Business Checks Improving Life for Businesses

For businesses today, business checks are considered one of life’s conveniences, as are paper clips or staplers. No one stops to think about the ingenuity of the concept of business checks. However, business checks were not always in existence, and before they made...

Working to Repair Damaged Credit

More and more people, these days, are suffering with bad credit. While it’s really simple to damage your credit, it can be extra difficult to rebuild it. Once you have a negative mark on your credit report, it can take years to make it go away. Yet, in a world where...

7 Steps to Starting a Small Business

How many people are fortunate enough to say they do what they love? Is their work their passion? Do they work for themselves? Scores of people in dead end-jobs spend their days at their desks fantasizing about opening a cozy little bakery café, a microbrewery, an...

4 success secrets for small business sustainability

Companies typically implement sustainability programs because they want to improve company culture, encourage employees to contribute to positive change and increase profitability by reducing costs. Yet even when the commitment is there, implementation can be...

12 Business Leadership Lessons From Scout Law

Every week, you can find thousands of boys and young men across the nation attending their local Boy Scout meeting, learning the values and skills every good American man should know. With former Boy Scouts everywhere in today’s business world, it’s no wonder that...

Tell It to Uncle Sam: 5 IRS Reports You Have to Make

It seems that the government wants to know everything you do – and you’re required to self-report it. If you don’t, you may be liable for penalties (and they usually aren’t even tax deductible). So don’t overlook these reports below.   1. Workplace Injuries...

People Lie More When Texting

Sending a text message leads people to lie more often than in other forms of communication, according to new research. David Xu, assistant professor in the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University, is the lead author of a new research paper that...

20 Local Marketing Ideas That Work

Engaged People: 1. Giving out free, informative pamphlets This can be a pro-active way to engage new customers. Try to resist making them too sales-focused and get people onside by including genuinely useful content, such as recipes or top tips related to your product...

How Waiters Read Your Table

What looks like a convivial scene is a waiter’s nightmare: people at a table, chatting away, menus closed with drinks in their hands. Yet when Alex Martin, a 26-year-old waiter at Blue Smoke restaurant in New York, tried to take their order “they...

5 Small Business Tax Breaks You Might Overlook

If you are like most small businesses in the United States you wear a lot of hats when it comes to your company operations.  As a small business owner, you also have the least room for error. Most small businesses and especially new businesses don’t have the...