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Labor costs just shot way up in the states of California and New York. California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation Monday that will raise the minimum wage in the state to $15 an hour.
Similar legislation was signed in New York the same day.
California legislators and labor unions negotiate Read More
While all online businesses need a professionally-guided ad campaign, perhaps the best way to promote your business is through your customers. If you believe that your products are the best, you can and should talk about that. But, if you’re honest, you will admit that you are not exactly the most Read More
Every decision you make in the business world has some sort of risk attached. The key to being successful in the long run is taking calculated risks that minimize negatives and maximize positive outcomes. Have you mastered taking calculated risks, or are you still working on it? Read More
UPS has rebranded its oldest small package delivery service in order to provide more reliable logistic solutions for small businesses.
Accountants, healthcare firms and small manufacturers are all expected to benefit from the arrival of UPS Next Day Air Early — which will create an earlier guarant Read More
Minority businesses still struggle with credit in a way other small businesses do not, a report from global business analytics firm Experian says.
According to Experian, minority owned businesses see an average business credit score of 49.7, five points lower than other U.S. businesses.
Meanwhile Read More
Bad hires are expensive based on an interesting survey performed by CareerBuilder revealing that 41 percent of companies estimate that a bad hire costs more than $25,000; 25 percent of companies said a bad hire costs more than $50,000. And the higher the position, the higher those numbers become. B Read More
You’ve worked hard to get your business where it is, and maybe you’re okay staying small. But I encourage you to consider what your brand would look like if it did grow. Maybe you could afford to hire more employees, taking a lot of the workload and stress off of your own back. Maybe you could offe Read More
Early on in my career as a cartoonist most of what I had to worry about was just writing and drawing cartoons. Now, after 15 years or so in business, I’ve got more to schedule.
There’s the constant care and feeding of the website, meetings with clients, calls with vendors and employees, editorial Read More
More and more, business applications are using data science to automatically provide intelligence and insight in real-time to users, especially when it comes to customer engagement. But most of these systems typically are created with larger enterprises in mind. Still, small and midsize businesses Read More
Despite the growth of online shopping, brick-and-mortar stores aren’t dead — far from it. In fact, according to the 2016 BDO Retail Compass Survey of CFOs, the biggest area in which small retailers plan to invest in the coming year isn’t ecommerce, but redesigning and remodeling physical stores.
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