Small Business Series: US Government Backed Loans
Access to capital for small businesses to start, grow, and thrive can be a maze of options. Outside of the private sector, the United States federal government has different loan program that small businesses can use
TikTok Tips: Understanding the 6 Different Paid Advertising Options
With over a billion users, your business can’t afford to ignore TikTok.
Veterans Build Your Business: 8 Steps to Setup for Success
Don’t let fear of failure prevent your from building your business. If you’re a veteran you have the grit to succeed.
8 Steps to Setup a PMO
How to create a function that facilitates collaboration and success.
5 Strategies to Manage CapEx
Large businesses aren't the only ones who have to get this right.
Silence is Not for Sale
Major changes to what is allowed for companies to demand of employees in severance packages
Small Business Insights from Our Engagement with QuickBooks
Capital allocation is the lifeblood of all companies. Here are some insights learned from our recent engagement with QuickBooks
Don’t Cut Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face
Cutting costs is never easy. Here are 4 guiding principles to help you when making cuts.
Looking for Presents? Grab these Business Books
Toys are fun? But you can also feed the mind this holiday season. Grab these great and enjoyable business books.
Stop Using Velocity to Manage Across Multiple Product & Project Teams
If you’ve managed a project or product development team, you’ve definitely used some type of sizing g technique (t-shirt sizes, Fibonacci numbers, etc.) to determine the amount of work that can both occur in a sprint as well to determine any efficiency gains that development team obtains over time.
Collaborating Better Through the 6 Thinking Hats
If you’re bilingual, studies show that depending on which language you are speaking, you “...put different emphasis on actions and their consequences, influencing the way they think about the world…”
22 Tax Planning Strategies for Small Business Owners
While you didn't become a small business owners to do taxes (unless that's your business), taxes come with the territory. Therefore, make sure that you are leveraging legal strategies to reduce the total taxes that you owe.
5 Keys to Successfully Implementing Agile: Trying to get over a waterfall in an agile barrel
There are buzzwords that circle professional circles like buzzards around a corpse. These buzzwords started out as actual ideologies and methodologies.
Key Sales Metrics to Track Part 1
While there are tons of data points that corporations track, for many startups and medium sized businesses there are certain key sales metrics that must be tracked because they are intrinsic to growth.
Don't Miss Out on Close to $1 Billion in Opportunities
From establishing past performance, to gaining customers, to funding your business, starting a business is hard. Fortunately for those of us who served in the military there are avenues which have been set aside for veterans to do business with governments at all levels.
How to Continually Close Deals with Relational Selling
There are two types of sales: 1) transactional and 2) relational. In the first type of sale, the deal is based purely on "I give you X and you give me Y". Normally either X or Y is money.
5 Ways to Get Your Business the Cash it Needs
Business and startups don't fail due to bad ideas, they fail because they run out of cash.
How to not be among the 43% of startups that fail within 3 years
There's a saying, "Revenue cures all ills". While that is a bit overblown, it is nevertheless at the core of why startups fail: they lack the capital to keep going.
Key Sales and Marketing KPI Calculator
Building a business is about building and growing with a strong foundation. In order to do that, you need to both track and know your key performance indicators (KPIs).
The Key Steps to Your Sales Process
Going from $0 to $1M in sales isn't magic. In fact going from any starting place to any ending place revenue wise isn't magic either. It's achieved by setting up a repeatable sales process and delivering an extraordinary service or product.