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There aren’t a lot of books that cover how to be a good Team Leader at Target or a Product Line Manager in a manufacturing company.
Yet, that is precisely what companies need to address. Front line managers are the most visible and influential level of every business. They influence the culture an Read More

A change is coming to PayPal that is designed to protect both buyers and sellers should a dispute over digital goods arise.
On its website, PayPal gives the examples of services, digital goods, travel and event tickets as intangible items. As of July 1, if a buyer claims they did not receive the i Read More

Not all news is good news. That’s especially true in the world of small businesses this week. Search engines, social media platforms, and other tools regularly update and add to their offerings for businesses. But not all of those updates necessarily make life easier for small business owners.
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When you tell your employees it’s time for the weekly training meeting, you can almost see their groans. Training is generally not anyone’s favorite hour of the day and it can be expensive, especially for small business startups.
However, when it comes to a small business training new employees, p Read More

This cartoon was a thorn in my side for a full day.
I ran across the idea about correlation and causation and knew there was something there, but it was tricky. At one point, the caption was a full paragraph and there was some sort of Venn diagram involved.
I’m not kidding. It was a mess. Read More

There’s a milestone in Biz2Credit’s latest report. For the first time in the index’s history, small business loans approved by institutional lenders have surpassed those approved by alternative lenders.
That’s according to the May 2015 Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index, an analysis of 1,000 Read More

When trying to get funding for small businesses, it helps if you have a product that you’ve demonstrated the ability to sell successfully. But as some tech startups have shown recently, that’s no longer an actual requirement.
Buzzy tech companies like Magic Leap, a virtual reality startup, have be Read More

As a blogger you know that that your work isn’t done until you’ve created an invoice and been paid for your services.
But, let’s be honest, invoicing isn’t always a priority. Despite it’s importance, invoicing can be a headache-inducing task.
However, it doesn’t always have to be that way if you Read More

You say you care about work-life balance, but do you, really?
A new survey found that while women small business owners claim to value work-life balance more than men, women are less likely than men to actually take steps to achieve that elusive goal.
Capital One’s latest Spark Business Barometer Read More

When you hear the term “mobile first,” it generally prompts you to think of visual design, meaning the way a website appears on a desktop versus smartphone.
Today, many companies have launched mobile default versions of their desktop sites in response to the tremendous growth of consumers who choo Read More