Export-Import Bank Gives Confidence to Exporters
Selling in foreign markets has many upsides for a small business. Exporting can help you land new customers, uncover lucrative business opportunities, and compete with rivals from other countries. So...
View Article7 Signs Your Website Needs an Update
You know your business’s website is in trouble when you discover that your mobile users are exiting the site mere seconds after logging on. Worse, your most important keyword still isn’t showing up on...
View ArticleCleaning Up a Social Media Crisis
Entrepreneur Michael Diamant faced a potentially disastrous situation during a recent office move when the transition to new phone and e-mail systems caused some technical difficulties and a lag in...
View ArticleRecruiting Employees with Social Networking
Move over, Monster. This has been a breakout year for recruiting with social networking. More businesses than ever are using Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social networking methods to find top...
View Article10 Business-Building Activities for Unexpected Downtime
Stormy weather may have shut down your office, but that doesn’t mean your productivity has to skid to a halt. Quite the opposite: A day or two free of meetings, chatty office mates, and other in-office...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform Offers New Challenges, Opportunities for Small Businesses
Health insurance wasn’t part of the employee benefits package when FeeFighters.com, a Chicago-based comparison shopping website for credit card processing, launched in 2009. That all changed last March...
View ArticleHow to Minimize Employee Absences
Employee absences are more detrimental to your business than you might realize. They can cost businesses nearly 9 percent of payroll, according to a recent study. And when workers call in sick, the...
View ArticleHow to Handle Addiction in the Workplace
Be sure to also read Implementing an Employee Drug-Testing Program Your employee’s behavior seems strange, out of character. He’s started showing up late to work and seems unfocused and nervous while...
View ArticleHow to Double Your Sales in Three Years
Growing a business from sales of $2 million to $106 million in just six years — that’s the stuff of entrepreneurial dreams. It’s also exactly what Cameron Herold did from 2001 to 2007 during his tenure...
View ArticleMonitor Your Workers’ PCs — If You Dare
An employee copies top secret data and information onto a disc and gives it to a competitor. Someone downloads nonwork-related software just for fun during business hours, unwittingly unleashing a...
View Article5 Ways to Spot Bad Employees — Before They’re Hired
About a week after Brina Bujkovsky hired Chris*, the new shipping manager for her online personalized gifts company, she realized something was terribly wrong. Other employees became alarmed when they...
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