Marketing & Selling Tip of the Week – How the Online Servers and a Smartphone Can Save Your Caboose!

by | Jul 28, 2010 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Current Affairs, Sales & Marketing, Small Business Owners, Web/Tech

We’ve all been in a situation where we are talking to someone and all of a sudden we realize, “Hey this can be a potential sale!” If you’re at a social gathering, you didn’t bring your sales material and your chances of picking up a new client just flew out the...

Tax Tip of the Week – Visit the IRS Website!!

by | Apr 30, 2010 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Cost Cutting, Current Affairs, Income Taxes, Other, Small Business Owners, Tax Tip of The Week, Web/Tech

You may not know this, but the IRS has a website! www.IRS.gov has a lot of useful information and features. You can check the status of your refund, get most IRS forms, and apply for an EIN and payment plans. It also has access to publications that relate to business...

Marketing Tip of the Week – You can’t turn a Pinto into a Lexus! So, why try to turn your employees into something they’re not?

by | Apr 30, 2010 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Other, Sales & Marketing, Small Business Owners

   This weekly blog isn’t just about marketing but about how to better manage your staff. Many times I see business owners struggle with training their staff and not understand why one person can do so well at one thing while others struggle. Simple...

Marketing & Selling Tip of the Week – Just Because You Are Out of School, Doesn’t Mean You Don’t have Homework!

by | Mar 24, 2010 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Sales & Marketing

Homework, you think, “I’m out of school and I am done.” Think again! A good salesperson will not just research their products, they will research their prospects. Think of how impressed a potential customer will be when you show them that you have shown an interest in...

Marketing & Selling Tip of the Week – Save Big with Co-Op Advertising!

by | Feb 13, 2010 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Cost Cutting, Sales & Marketing

Many business owner don’t know that there is free money out there to help pay for advertising. Often times, most of your suppliers will offer to pay a percentage of your advertising bill if you mention their brand in your advertisement. You will have to check with...

Business Success Series – Part 2 Successful Business Owners Know Their Numbers!

by | Feb 3, 2010 | Accounting & Bookkeeping, Books, Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Cash Flow, Small Business Owners

Nothing is interesting if you’re not interested. – Helen Macinnes And, about the last thing most business owners are interested in is spending some quality time with their accounting records. In fact, I often joke that all business owners have ADD. They have so many...