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5 Common Bookkeeping Pitfalls — and How to Avoid Them

Bookkeeping is an essential aspect of running any business, yet it often gets overlooked. Mistakes in bookkeeping can lead to costly errors, legal complications, and an unclear financial picture of …

Timing Your Business Loan: Key Considerations

Timing your business loan is a crucial decision that can significantly impact your company’s financial health and growth potential. Understanding the key considerations involved in this process is essential for …

Top Strategies to Protect Your Data from Cyber Threats

Many small business owners assume that cyber attacks only happen to big companies, banks or governments. But the truth is, limited knowledge of digital security and lack of defences make …

TOP REASONS TO HIRE A VIRTUAL CFO

Why Small Businesses Should Hire a Virtual CFO As small businesses grow, managing finances becomes increasingly complex. Hiring a Virtual Chief Financial Officer (CFO) can be a strategic move to …

When Your Business Needs a Lawyer

Running a small business means that every dollar matters, and it can be challenging to justify expenses that don’t seem essential. However, hiring a lawyer at crucial moments in your …

Protect Your Business: Top Reasons to Hire a Business Lawyer

In today’s complex business environment, legal challenges can arise at any moment, making it crucial for business owners to have access to reliable legal counsel. Whether you’re launching a startup, …

Innovating for Business Success

As a small business owner, I can relate to the challenges of balancing innovation with stability while trying to increase revenue and achieve a better work-life balance. Relying solely on …

15 Questions to ask a Tax Preparer

Lately I have been helping a large number of customers that had their previous year returns prepared by a less than honest tax professional. The experience led me to brainstorm …

6 Proven Ways to Improve Your Content Writing

When it comes to writing for blogs, not all content is created equal. Many articles are rushed, poorly written, and lack the research to back them up, all of which …

Best Books for the Business Owner’s library

Bookstores and libraries around the world supply excellent instructional materials. Riding in the car or traveling on airplane, you can learn from experts. The bestseller lists at Amazon are fantastic …

4 Tips for Getting Your Business Through Tough Times

If you’re a small business owner whose company hasn’t gone through hard times, that’s great but it’s likely to happen at some point. As much as we dream about being …

Presentations – Saying It Without Words

It’s easy to believe that the key skill in giving a presentation is making sure you say the right thing, but studies have shown that 55% of your message comes …

How to learn from failure in business

Ask any successful entrepreneur about their path to greatness and you’ll get the same answer: failure is an inevitable part of the journey. It took Thomas Edison 1,000 failed attempts …

Tips on creating personal development plans for employees

Hopefully you have long – and short-term plans for your company and you may even have a strategy for your own development, but have you considered having a personal development …

Want to chat about business plans for next year?

Business Planning for 2020 It’s hard to believe but the year is almost over! If you’re like us we’re currently working on our 2020 business plan (writing 2020 might get …

Workable New Year resolutions

New Year resolutions – we’ve all made them, and broken them − often before the end of January. There’s something about New Year celebrations that makes us yearn for a …

What are the hidden costs of buying a house?

A word to the wise if you’re shopping for a new home: the list price is only a baseline. You’ll want to have a substantial buffer in your budget for …

Planning the year ahead

The turn of the year usually prompts most people to think about some business planning for the year ahead. Here are some tips to make the planning more productive. Get …

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Update your business plan for a new year

As another year winds down, it’s a good time to reflect on your recent business successes – and consider what you’d like to achieve in the coming twelve to fifteen …

The common time waster that stops your business from growing

Being a small business owner can be fantastic. You get to be involved in every aspect of your business, from marketing to event planning, from sales to employee development. Being …