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Small businesses are feeling pressure from the economy and are looking for ways to save money. New data from a study conducted by the U.S. Federation of Small Business and DYMO shows just what these businesses are doing to cut costs:
- 23% of respondents have cut staff
- 36% of respondents have decreased business travel
- 36% of responden
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Layoffs have truncated staff; cost-cutting measures are threatening projects, and morale is in the toilet. From the manager’s perspective, getting the most out of employees in this kind of environment can seem like a Sisyphean task. In fact, it’s a perfect opportunity to rejigger processes and fix what’s broken — and managers are uniquely position
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You can't manage what you can't measure. This concept has been around for ages - and it makes perfect sense. How do you know if your business is going well if you don't have some performance metrics to consider. How can you figure out if your staff are productive if you can't measure their productivity or output? The trouble is that performanc
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For some companies a recession is a time to weather the storm; cut expenses, trim the staff, wait for better times ... and slash the marketing budget. But other companies see a recession as strategic time to take the offensive. When competition focuses more on internal cost cutting they focus less on customers.
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Employees don’t generally quit without a great inner debate. At what point did this person begin looking to leave and what can you learn from them to benefit the rest of your staff?
Here is a brief collection of resources to help you with this question:
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Your employees are the heart and soul of your business. As much as you’d like to be in control of the business and see it going in the right direction, much of it is in the hands of your employees.
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Loan fraud has been a long-standing, widespread problem within the Small Business Administration and has cost taxpayers literally hundreds of millions of dollars. But when a senior executive of Business Loan Express engineered a particularly brazen $76 million loan scam early last year, it was widely thought the SBA had finally learned its lesson.
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Nothing hurts office productivity like unplanned absences of colleagues and key staff members. When they are not present, you may be stalled on a project. Your may have to take on additional work to cover their tasks. Your time management efforts for that day are shot. Can you prevent this?
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With Memorial Day just weeks away, many people are thinking about taking time off during the summer. Small business owners need to be doing some planning too, to be sure employee vacations don't cause strife in the workplace or a drop-off in productivity.
Human resources professionals say the time between now and late May is when small compan
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Unlike large corporations where employees come and go all the time, small businesses can be affected more significantly by new staff. For you and your employees, gaining a new team member can feel like inviting a stranger to sit at the family dinner table. Here are some tips to help you and your employees welcome your new hire into the fold.
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Hiring commission-only salespeople may only look like a less expensive alternative to salaried employees, but in the end, it rarely works out that way.
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The minute you focus your energies on hiring your staff because you must have “diversity” or a broad range of people in your company is the minute that you are making a fatal mistake.
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We all know the customer is the most important person in our business, but sometimes we forget that the second most important person in the business is any staff member that comes in contact with the customer in anyway. The staff member that deals with the customer face-to-face is the person who represents the business in the customers mind. If th
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The salary you set must be high enough to attract top applicants but not so high that it eats into your profits or survival. With that in mind, she offers a series of tips, including these:
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SmugMug in Mountain View, Calif., is an example of how a startup can grow from an at-home operation to a $12 million-a-year subscriber-driven online business. Don MacAskill tapped his family to staff an ad-free photo-sharing site.
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