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New Year, New Hires – Growing your Business with New Employees
Using your best employees and clients can help your company grow, The author shares her ideas how to start a New Year in a truly new way.
From $1.7M in the Hole to Debt Free
How SCORE helped an owner to get the company of debt
Thinking of Starting a Business? Initial Steps
Basic principles of starting a business can be easily overlooked. The author offers a series of blogs related to start-ups and reviews multiple steps from business plan to various costs
The Commercial Lease: What You Should Know
Commercial leasing contracts can be tricky. The authors share helpful tips on what to consider and how to negotiate with the landlord
Back to Basics in Substantiating Your Charitable Contribution
Charity is honorable and welcomed. The author brings the light on how to process contributions to avoid penalties.
Start the New Year Off Right: 5 Resolutions for Better Business
The approaching New Year can stimulate your growth if you follow the author's five simple but effective ideas
For the Life of Your Business - SCORE
What SCORE can and can not do for you.
Business Licenses and Permits – What Do You Need?
To keep a small company in compliance with local laws can be time-consuming and expensive. To avoid unnecessary stress, SBA prepared a list of information that serves as a guide for small businesses.
The Public Library Has Resources to Check out Your Competition!
Libraries offer a database to marketers and entrepreneurs. Using the example of Appleton Public Library, the author demonstrates various tools to explore and to map businesses.
Research Your Business Purchase and the Closing Checklist (Buying Existing Businesses by SBA Part 2)
How to buy a business? Without a clear understanding of all legal steps of buying existing business, the mistakes are inevitable. The author gives a detailed list of initial and closing stages of buying a business tp avoid serious legal issues in the future. Consider to start with doing a research before anything else.
Improving Sales: Why is no one buying my new product or service?
After years of planning and rigorous testing, you’ve perfected your product or service and delivered a shiny new offering to the marketplace. You expected your customers to line up…to swarm for this latest innovation, but instead you were met with crickets.