Is Your Business Set To Compete?

Building a successful business is all about realising where you are looking to place your own organization and understanding the challenges that you will face. Few successful businesses manage to thrive, without considering the threat posed by rivals.

When you are operating your own small business, you may also wish to ponder this fact. If successful companies dedicate time to considering the wider business environment, then should you be doing the same? There are a number of standard answers to this question and it may be worth thinking about each of them in turn.

Starting A Small Business Is So Much Easier Today

Compared to a decade ago, starting a small business today has never been this easier. Although some may continue to argue that the level of success in business startups regardless of its size is always questionable, still a lot of seasoned entrepreneurs agree that the current environment is more favorable for business growth.

Would the World be a Better Place Without Google and SEO?

So the answer to this question doesn’t really matter because we all know search engines aren’t going anywhere, but it’s fun to contemplate. SEO and catering to Google is becoming such a large part of running a company—and entire department in fact—that it’s easy to stop and wonder why. Is Google really doing more harm than good?

Streamline Your Social Networking: 4 Social Media Management Tools to Help You Save Time While Keeping Up With Your Social Marketing

As if you already didn’t have enough going on — keeping your small business afloat — friends and other business owners are probably telling you that keeping up with social media is essential to boosting your business. And it is, but when do you have the time to keep up with all the platforms that consumers expect to find you on?

Don’t Let Energy Bills Drain Your Small Business

If you could save money in any aspect of your small business, where would it be?

There is a good chance that you do not always think about the savings that could be had from being an energy-efficient small business, yet there are savings there to be made.

So How Does a Small Business's Fan Page Get Noticed Anyway?

If you're one of the billion users of Facebook, you may have noticed that you tend to see posts from some people or pages more often than others. For example, I Liked the Mark Twain fan page because I'm a huge Huck Finn fan and see posts about upcoming events or new images on my Newsfeed all of the time. However, in my Likes, you'll also see a pizza place upstate that makes a great tomato pie; I go there every time I'm travelling that way. For some reason, they never make my Newsfeed even though I discovered that they post just as often as the Mark Twain fan page. 

How Barcode Technology Benefits SMBs

First used to label train cars, barcodes have made great strides in the last few decades. Today, barcodes are completely integrated into mainstream life. Consider how many barcodes you see a day. Nearly every product in a grocery, department or mass merchandise store bears a UPC barcode. This is due to the fact barcode technology helps regulate processes, increases data input, decreases mistakes and user-error, and in turn, helps promote financial growth and time management.

ICD-10 Implementation: What Can the US Learn from the UK?

ICD-10 is the abbreviated way to refer to the tenth revision of the International Statistical Classification and Diseases and Related Health Problems. In other words, ICD-10 is an internationally accepted way of classifying and documenting diseases.

While practices in the UK have been using ICD-10 for medical coding since at least 2000, the transition from ICD-9 (the last version of the coding standard) to ICD-10 is taking a little longer in the United States. American hospitals and clinics have until October 1, 2014 to make the change, and according to recent surveys, many American medical providers are feeling the pressure of the looming deadline.

How to Price Your Services for Maximum Profits

It can be a challenge to determine how much to charge for your products and services. You need to charge enough to cover your costs and consistently generate a profit, but you don't want to scare your prospects away. Pricing doesn't have to be a struggle. Follow these tips to price your services for maximum profits.

Home Sweet Home: Bringing the Office to the Home

I think there’s a general consensus that breakfast in bed is one of life’s many pleasures. Coming in a close second is having breakfast delivered to you in bed and then walking down the hall to your office – without having to change out of what you slept in.

Working from home has become increasingly popular in today’s business world. If you do it right, the home office can do wonders for your business.

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