by | Sep 6, 2017 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
A recent Department of Labor statistic showed that the average American employee now changes jobs every 1.5 years. That constant turnover costs business owners valuable time and money. It takes time and money to interview, hire, and train new employees....
by | Sep 5, 2017 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Sales & Marketing, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
Many of my clients don’t have the money to do a large marketing campaign. So they simply do nothing and hope, or they rob Peter to pay Paul in order to do a radio, TV, or newspaper ad. They often forego paying their payroll taxes or vendors, hoping that...
by | Sep 4, 2017 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
I was asked recently, “What would you do differently if you were starting your business today?” It is a much harder question than you would think, because there is so much that I have learned about owning and operating a business that I did not know when I...
by | Aug 24, 2017 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Sales & Marketing, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
So what is it that the very best business owners do that makes them successful? The answer can be found in a paper released by Moya K. Mason earlier this year titled, What Causes Small Businesses to Prosper? In it, she writes, “What does matter, it turns out, is...
by | Aug 23, 2017 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Current Affairs, Sales & Marketing, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
The Real Reason Small Businesses Fail and Succeed One of the big advantages CPAs have working with small business owners is that we get to learn what makes them profitable and what makes them fail—without losing any of our own funds. Not only that, but we are...
by | Aug 8, 2017 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
“When should I hire a new employee?” is a question I get asked often, especially when a business owner is looking at hiring their very first employee. My answer is that there are really only two reasons to hire an employee: They do work that directly...
