Starting your own small business can be an exciting and rewarding experience. Still, it’s essential to make sure you take the necessary legal steps to ensure its success. These steps include filing articles of incorporation or organization, purchasing insurance, and obtaining licenses and permits. Suppose you have already started the process for your small business. In that … [Read more...]
Emma Sturgis
Contributor
How to Impress During Lunch with Potential Business Partners
You have landed a lunch meeting with potential business partners. Congratulations—this could be a major step forward for your company. Now you must concern yourself with impressing the people you meet so they will want to partner with you. Below are some of the steps you should follow to have a good experience at a lunch meeting with potential business partners. Come with a … [Read more...]
3 Ways to Improve Your Company’s Books
One of the most important goals when running a business is to maintain close relationships with high-value clients. As a businessperson, you can effectively achieve this goal by using relationship management techniques. A good example of this is keeping books of business, which means a book or organized list of clients and customers that a business or person has. Popular … [Read more...]
4 Ways to Afford Technology Upgrades for Your Small Business
Knowing how important and convenient the latest technological advances are for your business, you likely want to keep up with the latest trends. However, new tech can be expensive, and it can also get expensive to maintain if you need a dedicated in-house IT employee to manage it all. This expense can be hard for small businesses to afford, but there are more affordable options … [Read more...]
Tighten Up Ship: 3 Unexpected Ways to Increase Sales
Savvy business owners will keep a close eye on product inventory, web visit stats, and customer reviews to monitor his or her company progress. When profits drop, the usual suspects are investigated first, including employees, products, and customer service. However, other factors can play a significant role in your business sales, or lack of. The following three aspects of … [Read more...]
Business Finances in a Twist? How to Re-Envision Your Financial Strategies
You started your business with great hope for the future in front of you, but somewhere along the line, it all went wrong. Your finances are a mess, and you might even be teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. What you need to do is reevaluate your business and its finances fast and make some serious changes if you want your business to survive. Here are some ways to re-envision … [Read more...]
