Posts by Global Resources
Let’s Keep Your Remote Team Intact
By Working with a remote team is not as easy as it seems. There are times when your colleagues will be out of the office or even in a different time zone. Regardless of their location, however, keeping up with colleagues doesn’t have to be overly difficult. It just takes a little time and patience.
In assembling your remote team, there are some great software programs and apps to help make the process that much easier. Let’s take a look at the latest tech to keep your remote team in touch and up-to-date.
G-Suite
There is no doubt that it takes …
Quit Your Day Job and Live Your Startup Dream Today!
Sure, starting a business is certainly a risky move. To make matters dicier, leaving a stable job makes the decision that much more difficult. Having said that, with a burning passion and an entrepreneurial spirit, you can find the courage to take the chance.
Before you quit your day job, however, consider reviewing the following five steps in order to properly pursue your entrepreneurial dream.
Start a Side Hustle First
Actively pursuing your side hustle will better prepare yourself to fully commit to a startup venture. There is no doubt that having that entrepreneurial experience while still working a day …
Cut Those Costs Today!
As a small business, you likely don’t have the same resources as bigger companies. As research shows, 70% of new businesses fail. Sad, right?
Regardless of how creative, hard-working, and intelligent a business owner is, a business will fail if there isn’t the proper amount of capital available. Thus, many small business owners behave in the same ways: chasing after investors, believing that’s the only way they can get extra money for business essentials.
Having said that, one of the biggest mistakes a business owner can make in the beginning is not using the right money-saving strategies. Let’s examine five …
Dominate SEO With These Awesome Tools
You may be surprised to learn that you don’t need to be an expert digital marketer to fully optimize your website for search engines. So long as the right tools are in your SEO kit, virtually anyone can learn to handle their SEO and research for keywords.
Let’s take a look at some proven tools to optimize your blog posts for SEO, examine your competition, find competitive keywords, and plenty more.
Yoast SEO
Optimizing a website for search engines like Google and Bing requires covering a lot of areas, such as writing meta descriptions, integrating keywords, and creating XML sitemaps. …
“Not Now!”
“As soon as I finish this, we’ll address that issue.”
“I’ll do that tomorrow.”
I haven’t decided yet.”
“That can wait.”
“I’ll get to it when I can.”
“If I only had more time…”
Have you ever caught yourself using one of these excuses? Or heard your boss use them with you or a colleague? If you answered yes, you are not alone. We are all guilty to varying degrees of this common, but costly practice of putting things off. Everyone procrastinates at one time or another. When a particular task seems unpleasant or undesirable, we tend to put it …
Get A Piece Of The Government Business Pie
Previously, I wrote about various ways to leverage the US Small Business Administration and its many services and funding options. In this third and final article about the SBA, I want to focus on the programs that are in place for minorities.
On its Web site, the SBA states that, “The SBA is a strong advocate of minority and special audiences. Whether you’re looking for information on programs and services in support of women entrepreneurs, veteran’s business development, Native Americans, special minority programs including HUBZone, Small Disadvantaged Business Certification and 8(a) business development, you’ll find it here. Additionally, we’ve devoted …
Your Top Resource – Your Employees!
A business owner must identify and solve issues regarding the competition for customers and clients on a daily basis. As a business owner, are you overlooking the competition for one of your top resources—your own employees?
Today’s business owners and managers have a mindset that is much different from those of previous generations. Simply put, they expect more from their employers—especially when it comes to compensation and work culture. Employers who want to find and keep qualified, motivated, top-performing employees need to re-evaluate their compensation packages.
Salary is obviously important, but it is far from the end of the analysis. …
12 Ways To Increase Company Value
have combined what I personally consider to be the top 12 ways a business owner can increase the value of their most valuable asset—their business. A wide array of tips are outlined, so choose one or employ them all. No matter what your reasons for desiring the increase, application of these tips is not only great for your company’s value…its just good business sense.
Diversify Your Revenue and Profits: Maintain multiple profit centers and keep a diversified product/service base to diversify your profits. This is also known as analyzing your company’s revenue sources for risk. A concentration of revenue in …
Boots Are Made For Walking…Your Employees Shouldn’t Be
How to lower turnover to increase your profits.
In order to increase your profits, you must know the “costs” of turnover. Unfortunately, I can almost guarantee that your QuickBooks, Peachtree or any other accounting system does not readily produce this information. The cost of turnover is substantially higher than your recruiting costs. In addition to the recruiting and interviewing costs, you have the training time, lost productivity associated with a new employee, etc. Depending upon the type of position being replaced, it is estimated that turnover will cost you 65 percent to several hundred percent of the beginning annual compensation. …
You Can’t Handle The Truth
What you tell your CPA can be used against you.
Can you confide in your CPA? Are your conversations about your business protected? In reality, the law affords those conversations about as much protection as an umbrella in a hurricane. There is a privilege for federal tax preparers that applies to memos, opinions or other documents pertaining to your actual or potential tax liability, but the privilege does not apply to any work papers used to prepare the tax return. Your CPA may also be forced to reveal his knowledge in matters involving state, local or any jurisdiction other than …
