Keeping employees happy and engaged in their job during the winter months can be tough; longer days at the office, less sunshine and financial stresses can all play on an employees mind. With so many distractions such as office parties, shopping for presents, writing and sending Christmas cards and even Christmas romances; as the boss [...]
Whenever you hear about employee wellness programs, you typically hear about how wonderful they are and all the benefits that come with implementing one of these programs in your workplace. But employee wellness programs are not as beneficial or important as most people claim them to be, and disadvantages of these programs do exist. Before [...]
Running a business can be a difficult and stressful task. How do you help your startup to evolve into a big company? How to you address the needs of the market and provide a good service? There are hundreds of questions at the start of a new venture, and every day brings with it new [...]
Your employees are crucial to the success of your small business. Employee turnover is expensive, both financially and for organizational morale. When you lose top talent, it can seriously impact your ability to recruit and retain other talent. In the long run, this will make it substantially more difficult to remain competitive with other companies. [...]
In today’s hyper-competitive, globalized world, small businesses have to work even harder to grow and be profitable. Only through improvement can today’s small business hope to compete with the global giants appearing in almost every industry. The following are 10 virtually instant ways to improve your small business: Track those numbers. Tracking your company’s numbers [...]
“Love a Local Business” Intuits way of contributing to the economy. A grant program for small businesses to fund new jobs for their companies. Fab-U-Lous! The economy can use all the help it can get and thanks to Intuit they have added a lot to that endeavor. The release below has a nice synopsis of [...]
If you have ever started your own business or been a part of a business upstart, you are aware of the insanity involved in the process. Money is, of course, the issue and is heavily linked with finding customers. If the minutia of your new business venture goes to bed with you at night and [...]
A normal small business owner may think their biggest problem is coming from outside of his own business bubble, but he could be wrong! They have now discovered that employees play a bigger role in the vulnerabilities of a business. The release below is letting business owners know that they have some options in protecting [...]
We all know that businesses have to sell to survive, let alone prosper. Most businesses will have some sort of specialist sales function, but this could be a small percentage of the total number of employees. If non-sales people, who have contact with customers, could be trained to promote your services or products in an [...]