Most small business owners today are looking for ways to trim their operating costs. If you run your business in a commercial space, rent may be one of your biggest expenses. While it’s not impossible to negotiate a rent reduction, particularly in today’s market, it’s not an easy process. So if you have a little […]
Could your business use a genie to grant a special wish? Intuit could be your answer. All you have to do is make a wish between now and May 12 as part of the Love Your Local Business Contest. You can submit your wish via the website, then share your wish with your friends and […]
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan……Eleanor Roosevelt When I was an executive for a Fortune 100 company, writing the annual strategic plan was one of my job responsibilities. The plan was a five year growth projection for our company and was used to benchmark our success. Having started off […]
Emails — can’t live with them and can’t live without them. Email is the primary form of business communication today. On average, we spend about 28 percent of our work day managing emails and the majority of them are unnecessary. The typical worker gets approximately 147 emails per day. (I get far more than that!) Of those emails, 48 percent get deleted which takes about 3.2 seconds each — that’s four minutes a day — 20 minutes a week of basically wasted time.
Most small business owners launch their companies because they are really good at delivering a particular product or service and they love doing it. Sadly, the majority aren’t equally as talented at managing the financial aspects of their businesses. Building a successful business requires more financial management than adding up your sales, subtracting the expenses and hoping there’s a little left over.