Business Resources
Editor’s Corner: ‘Social: The Now Media’ Social Media Summit for Small Business
HRR Managing Editor Devlin Smith attended the recent “Social: The Now Media” summit and learned how important it is for small businesses to have a social media presence. She offers tips and tricks she learned at the summit that can help your small business.
How to Craft a Succession Plan for Your Business
It’s essential for the sake of your family and employees to determine who’ll take over your shop when you no longer want to or can run it yourself. Here, shop owners and business experts discuss how to create a succession plan for your business.
Pricing to Increase Profitability for Your Shop
Harry Weimann discusses the importance of setting the right prices for your shop. There are several factors that can affect pricing and you must examine the prices of your products, materials and labor.
Making Sales Projections For Your Business in Uncertain Times
As the current year winds down, it’s time for small businesses to make their plans, budgets and forecasts for the coming year. Tom Searcy, an author and speaker, offered some advice for realistically making 2012 sales projections in a recent CBS Money Watch article.
5 Ways to Generate More Online Customer Reviews
As customers more and more rely on the Internet to find and research the brick-and-mortar shops they want to do business with, making sure your current customers are writing online reviews of your shop is key to bringing in new business. How can you make sure your best customers are telling their online community about you? The upcoming holiday season is a great time to encourage your customers to do just that, according to a recent Small Business Trends article by Lisa Barone.
How to Fire an Employee
It’s a miserable fact of being manager, sometimes you have to fire employees. Jeff Haden, former manager of a 250-employee book plant, offered seven suggestions for making the bad situation a little less terrible in a recent “Owner’s Manual” column on BNET.
Does Your Business Have All the Insurance Coverage It Needs?
If you’ve only purchased general liability and property insurance for your business, you may not have all the coverage you need, according to Ryan Hanley, an insurance agent based in Albany, New York, who wrote about the topic in a recent Small Business Trends article.
3 Easy Website Updates to Make in 30 Minutes
When you’re working on several builds, managing a staff, answering phone calls and doing the office work, you don’t have much time to spare for your website. All you need is a few minutes to keep your website current and engaging, according to Melanie Rembrandt, a search engine optimization copywriter, public-relations consultant and social media/content strategist. In a recent Startup Nation article, Rembrandt offered three tips you can follow to easily—and quickly—update your website.
How to Work With an Accountant
Accountants can do more for your business than just file your tax returns. By building a strong relationship, your accountant can also become a trusted advisor and partner. Here, shop owners share how working with an accountant has benefited their businesses.
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