For many small businesses pricing products and services is more a matter of guesswork than logic. Mindful of competitor pricing, they make the mistake of simply undercutting to win business rather than carefully working out the price they need to charge – a price that not only covers the cost of doing business, but makes all the hard work worthwhile by returning a reasonable profit. (more…)
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Protecting Your Business With Credit Policies And Procedures
If you were in the money lending business would you hand over money to people without arranging a repayment contract with them? It doesn’t sound too smart, but most businesses are in the money lending business in just this way. In effect, by offering credit to your customers, you are providing them with a loan. Companies that lack sound credit policies and procedures take unnecessary risks and can jeopardize their very existence. (more…)
Catch The Video Marketing Wave To Success
In the not too distant past, producing and distributing videos to promote your business was costly and time consuming. However, the exponential growth of video sharing sites on the internet, such as YouTube, has now turned video into a very cost-effective marketing method. (more…)
The 4 Ways To Grow Your Business webinar
Date: 2010-08-26 Time: 01:00 – 02:00
It may sound a little simplistic, but there are really only 4 fundamental ways to successfully grow your business-in other words, make it more valuable:
- Increase the number of customers of the type you want to have
- Increase the number of times customers come back
- Increase the average value of each sale
- Increase the effectiveness of each process in the business
This topic looks at some of the key strategies within each of these 4 ways that you can use to make your business more valueable. It also looks at how they should be used synergistically in order to capture the greatest value and not miss out on opportunities to grow the business.
Register now: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/807816731
Time: 1PM-2PM ET Price: No-cost
Dates:
2010-08-26| Click to Register
Building A Winning Team webinar
Date: 2010-08-19 Time: 03:00 – 04:00
What business owner at some time hasn’t despaired of ever freeing themselves from constantly having to think for their employees? Who hasn’t wished they had people who could work more cooperatively to sort out things for themselves and come up with effective solutions? Maybe to even be feeding ideas back into the business about how to improve things?
To get people operating this way you need to turn your group into a team. And to do that you need to know how to build a business culture that will encourage teamwork to happen. But that’s only part of the story – the leader has to know the skills that will maintain team morale.
This BGR covers how to build a team in a small business by looking at how to introduce structures to promote teamwork and discussing the leadership skills needed to keep a team together.
Register now: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/868961579
Time: 3PM-4PM ET Price: No-cost
Dates:
2010-08-19| Click to Register
One-Third of Those Eligible Used COBRA Subsidy
 According to a study by the Treasury’s Office of Economic Policy, about a third of unemployed workers who were eligible took advantage of the COBRA subsidy to help pay for their health insurance. (more…) |
New W-2 Rule Causes Confusion
Starting with W-2s issued for the year 2011, employers will be required to report the value of 
health insurance premiums provided for each employee. (more…)
Con Artists Target the Unemployed
Federal officials have recently warned that employment-related scams are soaring. As the economy struggles and unemployment grows, ads for bogus jobs are on the rise. The ads are popping up everywhere from local newspapers to signs on the corner telephone pole. The Internet makes it easy for con artists to defraud victims with e-mail pitches and online job boards. (more…)
Follow IRA Withdrawal Rules
“You put your money in, and you take your money out.” Unfortunately, the rules for taking withdrawals from your IRA are not as simple as those for performing the classic children’s dance. (more…)
The Big 2010 Question: To Roth or Not?
For the first time ever, high-income taxpayers are eligible to convert a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA. Prior to 2010, you could not convert to a Roth in a year in which your modified adjusted gross income exceeded $100,000. (more…)
