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Refine Your Sales Pitch and Land Your Dream Customers
Some salespeople think that if they talk longer, they add more value or get their point across more effectively. Actually, any prospect...
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How to Have Both Freedom and Control as a Business Owner
If you’re like the majority of business owners, you started your own business because you wanted the freedom to do things your...
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Lower Your Operating Costs in 2019
You’re probably familiar with the old maxim: A penny saved is a penny earned.
For small-business owners, those are words to live by. Anything...
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How to Improve Your Onboarding Process For New Hires
It’s not unusual for people to accept a new job, then experience the employment equivalent of buyer’s remorse during the ensuing weeks...
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Figuring Out the New Tax Changes
As the new year begins, once again it’s time to put your books in order for the tax season.
And with the sweeping...
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Are You Paying Employees the Right Wages?
Your business is growing and it’s clear you’ll need to hire another employee or two by next spring.
Have the wages you’re offering...
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How to Draft a Business Plan to Get Your Entrepreneurial Journey Started
The circumstances are perfect. You’re ready to make a major career move. You’ve decided to open your own contracting business.
You have an...
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Company’s Reality Web Series Returns
Since early 2017, Canada’s OSY Rentals and Rival Hydrovac have been producing a web series in the same vein as a typical...
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What No One Tells You About Being Your Own Boss
There are plenty of perks to running your own business — the autonomy, the control, the ability to spend your days in...
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In the Trenches
When Rick Hedge graduated from Florida State University in 1998, his gift was a trailer jetter. There was no question as to...
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Being Thankful
With the end of the year approaching, I flipped through the issues we’ve put out in 2018. We’ve highlighted some strong, growing...
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Documenting Discipline Shouldn’t Be Ignored by Employer
In an employment environment where risk management is absolutely vital, documenting employee discipline has become a critical task in protecting an organization....
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Bring a Positive Outcome to Negative Online Reviews
You can’t help but smile when people tell you how much they appreciate your business’ services. By the same token, it’s rough...
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Should You Combine Vacation, Holiday and Sick Days Into a Single Benefit Pool?
Vacation. Sick time. Holidays. Personal days. If you offer some or all of these to your employees, it can be dizzying to...
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7 Steps to a Better Online Reputation
So much depends on what pops up on a screen when a potential customer types your name or company name into a...
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Earn Customer Trust With a Credible Website
Trust is an invaluable commodity for any business owner. You likely won’t have any customers if people don’t trust you to follow...





