by becky | Jun 11, 2015 | Marketing & Advertising, Uncategorized
If you need cash fast, there’s nothing like having a sale to increase your bank account quickly. Here are ten excuses you can use to tell your customers you’re having a sale. It’s Your Birthday (or Your Business’s Birthday) We all feel generous on our birthday, so...
by becky | May 28, 2015 | Employment & Payroll, Time Management, Uncategorized
Do you have employees who need to work together as a team? Or perhaps you need to work as a team with your customers and vendors. When people of different backgrounds get together for a common goal, there are often four stages they go through before they become a...
by becky | May 14, 2015 | Accounting, Uncategorized
A great way to speed up your cash flow is to get paid faster by customers who owe you money. One way to do that is to examine your payment terms to see if you can accelerate them. First let’s talk about what payment terms are common. Then I’ll share a study that...
by becky | May 1, 2015 | Apps & Technology, Marketing & Advertising, Uncategorized
Older marketing methods like direct mail and cold calling just don’t work as effectively as they did a few decades ago. There are two reasons for that: The trust level between people has dropped more than 20 percentage points in the last few years; people are more...
by becky | Apr 16, 2015 | Apps & Technology, Uncategorized
Google Drive, which used to be called Google Docs, is a great way to collaborate with team members and stakeholders that are in a different location than you are. Here’s a quick introduction (or refresher) on how to use this powerful collaboration tool. Google Drive...
by becky | Apr 2, 2015 | Accounting, Uncategorized
You’ve got someone to do your federal and state income tax returns, and you have a bookkeeper. So that’s all that a small business needs when it comes to having an accounting department, right? Wrong. Large companies have many functions in their accounting...
