not been trained for or have comfort with. Since getting new customers is crucial to business success companies must have a selling process in place.

3 Effective Tips For Business Expense Management In 2015

Too often, company owners looking to achieve a high rate of business growth are overly focused on revenue generation to a point where they start neglecting the importance of proactively managing business expenses.

Maintaining tight control over variable and other type of expenses is essential for reducing costs and maximizing profits in your corporation. To date, there is no 100% fool proof method for completely streamlining expense management for any business.

Business on the Move: Tips to Stay Productive and Mobile

Working away from the office is quickly outpacing the typical 9 to 5 job in an office. In fact, there’s a high chance the coming generations will only hear jokes about the 9 to 5 workday from older generations and old entertainment. Mobile business has made the world smaller and connected us much more globally. But with every advancement comes new problems as well. It’s important to know how to stay productive while on the move because while mobile business is a great way of keeping up, it can also slow you down if you’re not careful.

The Best Way to Ease the Burden of Tax Season: Keep Good Records

It’s tax season, which for many small business owners is a time of stress and anxiety and often reflection on what could have been done better. Almost always the answer is, “I could have kept better records”. As you sit fumbling through a year’s worth of receipts, or poring over online bank statements or cluttered spreadsheets it is easy to see that an effective record system would make tax season so much easier. And you aren’t alone. According to the Small Business Accounting Report, 33% of companies say that managing paperwork and record keeping is one of the biggest accounting challenges they face.

Six Smart Business Model Designs in Healthcare

Health care is slowly transforming into one of inclusivity for everyone, no matter their age, race, or gender. Little by little, new business models are showing us the possibilities of what health care can truly become. These advancements are some of the most successful in making healthcare work around the country.

How to Help Your Small Business Stand Out at a Trade Show

The cost of running and staffing a trade show booth can be significant for a small business, but the benefits of getting in front of prospective clients can be worth both the effort and expense. In order to maximize a trade show experience, small businesses need to have their booths stand out. Here’s how to plan accordingly and implement some basic strategies around running a successful trade show booth that draws traffic.

Are You and Your Employees Truly Safe at Work?

When was the last time you reviewed your office safety?

Office safety isn't just for those in businesses with obvious hazards such as construction. No matter what your business, keeping your office safe is vital not only for your employees' health and well-being, but for minimizing time lost due to accidents in the workplace.

How to Set up your Small Business Network

Business networks have gone a long way from a couple of desktop PCs and a humble file server. Unlike those 56kbps Internet connections, today business networks convey gigabytes of information via high-speed connections. The today’s networking hardware can do wonders for a small business, but also cause a lot of headache and malfunctioning if not installed properly. These tips are created as a short crash course in establishing a business computer network. 

What’s Next To Join the Sharing Economy?

As defined by Investopedia, the sharing economy is: “An economic model in which individuals are able to borrow or rent assets owned by someone else. The sharing economy model is most likely to be used when the price of a particular asset is high and the asset is not fully utilized all the time.” It is also sometimes known as peer-to-peer.

Three Tools For Retaining Millennials

Millennial workers often leave a position within a year, or shortly after a year has passed. Companies that lose parts of the workforce that quickly are at risk of losing nearly $5,000 per employee; so applying tools that speak to a younger generation can increase retention rates and employee satisfaction.

Use autonomous training

The Aberdeen Group reported seventy percent of workers choose to leave in the first year, and the majority of those cite poor employee training as a primary reason for leaving a position.

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