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Important Business Skills You Can Learn in College

Entrepreneurs each have a unique story to tell. Some might’ve always planned to start a business, while others pursued the small business life due to other reasons. Maybe they wanted more flexibility or time freedom. Maybe their job options were limited where they live but they could start a new business. Or perhaps it was a natural extension of something they were passionate about.

College student using study apps

Whatever the reason, the life of owning a small business is one of always learning. And one way to learn new business skills is to take college courses.

While it may not be necessary to have a degree in business to succeed in business, there are plenty of skills you can learn that will benefit you greatly.…

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Are You Leveraging Sales Data To Grow Your Business? 

One of the main objectives of for-profit businesses is to sell products or services. So, when customers start making purchases, it’s easy to assume that you’re on the right path to accomplishing your goals. However, most novice entrepreneurs fail to understand that generating sales is not the same as turning a profit. Similarly, making a few sales today doesn’t mean that you’ll make the same or more sales going forward.

Discussing sales report

The most successful small business owners realize that turning profits and increasing sales over time requires continual evaluation, informed decision-making, and effective change. More than checking how much money you made, entrepreneurs must evaluate sales reports to get a detailed picture of their company’s success (or lack thereof).…

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How to Pick The Best Payroll and HR Software for Your Business

Picking the right HR and Payroll Software for your business isn’t as simple as it may seem at first glance.

HR manager using payroll software

There are plenty of companies out there offering these services, so you need to do some research and comparison before you can find the best one for your company. Fortunately, we’ve done that research and comparison for you by detailing the benefits of each service along with comparing those benefits to those of other software offerings out there, allowing you to make an informed decision about which service will best suit your business’s needs and your employee’s needs as well.

Time off Tracking

The first question you need to ask yourself is if you want a centralized or decentralized time-off management solution.…

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Transforming a Small Business into a Medium-Sized One

Is your small business ready to make the transition to the next level? For many owners, this is the most crucial phase in the history of their organizations.

Growth strategic meeting

Often, the size increase is a make-or-break moment in time, one that separates the long-term survivors from the rest of the pack. But, because every entity is unique, it’s often difficult to use a template approach for growing a startup organization into a medium-sized one. Fortunately, several relatively common techniques deliver solid results for the vast majority of owner-entrepreneurs. In so many situations, the first step is to hire additional employees.

After that, strategies are many and varied.…

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An Essential Guide to How Business Owners Automate Construction Estimates

As a construction expert, you have years of industry knowledge. You know how long each project should take and what it should cost. As a business owner, however, the time required to generate a construction estimate manually is cost-prohibitive. It can keep you from taking on work that could be profitable in the short term and limit your potential in the long term.

Automating construction estimates

To help you remain focused on your business, you should embrace ways to automate your construction estimates and the information that they contain. Generating accurate, professional-looking construction estimates quickly and efficiently is the best way to promote your business.…

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Discover Tools to Make Your Business Grow in 2022

If you own, manage, or invest in a business, it’s important to keep up with the ever-changing business world. Not only does business change each year, but tactics and tools that can help your business grow are being made each day. Keeping up with these can help your investments skyrocket and your company grow.

Business growth 2022

How can you know what tools are the best to help your business? This guide takes a look at some of the newest, most innovative tools available in 2022 that can support you and your company. Here’s what you need to know.

Tools to Manage Your Company’s Finances

One of the most important aspects of company growth is finances.…

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What to Know Before Deciding to Open a Senior Living Facility

They say old age is like gold, scarce but highly demanded. Less than 20% of the world’s population lives to be 90 years or older, and if they do, most of them end up in senior living facilities. With the number of people in assisted living facilities increasing every day, it’s pretty a lucrative business if you plan your venture well and weigh your options vehemently. Unfortunately, firms in this niche tend to hit the rocks for a variety of reasons. For example, they have limited knowledge about the options that are available for senior housing finance.

Senior living facility

Unfortunately, firms in this niche tend to hit the rocks for a variety of reasons.…

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What to Consider Before Going Forward with International Expansion

When you are looking to expand into international markets, many factors can affect your decision. The country you’re expanding into could be very different from the one in which your company originated, and this difference could impact everything from language barriers, cultural differences, or even government regulations.

International business expansion

Before deciding whether or not to go forward with an international expansion strategy, it’s essential to consider these factors carefully and come up with a plan of action to address them.

In many cases, you’ll want to hire an international market entry consultant or firm to get advice on the risks and benefits of expanding internationally.…

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How to Stand Out of Competition in Business: 5 Successful Tips

If you’re a business owner, I am sure you feel the whole world is turning against you. There is SO MUCH competition in the market and it is only increasing with time. To become successful, it is important to stand out and beat the competitors.

Winning the business competition

Here are some successful tips to do just that:

1. Recognize Your Target Market and Their Needs

You are in the world of business to offer a solution to a particular problem. The most important thing that you need to do is to figure out who exactly is facing the problem that you are offering a solution to.…

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How to Elevate Your Resource Planning

We’ve all heard the saying, “Prior planning prevents poor performance.” However, there is “planning” and then there’s Planning. The latter entails careful consideration of the resources needed to complete a project and ensuring that they’re exactly where they need to be — in the exact quantities required — to deliver the desired result.

Resource planning

With that in mind, here’s how to elevate your resource planning to increase productivity, enhance morale, eliminate delays, ensure quality, keep costs minimal and benefit from every opportunity.

Identify Your Needs At The Onset

Rather than getting halfway in only to discover a key element is missing, spend some time at the very beginning figuring out exactly what you’ll need.…

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