by | Nov 6, 2013 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Cost Cutting, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
If you lease an automobile and use it for your business 100 percent of the time, you can deduct the entire amount of your lease payments. Of course, if you only use the vehicle for business 80 percent of the time, then you can only deduct 80 percent of the...
by | Nov 4, 2013 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series
Advisory boards provide isolated small business owners with an affordable outside perspective. Boards replace trial and error with experience and knowledge. They act as sounding boards and boards of inquiry. They open needed doors...
by | Oct 10, 2013 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
Autopsies aren’t just for dead bodies. Your company’s hiring record will improve dramatically once you institute fire-and-quit autopsies. Doing an autopsy means taking the time to figure out what went wrong with your hiring and employment process...
by | Oct 8, 2013 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
Once the customer gives us their physical mailing address, what do we do with it? We are going to mail them our monthly customer newsletter. Why newsletters? In his book Stick Like Glue, Jim Palmer lists seven secrets about how newsletters will...
by | Oct 5, 2013 | Books, Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
The Fastest Way to Higher Profits by Jim Palmer This book will help you generate higher profits in your business—fast! In it he covers 19 proven insider marketing and business tips that will take your business to higher levels of...
by | Oct 2, 2013 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Sales & Marketing, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
Auto-responders are computer programs that automatically send out information to those prospects and customers on your email list. I use Constant Contact but MailChimp is another great program that I recommend. The auto-responder allows us to automatically send...