by | Nov 3, 2015 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Cash Flow, Sales & Marketing, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
By Stephanie Armendariz Every business is in the business of making money. No business owner ever says, I don’t need to make any more money. These 10 tips are guaranteed to help you make more money and run your business more smoothly and effectively. See...
by | Nov 2, 2015 | Sales & Marketing, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
Employee hiring is much more critical in a small business than in a large business simply because you don’t have the budget to carry “dead” weight. Every employee you add is expensive, and hiring a bad employee can seriously affect the financial success of a...
by | Oct 28, 2015 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Cash Flow, Cost Cutting, Sales & Marketing, Small Business Owners
Every business experiences a time where they need new customers but just don’t have the advertising budget. For this I recommend four things. First, get into today’s Yellow Pages. In the past it was key that you get your business into the Yellow Pages so...
by | Oct 26, 2015 | Income Taxes, Sales & Marketing, Small Business Owners, Surviving an IRS Audit Series
Nothing gets your blood pressure up like getting an IRS collection letter demanding money! So what should you do if you receive one? First—do not panic! The good news is that in my experience at least half of them are wrong. Many times the IRS...
by | Oct 23, 2015 | Accounting & Bookkeeping, Books, Income Taxes, Sales & Marketing, Small Business Owners, Tax Tip of The Week
The following was reported in the Kiplinger Tax Letter of March 2012: A couple who used their vehicles in their sole proprietorships found this out the hard way. Their logbooks were riddled with mistakes, questionable entries and other irregularities—so much so...
by | Oct 22, 2015 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Sales & Marketing, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
Almost every business fails to focus on the 20 percent of their business that generates 80 percent of their profits. The 80/20 rule is a universal truth in almost all the businesses that I have worked with over the last three decades. This is often referred to...
