Category Archive for: ‘Business Essentials’
Six Common Mistakes When Choosing a Business Location
When entrepreneurs are thinking about a specific location for their business, they often underestimate all the research that involves the process of choosing.
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If You Don’t Have Time, Your Competitor Does
Having no time knowing what is going on in the community – where your industry is going, what the government is doing for small businesses in your area, what the latest technology is and how it is affecting your industry – is the most common mistake small business owners make.
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Put Cybersecurity at the Top of your To-Do List
As if you don’t have enough things to think about while running your own business – ever increasing competition for customers and employees, managing bills and cash flow, learning all the ins and outs of social media marketing and which human resource laws and regulations you need to pay attention to and which ones you don’t – then along comes cybersecurity and data breaches!
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Why a Baseball Coach Might Be Better at Running Your Business Than You
Imagine for a moment that you are at a baseball game. As the game is about to start, the head coach/manager of your team goes to the umpire and requests the scoreboard to be turned off for the entire game. The manager also requests the umpire not to announce whether a pitch is a ball, strike or if a runner is out. The manager has decided he will simply watch the game until the end, and then ask for the scoreboard to be relit so he can see the final outcome.
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Five Rules of the Insurance Game
Insurance has been around for a long time. Two thousand years ago, the Greeks and Romans had a form of cargo insurance. In the early 1700s, Lloyds of London became known for its maritime insurance. In 1752, Benjamin Franklin brought property insurance to America. The […]
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Cybersecurity a Growing Business Issue
What is Cybersecurity? Cybersecurity is a big scary unknown term to most small business owners, but an issue that could cost the company embarrassment, legal issues and significant monetary costs. Cybersecurity is the in place policies, procedures and training used to protect all of the […]
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