Building and maintaining a strong credit profile for your small business can help you get access to funding, therefore important resources. Just like personal credit, your business credit rating is affected by a number of different factors. Understanding these factors and taking the time to monitor and build your credit [...]
Marketing materials emphasize your brand and pre-sell your prospects. If you have a limited budget for your marketing, or just want to get the biggest bang for your marketing buck, there are four pieces of marketing collateral that you should focus on. These choices are low-cost and high-impact. They’ll create [...]
Many marketing tools and sales techniques exist to help business sell to the public. But the general public buys differently than business, so you must use different strategies to be successful. There are several keys to connecting with B2B prospects combining Internet technology and basic marketing principles: Help your customers [...]
Productivity is a major concern in the modern workplace. Without this efficiency, your business will stagnate and lose its competitiveness. But, productivity doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Satisfied employees are more likely to be productive, so you need to hire people who are a perfect match for the job and [...]
No matter what the size or age of your business, you need a business plan to stay organized. A business plan is a collection of documents that detail the current state of your business and your plans for future growth. Most often businesses will develop a business plan in order [...]
Every business has a different cycle based on industry, size, and other factors, but when it comes to paying taxes, there are a lot of common requirements and issues that small to medium-size businesses face each year. We recently finished a very busy tax season, and afterwards, many business owners suffered from something I [...]
A sports coach pushes an athlete to achieve optimum performance, provides support when exhausted, and teaches the athlete to execute plays that the competition does not anticipate. A sporting coach will have you run more laps than you feel like. A sporting coach will tell it like it is. And, a [...]
Many of my clients have inquired recently about the Use Tax letters they have been receiving from the California State Board of Equalization. They want to know what is and how should they respond. What is the California Use Tax? In recent years, more and more purchases of all kinds by businesses and individuals are [...]
