Is Your Accountant Proactive or Reactive? Does your Accounting and Tax Firm offer you advice before it happens or late or not at all? Do they offer value added services that help your business improve and grow or do they just process your work? Are they constantly looking for legitimate but creative ways to minimize your taxes or do they … Read More
A Recipe for a Successful Small Business
Since its inception, the United States has always been considered “the land of opportunity” – a place where any individual with motivation and drive can have a successful small business. This notion still holds true today as 99 percent of all American companies are small businesses, according to Small Business Administration. But this doesn’t mean being an entrepreneur or running … Read More
A Simple Trick For Keeping Good Team Members
Finding good staff members is consistently in the top three priorities for small business owners. It seems that business owners will tell you that this problem is worse in their country than any other. Clearly that can’t be true, but it gives an indication of how serious the problem is. Having hired, fired, been amazed by, and let down by … Read More
Positive Thinking in the Workplace
Do your co-workers ever feel upset or angry in the workplace? Let’s look at the kind of feelings that can impact your work negatively and what kind of mental exercises can help you work around those feelings to keep your positive thinking alive. Recognize those bad feelings What may be lurking and … Read More
The Power of a Positive Outlook
Nothing mirrors your quality of life more than your thinking. By deciding to take a positive outlook on life, one can begin to discard a negative frame of mind and view life more positively, with the anticipation of opportunities and challenges ahead, instead of dwelling on barriers in life. Positive thinking is a mental and emotional attitude. With a positive … Read More
The Trinity of Management
The Trinity of Management is a simplified concept of basic business management. Coined and trademarked by Ernesto Sirolli, it makes it relatively easy to get across the basics of business by creating a framework in which we can start the work of building a solid new business or expanding an existing business. There are many ways that have been used throughout … Read More
4 Ways to Scale Your Service Business
Owning a service business can be tough, and running a service business day-in and day-out can be even tougher. For many service business owners, building a service business stopped being fun a long time ago and somehow it mutated into a “job.” Here are 4 tips to help you scale your service business and get your life back. 1. Recognize you’re in … Read More
Five Tips on How To Find the Right Accountant
If you’re thinking about hiring an accountant, you’ve probably discovered that you may need one for more than just crunching numbers. Today, many accountants strive to serve as small business financial advisors. Many of them want to be there for you at every stage of your business’s growth. Helping to write your business plan, reviewing your inventory, looking for ways to … Read More
How To Build a High-Performance Business
Building a high-performance organization means successfully outperforming one’s competitors for the long haul. But…how exactly is this done? If you start by looking at key characteristics of high-performing organizations, a blueprint for achieving long-term success emerges. This can be mapped out in five steps, along with some commons traps to avoid. Step One: Ensure the organization understands and leverages its … Read More
Falling In Love With Your Small Business All Over Again
It’s the middle of summer, and you’re stuck behind the desk at your small business — working and sweating. Your friends’ Facebook feeds are filled with pictures of them happily enjoying a drink on some beach. It’s no wonder you’ve lost that loving feeling for your own business. Falling out of love with your small business can happen at any time, not just … Read More