4 Things Businesses Can Learn From Sports

We envy famous athletes and executives. The adjectives to describe Michael Jordancan describe Michael Dell; powerful, competitive and world-class. For us, sports is a recreational activity to alleviate work stress. However, if you apply the lessons learned from...

The 5 Worst Pieces of Advice for Small Business Owners

When you’re starting a business, there’s no shortage of people eager to hand out advice. It seems that everyone, even someone you’ve just met, has an opinion on how you should be developing your product, running your marketing, handling your finances and much more....

Your Business Needs a Local Search Listing

Without a local business listing on a search engine, small businesses are missing out on potential customers. That means a lot of small businesses are missing out on sales. A December 2014 report compiled by data analytics company Oxera, on behalf of...

The Small Business Guide to Invoicing and Getting Paid

One of the most stressful times for most small business owners is when cash flow becomes tight because payments are not coming in from customers. Not necessarily that your business hasn’t been moving along smoothly, but because your customers aren’t paying in a timely...

5 Things You May not Know about Small Business Taxes

Dealing with taxes is a fact of life for small business owners. Annual expenditures for taxes for most owners is likely their largest outlay each year, exceeding rent or mortgage payments, marketing costs, and vehicle expenses (the only possible larger expenditure is...