How to Conduct an Employee Performance Review
Part of running any successful business is conducting an employee performance review. These reviews benefit both the company and the employees and can help determine pay increases or reductions.
Business Start Up Funding
Look for creative business start up funding alternatives. Funding a business doesn’t always mean seeking a start up business loan.
Business and Ideas for Starting or Buying
This article on is on getting into business and ideas on whether it is better to start a business, buy a business, or acquire a franchise business opportunity. My article on finding profitable business opportunities goes into much more depth.
Business and Ideas for Marketing
Here is a marketing business idea list for finding new customers. Whether starting a new business or trying to survive in a down economy, finding new customers is vital to your business.
Small Business Funding: Three Tips for Getting Your Hands On It
Finding - then obtaining - small business funding to start or grow a business can be confusing. Interest rates continue to be amazingly low…
Heuristics: 5 Tips for Better Decision Making
Heuristics influences marketing, management, software development, and decision-making. It contributes to algorithms and that pesky way that Amazon always "knows" what you want.
Laying the Foundation for Value, Part 2
This is the second in a series devoted to building business on value and redesigning your business to maximize customer perceived value.
Choosing a Small Business Coach: Do's & Don'ts
The right Small Business Coach can challenge you to set and achieve bigger goals in 2012, while helping you navigate the obstacles.
Consider Credit Unions for Small Business Financing
The increasing importance of credit union financing in small business operations and lending has recently been the topic of an SBA Advocacy report.
Four Tips for Breathing Life into Your Website
Is your website an empty grave? Is there any life to it? This is not just a question of content and design; you need to find out if top search engines can find your site. If search engines cannot locate you, your site is dead in the water.
Tips for a Successful Family Business: Yours, Mine, or Ours
Running any business is tough enough, but involving family members can make it even more challenging. Unfortunately, if family members are drawn in…
Managing Human Capital in the Cloud
If you are looking for an alternative to your current HR data management software, workday.com just might be the answer.
Laying the Foundation for Value, Part I
Ever tried to define the value that you offer your customers? A price is the dollar sign on a product, the tag on the item for sale, but that is not the same as value.
Small Business Optimism on the Rise?
Optimism about the economy is on the upswing, according to recent surveys. Big indexes are reading well - with high holiday sales, record cyber sales, and reduced unemployment.
Tips for Interviewing for Dependability
Are dependable employees myth or legend? Small business owners tell me that they are desperate for dependable employees.
Khan Academy: An Education in Finance
The Khan Academy is a non-profit organization with a mission to bring free world-class education to anyone anywhere in the world.
Five Tips to Build Customer Loyalty
Creating loyalty doesn't have to be difficult. It just takes good common sense. But. it also requires you to build a culture of service - at your virtual and real world sales counter.
Small Business Giving Builds Community
When the economy is tight, it's not easy for small businesses to give back to their communities.
Creative Leverage vs. Debt
Creative leverage can mean profits while debt - what some might call "leverage" - increases small business risk significantly.
Pay Attention to your Personality Index
We all know the "personality" who constantly seems to get in his or her own way. Short-tempered and shortsighted…