Entrepreneur is defined as, “A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on financial risk to do so.”
Being an entrepreneur requires you to take risks in your personal and professional life by creating your own path. However, there are a number of resources that you should keep in your backpack as you travel into the wide blue yonder of online entrepreneurship. Read the full entry
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Synergy can be a powerful force to grow your business. Think about the ‘hot’ neighborhoods in your city — the chances are, there’s an up-and-coming district somewhere that was little more than an ignored a few years ago.
This doesn’t happen because one hip eatery moving into town. When a few more restaurants, art galleries or yoga studios open in the neighborhood, suddenly everyone’s business is booming. Read the full entry
Look out your window: if there’s a line of cranky employees outside waiting to punch a time clock before starting their shift it might be time to invest in attendance tracking software.
Using a time clock is the equivalent of asking your employees to yell “here” every morning as you dutifully check off their name in an attendance notebook similar to the one your second grade teacher used. Read the full entry
Thanks to modern technology, more and more business owners are running their business on the go. StartupDonut says, “Communications and computing technology mean many businesses can operate wherever there is a reliable internet connection.”
And, even if you work from a base office, it’s unavoidable that you will have to leave your office and hit the road – to meet with clients, run sales at a trade show, or inspect a vendor.
If you’re working on the go, you need to have everything in order – consider these 5 tips the next time you head out. Read the full entry
The time has come. You have started your own business, established a revenue stream, and forged for yourself a place within your industry. Now is the time to start hiring employees to help you increase your revenue and grow your business into a sustainable, successful company.
Hiring employees takes a lot of effort, but adding them to your business can bring on numerous benefits. Read the full entry
According to the 2010 census, 7.8 million US businesses are owned by women – a 44% increase over the last census. Women-owned businesses now comprise 30% of non-farm businesses, generating $1.2 trillion in annual revenues.
Many of those business owners got their start by taking advantage of grants designed specifically for women entrepreneurs.
If you are a woman in search of startup funds, look into the following grant programs.
Related: Looking to get a loan, as well? Work with one of our hand-picked vendors Read the full entry
As a small business owner, hiring your first employees can be a stressful thought – what kind of people do I want to work with? Who can I trust with my vulnerable new business? Where do I look? And though it will at first seem daunting, with a process in place, you can have a stress-free hiring experience that will lead your business to bigger and better things.
Related: Invest in recruiting software to make the process as organized as possible
1. Hire for Potential
As a new employer, you might want to instantly hire whoever has the best track-record to increase your chances of success. However, evidence of past success may not necessarily directly correlate with individual potential to grow with your company. When hiring your first employees, it’s important that you hire for enthusiasm and potential rather than simply judging on experience. Read the full entry
Chances are, you won’t walk into your office one day to find a giant flashing billboard over your desk telling you that your current payroll system is hopelessly outdated and you should consider joining the rest of us here in the 21st century by adopting much more efficient and accurate time and attendance software.
No, the reminders that it’s time for an upgrade to your old system might be a little more subtle. Like the fact that you break out in hives at the sight of the stack of time sheets on your desk. Or, the fact that you woke up in a cold sweat the other night because you couldn’t remember whether you gave Shirley from customer service her shift differential. Or that you give Bill from accounting the stink eye every time you see him because his 9′s look exactly like 4′s (or is it the other way around?) making it a bi-weekly struggle to translate his time card.
Of course, there are more practical signs that your business needs a time and attendance system — ones that have less to do with your sanity and more to do with efficiency and accuracy. Read on. Read the full entry
If you have trouble producing effective keywords or ad content for your business, the issue may be your unique selling proposition (USP), and the fact that you don’t have one.
Your business’s unique selling proposition is a clear statement that describes what your business does and why it is valuable to your customer.
It states why your business is different from – and more valuable than – your competitors, and explains why you are the best choice for your customer’s needs. Read the full entry
Businesses which want to take advantage of the latest technology while still saving money should consider migrating their call center to the cloud.
Unless your head’s been stuck in the metaphorical clouds, chances are you’ve heard a thing or two about The Cloud.
These days, anything with a digital footprint — music, photos, video, e-mail and whole software systems — are now hanging out in this much-buzzed-about binary brume.
Among the latest functions business owners should consider migrating to the cloud is call center software.
