How to Develop Customer Relationships
There are definitely right ways and wrong ways to work with customers. As business consultants for a number of different types of companies, we’ve seen both. As your business consultants, we want to give you some pointers on how to communicate effectively with sales prospects, so that you can develop excellent relationships that eventually turn into long-time clients. Listen carefully: most pe...
Top Reasons Why Businesses Fail
As business consultants, we want to see your company succeed. Sometimes, even the best intentioned company can fail due to things founders simply didn’t think about. Before you go one step further with your business, take a look at this list of top reasons why businesses fail – and avoid these pitfalls at all costs. No real business plan: Time and time again, entrepreneurs create business...
How to Remember Things Better
There’s so much going on in the course of one workday that it’s really easy to forget a lot of details. Although it happens to the best of us, forgetting an appointment or the name of the person you’re trying to sell to can be detrimental to success. Since the brain is easily trained, you can learn to remember things better just by going through a few actions every day. Before you know it, even...
How to Get More Hours in Your Day
The one thing that all small business owners find frustrating is that there are only so many hours in a day. What would you do if you had more hours to play with? How much more money could you make? What would you spend more time on? Unfortunately, you can’t bend or stop time, but you can find ways to put more hours in your day. Take a look at these ways to find more hours in your day from your...
How to Start Life as an Entrepreneur
As business consultants, the team at SJ Wick sees a lot of different types of entrepreneurs. Some of those entrepreneurs are successful from the start, and others find the whole process somewhat difficult. If you have a dream of starting your own business, we want to help you get where you’re aiming to go by providing you with some useful tips on starting life as an entrepreneur. Here’s how to ...
Home Office Deduction Tips
If you work from home, you should take advantage of home office deductions. A Forbes article notes an interesting detail: most people do not make home office deductions because they are afraid of an audit! There’s a false rumor floating around that any deduction made will cause a red flag to appear, and that, in turn, will result in a fast audit. While there’s little to no truth to that notion,...
How to Hire a Small Business Consultant
When you’re not sure where to go with your business or how to get there, a small business consultant can help. Selecting the right business consultant for your company can be hard, though, because you don’t want to choose the wrong one (and wind up in a place you don’t want to be at all). Here are our tips on choosing the right business consultant. Find out if the consultant you are about to h...
Combat the High Cost of Employee Benefits
The high cost of doing business has just become even higher. Federal and state requirements regarding employment and employee benefits can appear to threaten profits and growth for many small business owners. In addition to health care costs mandated by the recently enacted Affordable Health Care Act, employers are also faced with rising costs for retirement plans, unemployment insurance, and o...
