The Top Five Benefits of Business Peer Groups
Are you looking to jumpstart your business’s growth? Connecting with other entrepreneurs in a business peer group can help you maximize your success by learning from the expertise of your peers. From gaining advice to implementing strategies, there are several significant advantages. Let’s dive in to uncover the top five! Receiving essential, timely advice from…
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Recession-Proofing Your Business: Five Tips for Trades Service Industry Owners
The trades service industry is one of the most resilient fields in the economy. Companies that offer highly skilled trades services such as plumbing, electrical, and HVAC are always going to be in demand, regardless of the economic climate. But, while these businesses may be recession-resistant, they are not recession-proof. Even the most reliable companies…
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Identifying Your Ideal Customer: An Essential (but Often Overlooked) Step for Business Profitability
As a small business owner in the trade service industry, it’s essential to identify your ideal customer for the long-term success of your business. But how do you go about identifying that ideal customer, and what specific strategies can you use to attract and retain them? One approach that has been proven to work is…
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6 Reasons Why You Need an Employee Volunteering Policy
Have you joined the growing number of companies that offer VTO—Volunteering Time Off? 60% of companies offer employees paid time off for volunteering, and another 21% of companies plan to implement a program by 2024. What’s all the hubbub about? The basic premise is simple: You compensate employees at their regular rate for volunteering during…
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4 (Easy) Ways to Improve Your Performance Management Process
If you’re like most employees, you dislike the performance review process. Whether you come at it from the perspective of a leader, a worker, or both, you likely dread the very thought of it. Turns out there are multiple valid reasons for that feeling. Consider W. Edwards Deming’s blunt assessment of the typical performance review:…
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Do You Have a Strong Company Culture? 6 Ways to Check
Every business, yours included, has a company culture. It consists of the values, behaviors, and standards (written and unwritten) of the work environment. A strong company culture creates employees who are highly engaged—they work hard and are productive because they love what they do, they believe in the company’s mission and values, they have great…
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Employee Wellness Made Easy!
It just makes sense: Healthier and happier employees are more productive and less likely to quit. According to a recent survey conducted by the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM), 93% of decision makers in small businesses say that the health of their employees is important to their bottom line, but only 22% offer wellness…
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Increase Your Profitability with the Profit First System
For small business owners, success and profitability can often feel like an elusive goal. With tight budgets, low profits, and living paycheck to paycheck, it’s no wonder there is great uncertainty. But what if you didn’t have to struggle from month to month? What if you could put a system in place that secures the…
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Why Your Frontline Workers Are Quitting-and 5 Things You Can Do About It
Frontline workers are the backbone of our economy. Whether they are customer-support representatives, landscapers, or cashiers, these individuals interact with the public on a daily basis, keep the economy humming, and make it possible for the rest of us to obtain the goods and services we need. During the COVID pandemic, frontline workers stayed on…
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