Business Management
Learn all the ways you can take your business to the next level, whether you're in year one or year 10. Get advice on how to run and grow your business-and even what to do when you're ready to move on.
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Do You Need to Update Your Business Insurance When Working from Home?
Making sure your business is protected should be a top action item.
· 3 min read
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Should You Transition Your Business from Retail to Wholesale Sales?
Struggling brick-and-mortar retailers are working quickly to shift their business models to e-commerce and other options like wholesale sales.
· 3 min read
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Tips for Hiring a Diverse Workforce
Ethnically diverse teams are good for your company culture and can benefit your bottom line. Attracting and retaining a more diverse workforce starts with a thoughtful diversity, equity, and inclusion plan.
· 3 min read
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How Small Business Are Preparing for a Potential Second COVID-19 Shutdown
Take stock of what you've learned from the first coronavirus shutdown to help prevent problems and surprises during future crises.
· 4 min read
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The Importance of Customer Service During the Coronavirus
In the time of coronavirus, good customer service is crucial to maintain existing customers and gain new ones. Don't let your business be a casualty of the pandemic.
· 4 min read
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Office Pools: Are They Legal?
The best advice for office pools is to keep betting 'in': informal, infrequent and insignificant. That way you won't invite unwanted guests, a category that includes the police and people that you know can't pay up.
· 4 min read
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5 Ways to Go Green at Your Office
'Going green' is more than just a cultural buzzword, the effects can dramatically change your company's culture, and perhaps more importantly, your company's bottom line.
· 2 min read
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Tax Breaks for Home-Based Businesses Go Unclaimed
Many entrepreneurs who run businesses out of their homes don't take advantage of possible tax breaks.
· 3 min read
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The Problem with Partnerships
Are you thinking of forming a business venture, but don't know where to begin? Forming a company can be confusing—do you go at it alone as a sole proprietor, take on shareholders in a corporation, or bring on a partner and form a partnership?
· 3 min read
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Corporate Accountability: A Summary of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Securities laws like Sarbanes-Oxley are complicated and confusing. But failing to follow the act's new restrictions and procedures can be even worse.
· 2 min read