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May
15
What Do Your Financial Statements Say About Your Business?
By admin|May 15, 2012|Category: Operations

Although your financial year-end can be at any time of the year, many businesses have a Dec 31st year end. This means your accountant will have last year’s financial statements ready by now.

Accounting might be your least favourite part of running your business, but your year-end financials can be a powerful tool to analyze your performance over the past year, compare it to your year-over-year business performance and make informed management decisions moving forward.

Although it is tempting to just look at your financial statements on a standalone basis, it is always good to have something to compare them to. Below are three important comparisons you should be making.

May
9
When the Office is at Home
By admin|May 9, 2012|Category: Operations

Two of the most difficult challenges for SOHO businesses are Time Management and the separation of Home & Business Life.

It’s so easy to get ‘disconnected’ from a balanced lifestyle when one or the other is vying for our attention. Getting control of both business and personal areas of our lives requires organization and self-discipline.

Here are a few ‘tasks’ to get started.

Determine where the time is spent.
By using a weekly Task TimerTM sheet allocated in 15 minute increments, you will be able to determine how much time and where you spend the time on each task whether it’s personal or business related

May
2
Every Business has a Pattern
By admin|May 2, 2012|Category: Operations

You have sorted all your documents into current, reference, or historical compartments. It is now time to develop a tracking system suitable to your thought patterns. Set up correctly and logically, you will be able to locate a document in 60 seconds or less.

How it Works

Your own thought process creates the pattern. It works in conjunction with your style of work and business needs. Find the pattern and your system will flow. The magic happens when you hone in and grasp your own pattern that is logical to you. Almost immediately you will adapt to the system and understand why your documents are filed or stored away in a specific place. Your own thought processes create the pattern.

Apr
25
WEB VIDEO: The New Frontier of Social Media Marketing
By admin|April 25, 2012|Category: Social Media

You’re in front of a camera.
The red recording light goes on.
ACTION!

Do you feel confident delivering your message?
Are you engaging and dynamic on video?

Or are you stiff and nervous, fumbling over your words?

As an entrepreneur and CEO, you ARE the best spokesperson for your business - so how much training have you invested in yourself?

A tidal wave of web video is coming down the pipe. Cisco Systems predicts in less than 3 years, more than 90% of the data online will be VIDEO.

Apr
17
LinkedIn: More Important Than Your Website?
By admin|April 17, 2012|Category: Social Media

Are you using LinkedIn to grow your business? Or have you been thinking of using it but haven’t got around to it yet?

LinkedIn is essential for all B2B businesses but can also be very effective for B2C businesses. The approach for B2C will be different, but can be equally effective when you utilize LinkedIn’s groups that have members within your target market. To learn more about B2B vs. B2C click here.

Apr
11
Successful Problem Solving
By admin|April 11, 2012|Category: Human Resources

Problem solving is a key skill that can make a huge difference to your business. Whether resolving a problem between you and your client, you and your employees, or you and your union, three things need to exist:

1.Shared goals: The thing about shared goals is that you have to walk the talk. In good problem resolution, before trying to solve the problem, take the time to define what the problem is in detail. Ask “Why” over and over until you can’t go any deeper. If you don’t work on the roots of a problem, any resolution is merely temporary.