Simple Rules of Good Customer Service

The consumer is king and in this day and age, your business cannot survive without being on the customer’s good side. For this reason, good customer service is a must as establishing customer loyalty can be the make or break factor in deciding whether your business...

Traits of Great Business Managers

A manager can be defined as a person who is responsible for controlling or administering all or part of a company or an organization. He is the one “in charge” of certain/all activities of a firm/organization. A great business manager is not just a term that can be...

Protecting Yourself From Identity Theft

Identity theft has become all too common, especially in a world where we’re using all kinds of technology that is not always as secure as it should be. Preventing identity theft is simply a matter of being careful with your papers, passwords, and information. Be...

5 Ways to Save Money on Your Business Insurance

Business insurance is a significant cost to any business, particularly so to small businesses. Small business insurance premiums are particularly high as they are seen as higher risk operations, and in fact usually go up by very high percentages as well. In order not...

How to Promote Your Small Business Online

Any business marketing plan is incomplete without an online marketing strategy. The Internet not only offers a profusion of marketing options available easily and cheaply, it also takes your message directly and unavoidably into a potential customer’s line of sight....

The Importance Of Budgeting

In the challenging modern economic climate, it is wise to budget to control your finances. In practice, there will be numerous instances when you spend too much cash out of boredom, impulse or simply because you received a new credit card in the mail with good credit...

Economic Outlook for 2013

Now that we have gone through the first quarter of 2013 we are starting to get a look as to how the economy is going to be throughout the rest of 2013. The budget remains the biggest problem affecting economic growth.  Part of the budget deficit is simply due to the...

Your Company and Obamacare

Like most small business owners you have your disagreements with Obamacare, but actually, medium size business owners have the most to fear. Beginning in 2014 Obamacare will fine companies that fail to provide health insurance to their employees.  Because small...

How to Live Within Your Means

Debt is becoming an all-too-common epidemic around the world. Just fifty years ago you would be hard-pressed to find anyone with any kind of interest-charging debt, but the rules have loosened and people became very reliant on cheap credit during the boom years. Even...