David Kiger — January 10, 2018 Follow @davidkiger — January 10, 2018 Shutterstock The promise of a new year can give us an opportunity for a fresh start. One way that small business owners can get on the right track for 2018 is to examine better ways to get organized. A 2016 survey by Office … Continue reading New Year, New Plan: It’s a Good Time for Small Business Owners to Tackle Office Organization
Ben Mulholland — January 10, 2018 — January 10, 2018 We’ve all heard about the importance of focusing on one task at a time. Take that idea, apply it to manufacturing, and you have the concept of one piece flow. The concept is simple in that you have to limit yourself to working on one … Continue reading How One Piece Flow Can Reduce Your Operations Time by 96%
The amount of time people spend watching an ad varies by context, but the ad’s value shouldn’t be considered proportional to its watch time, per Facebook. Tim Peterson on January 5, 2018 A video ad is a video ad is a video ad. Except it’s not, according to Facebook. The social network would argue … Continue reading How Facebook’s video ads’ watch time compares across formats
Eric Rosenberg — January 3, 2018 — January 3, 2018 stevepb / Pixabay Happy New Year! While you are working to nurse off that hangover or catch up on sleep, last year is over and it’s time to start thinking about one of two of life’s biggest guarantees: taxes. While you may not be as … Continue reading 5 Early Steps to Get Ready for Tax Time
Dusti Arab — December 31, 2017 — December 31, 2017 Stop me if you’re heard this one. Your business is growing – but you’re in a tight spot. You’re at that difficult but predictable point where you need more cashflow to create additional growth, but you’re so trapped in the day-to-day operations, you’re not sure … Continue reading Is It Time to Hire a Virtual Assistant?
Choncé Maddox — December 21, 2017 — December 21, 2017 cloudhoreca / Pixabay Sending invoices can be an exciting time because it means payday is nearly here. Yet and still, if you’re a freelancer, you know that doing admin work like sending invoices means more unpaid time on your end. Depending on how many clients … Continue reading How to Cut Your Invoicing Time in Half
Carol Stephen — December 20, 2017 Follow @Carol_Stephen — December 20, 2017 Social media is no longer an option for any sized business. And it’s not optional for people of any age range, either. Everyone and their grandma is on social media these days. So how do you create posts that are easy to share, … Continue reading How to Make the Most of Your Time on Social Media: 7 Easy Ways
John Oechsle — December 15, 2017 Follow @hjoech — December 15, 2017 With increased demand, traffic, customer interaction and sales (hopefully!) this holiday season comes a cascade of opportunity for invaluable customer information capture. This is a truly special time of year—and that holiday magic certainly extends to the small business world. Starting with Black … Continue reading This is the Time of Year for Small Business Customer Information Capture
Renzo Costarella — December 13, 2017 — December 13, 2017 JESHOOTS / Pixabay Time management is a skill that will pay dividends forever. If you don’t manage your time well it will seriously cost you in both your personal and professional life. The reason why time management is so important is because time is the … Continue reading Time Management Advice to Help You Get Ahead
Steve Masters — December 8, 2017 Follow @masterstips — December 8, 2017 geralt / Pixabay Ask anyone what Google is and the most likely answer will be that it’s a search engine, which is pretty hard to argue with. The tech giant’s most important platform is called Google Search, where people type in queries and … Continue reading It’s Time to Optimize for Google As a Recommendation Engine
