Small Business Tips

Small Business Tips

One of the biggest benefits of being an entrepreneur is the freedom to set your own hours and cultivate your own work style. You won’t have to battle commuter traffic to make it to the office at 8 every morning, and your work attire may... [more]

One of the biggest benefits of being an entrepreneur is the freedom to set your own hours and cultivate your own work style. You won’t have to battle commuter traffic to make it to the office at 8 every morning, and your work attire may become flannel pajama pants and a tank top.
Keep in mind that working for yourself requires possessing the self-discipline to work a full day without supervision. Starting your own business involves hard work, and you’ll probably be working far more than 40 hours a week.

Discover tips on how to make your small business work for you.

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As most business leaders have already realized, their business life is a continuously moving curve. Sometimes the business life curve goes up and sometimes the business life curve goes down. Some business leaders think that it is just fate and that we have no real control over what happens in our business lives, but they are wrong. It is all about your decisions, especially the ones that you make within your company, as a business leader, which will ultimately affect the real success of your business. And each of those business decisions can and will take you in many different directions, that will determine ... Read Full Story
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All successful business leaders have managed to develop a unique identity for themselves. An identity which really makes them noticeably in a crowd, an identity that is totally synonymous with who they are and what they represent. Business leaders like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, Jack Welch and Phil Knight. Most of us can bring to mind many other successful business leaders who have become truly famous because of their unique identity. An identity that is specific to you as a business leader is a pre-requisite for establishing yourself as a person to be respected and for you to ... Read Full Story
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Time pressure is something that we all experience in our workplaces in nearly everyday and it is generally looked upon as an unnecessary pressure along with all the other business challenges that we have to face. As a business leader, you will know that in our business lives, the time pressure often seems to result from external causes, from having too much work assigned, or from some real lack of clock time, or from the relentless flow of time itself. However, there is evidence to show that the feeling of time pressure depends on our perspective. There is an old adage: ‘A watched pot ... Read Full Story
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There are many times in any business organization, when just one factor can make a significant difference to the level of success that a company can achieve. And that factor can be right in front of your eyes. We all know the old adage, not being able to see the wood, because there are so many trees. Well, within your business, without you realizing it, you could be doing just that, not seeing the success opportunities for your own business because of all the other business challenges. But, challenges are nothing more than opportunities to succeed. Take a closer look at your business, are ... Read Full Story
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah & ADELAIDE, South Australia--( BUSINESS WIRE )--In a recent Citibank Investment Research and Analysis survey of workplace safety trends across a broad range of ASX-listed companies, Boart Longyear had the lowest reported Lost Time Incident Frequency Rate of all companies listed in 2008. Read Full Story
Biofuels Industry Drives Small BusinessReutersBy Jennifer Wang First off, tell me how the biodiesel industry--and Innovation Fuels in particular--benefits small business owners. We're a fuel provider, so if a business runs a commercial boiler or a back-up power generation system, or has a fleet of ...  
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Hosted IT: It's Big for Small BusinessSmall Business ComputingOver the past three years, small business adoption of hosted services has been growing at a fast pace. “Hosting among small businesses (1 to 99 employees) moved from 13 percent adoption in 2006 to 25 percent in 2008,” said Avinash Arun of AMI. ...  
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Small business owners gather to learn more about banks, loansMarconews, FLasked Pat Kirkpatrick, the vice president of lending for Regions Bank, to a crowd of small business owners gathered in East Naples on Wednesday. A few people in crowd raised their hands. The rest sat with crossed arms. It was the reaction Kirkpatrick ...  
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Minerich's small business makes a large impactJacksonville News, ALMinerich, who spoke at the Jacksonville Exchange Club on June 11, turned what started as a small business project into what is now Carmin Industries, a business that does water jet cutting and metal fabrication services. Minerich moved to Jacksonville ...  
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OSHA provides some guidelines on such inspections at osha.gov/Publications/small business/small-business.html. The bottom line is it's your responsibility to know what it takes to keep your employees safe, says Conneely, whose firm has assisted clients ...  
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If you know a small business we should visit, e-mail us at smallbusiness@seattlepi.com. Brian Lurie has noticed more of what he calls the "new poor" walk into the doors of his pawnshop in Kirkland. "We haven't seen this before," he said of the growing ...  
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Hamilton, the 2009 SBA North Carolina Minority Small Business Champion of the year, has dedicated 17 years to making sure the community moves toward creating parity for the minority community. Hamilton is president and CEO of the Carolinas Minority ...  
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