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Have a new employee? Take these steps with your bank to get them on board.

No matter what field you’re in, hiring a new employee can be a busy time for your company. While managing all the necessary orientation tasks and administrative paperwork, it’s important…

Extending Credit To Your Customers

The marketplace is competitive. Prospective customers expect you to extend credit to them. However, is it the right decision for your business? Offering credit to your customers has its pros…

Repaying a Business Loan

If you’re trying to pay down some of your business debt, you might be wondering how long it might take by making the standard payment, or what the impact might…

Sales Volume Required to Break Even

The break even point for a product or a business is the point where sales revenue equals your fixed plus total variable costs. If you are below the break even…

Effective Employee Communications

Today, more so than any other time, businesses focus heavily on engaging customers, the media, investors, community members, and analysts — or some combination of them. But with so much…

Measuring the ROI of Your Marketing Budget

These days, small businesses are under more pressure to prove ROI or return on investment of their marketing budgets. That means marketers have to track performance through more than site…

Keeping Your Business & Personal Finances Separate

Every accountant will tell you the same thing: always keep your business and personal expenses separate. Also, each small business owner or one-person operation will nod her head and agree…