As an entrepreneur, you spend most of your time focused on day-to-day tasks, like managing your staff, helping customers, and marketing your business. It’s easy for legal concerns to take a backseat—but that can be dangerous. Unless you take the proper steps to legally protect your business, everything you’ve worked so hard for can be […]
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After a long, gray, chilly Southern California spring, the official start of summer has finally passed and I, for one, can’t wait to start enjoying sunshine, hot days, and my cool backyard pool. As the song goes, “Summertime, and the living is easy”—but for small business owners, it’s not always easy to take time off
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Do you accept mobile payments at your business? If not, you could be missing out on a valuable—and growing—source of income. Although some 61% of small businesses admit to having cash flow problems, many aren’t taking advantage of smartphone technology to accept payments from customers. Small business owners and mobile payments Today, there are more and more
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By Andy Bailey Effective time management ranks among the more challenging, and often exasperating, aspects of being a successful leader. It requires the flexibility to respond to unexpected challenges and the self-discipline to block out distractions and complete daily tasks. In my experience as a business coach, I frequently hear leaders express frustration with how
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Do you want to have more focus, more time, and more clarity about your business? The KonMari method could be the answer. KonMari is the decluttering method created by Marie Kondo, a Japanese organizational expert whose Netflix show Tidying Up With Marie Kondo has become a surprise hit. Kondo is the author of the bestselling
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By Jennifer Faught I recently was working with a new team who shared that their management meetings last five-plus hours each week, and they still leave without clear results or outcomes. In fact, this practice has infiltrated the entire company culture, with people complaining about the frequency and inefficiency of meetings, leaving them frustrated, confused
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It’s not unusual for business owners to feel stuck at times. Sales are leveling off, it’s gotten hard to find employees to staff up, or you just feel like you’re in a rut. When this happens, you may need a new set of eyes to help you find ways to reenergize and grow your business.
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One of the most common reasons that small businesses fail is because there’s no market need for their services or products. This may seem like an obvious pitfall to overcome, and yet according to a CB Insights survey, this problem sinks 42% of small businesses that fail. Why? Because most small business owners don’t want to
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When you’re an entrepreneur, one of your best sources of advice can be other entrepreneurs. Sometimes, though, the advice they offer may not be very good, or at least not applicable to your company. To know when (and when not) to follow the advice of fellow entrepreneurs, we asked members of YEC this question: Q. What
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Predict problems? It sounds like the stuff of fantasy—or at least psychics. The reality, however, is that as a business owner you need some kind of sixth sense for issues within your company. Although you can’t exactly predict the future, you can set up an infrastructure that will help you address issues as they arise
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