Setting Up Products and Services

  The products and services your business sells make it unique. The same thing is true of how these items are set up in your accounting software.  Whether you’re using QuickBooks Online or something else, setting up products and services correctly can impact the quality of the information you can get out of your accounting […]

Evaluate Your Marketing Spend

One of the most important success factors of small businesses is the ability to generate revenue.  To do that most businesses need to market their services and products to bring in new customers and sales. The challenge for small business is how to make their marketing dollars work the hardest, and this requires careful tracking […]

Five Fun Customer Perks to Set You Apart in the Marketplace

It’s always fun to surprise and delight your customers with customer perks. This puts a smile on your client’s faces. It also boosts loyalty, and is fun for your employees too. Here are five fun customer perks to set you apart in the marketplace Handwritten thank you note. Email and social media have all but […]

Five Places Where Spending More Pays Off

It’s generally a good idea to keep overhead costs low so that your business profits will be higher.  This is especially true with items that are easily commoditized and fairly standardized, such as utilities and rent.  But there are times when increasing expenses pays off nicely, and here are five places where spending more pays […]

The Death of the Annual Performance Review

If you have employees, you probably also have a process to help them understand how they are doing on their job performance. There’s a new trend in large companies to kill the annual performance review and replace it with continuous, instant feedback as well as a tool called an after-action review.  This trend is the […]

6 Tips to Keep in Mind When Hiring Your First Employees

In the article 6 Tips to Keep in Mind When Hiring Your First Employees, Jeffrey Hayzlett, Prime Time TV Host and bestselling author of Foretime Cowboy, reflects on what he believes are the most important steps to do prior to hiring your first employees. Entrepreneurs start out as a one-man band, add devout followers and […]

Franchising Your Business

What are the Benefits of Franchising Your Business? Franchising is a business model where a parent company allows other people to operate franchises which offer the same quality of service and which follow similar procedures regardless of their local or international locations. There are many factors that benefit not only the parent company but the […]

10 Things Exceptional People Say Every Single Day

By: Jeff Haden http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/237471 September 16, 2014 LinkedIn Influencer, Jeff Haden, published this post originally on LinkedIn.     Want to make a huge difference in another person’s life? Want to make a huge difference in your life? Here are things 10 things exceptional people say every day — to employees, colleagues, family members, friends, […]

California Secretary of State Closed March 31, 2015

The California Secretary of State will be closed on Tuesday, March 31, 2015 in observance of César Chávez Day. We will remain open and documents will be filed the following business day.

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