Especially this year, there’s a lot riding on this holiday season, especially for small businesses.
Holiday shopping can be emotionally charged with customers trusting retailers with a big task: ensure loved ones get the perfect gift.
Those who succeed can win loyal customers for life with more new customer orders throughout the year!
When asked, most small leaders say they want to lead ethical companies.
In fact, a recent Small Business Digest survey indicated 73% of respondents voted for ethical leadership as a key component of success.
Juggling many responsibilities often takes the focus of small business leaders away from growing their companies.
According to Erin Shea, North America Manager at Vistaprint, her company recently surveyed 400 SBOs to understand what is keeping them busy and how this impacts their business and personal lives.
It’s no secret that small business owners (SBOs), juggle many responsibilities -- from business planning and strategy to answering phones and ordering supplies.
According to Erin Shea, North America Manager at Vistaprint, the compan recently surveyed 400 SBOs to understand what is keeping them busy and how this impacts their business and personal lives.
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With years of regulatory restraint seemingly behind them, small business owners are focusing on growth in 2018.
What’s the difference between a boss and a leader?
According to Barry Kaplan and Jeff Manchester, authors of The Power of Vulnerability, “The boss is the person who owns the ultimate decision.”
They add, “He or she is accountable for a particular decision.
Using bottom-up Inductive Reasoning can create a strong case for a sale when Deductive Reasoning won’t. Put it another way. Selling a business is essentially telling a story that is substantiated by the facts.
It is always interesting to learn more about what drives the success of business owners and entrepreneurs.
A recent survey of 248 such high-net-worth business owners and entrepreneurs by Bank of America, U.S. Trust explored their experiences from start-up to expansion to exit.
According to Karen Reynolds Sharkey, National Business Owner Strategy Executive at U.S. Trust the survey was designed to gain insight into the mindset and challenges at each stage of business ownership.
The decision of timing on when to hire a CFO is a challenge – do it too early, and you’re wasting resources. Wait too long, and opportunities for growth and scale may have gone unrealized due to lack of financial expertise and experience.
Ellen Wood, CEO, vcfo offers these thoughts on the need for strategic planning and more sophisticated accounting and reporting:
Lessons learned from exporting goods and services abroad can also help companies improve their domestic business
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