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Saving on Office Space for Your Business
Office space can be a big part of owning your own business. It can be a pretty big expense, too… And of course, the past two years might have changed how you do business in that office – a lot. Maybe you have more people working from home. Maybe you’ve had to lay...
Businesses: Here’s How to Deal with Negative Reviews
With all of the extra year-end bookkeeping and tax matters your business is trying to tackle right now, a social media storm is the last thing you need/want to deal with. But it's sadly the sort of thing that will not go away by itself. And how to deal with...
Financial Planning: One of the Best Employee Benefits Businesses Can Offer
This past weekend’s NFL playoff games were maybe some of the best post-season games to watch in a long, long time… with some of the most unexpected outcomes. Who would have believed that all but one of the top teams from the regular season would be unseated from a...
Getting Started with Metrics and KPIs in Your Business
Your car dashboard tells you how far you’ve driven and how much gas is left in the tank. Your smartphone has a button to tell you how much space you’ve got left after taking all those pictures of the kids. Your bank’s all too happy to show you a report on how your...
Masterpiece Accounting Services on Managing Small Business Loan Options
The big, emergency SBA loan programs for small businesses (like yours) that were launched (PPP) and expanded (EIDL) over the last couple of years are moving back from the radar or wrapping up.That said, there are still great options for funding your business.Including...
Worker Classification Steps for Businesses in 2022
And the books turn over.As we step over the threshold into 2022, we're all staring at much lower numbers in our P/L's. It's a new slate, and the possibilities are endless.What will you do in 2022? That's the question of the hour ... and it has much less to do with...
Your Business Better Have Learned These Small Business Tips…
A new year is fast approaching. Many businesses are eager to turn the page on the past year – and its economic fallout.And of course we’ve been writing about how to navigate it.Today, let's reach for some small business tips you should be taking away from this...
Innovation and Design Thinking
Duggan (2013) declares that Creative Strategy is not about coming up with new ideas, but about thinking strategically when finding a solution to a problem by seeking new ways or innovative ideas to apply toward such solution. He mentions two ways of coming up with...
Innovation Killers
What is Innovation Innovation is associated with creative thinking, applied imagination. Innovation involves five skills: associating, questioning, observing, experimenting and networking. According to Drucker (2011), “innovation is a function of entrepreneurship (p....