Small Business Tips
5 Tips to Get a Handle on Your Schedule
There are 24 hours in a day. As a small business owner, you are constantly trying to squeeze as many activities into your day as humanly possible. This can oftentimes mean burning the midnight oil, but is that wise? Our brains require the right amount of sleep to function at maximum capacity, so if you get in the habit of tying up your loose ends throughout the night, retiring sometimes as late...
Ways To Get Paid
Starting a small business can be very exciting. But there’s one thing that you may not have learned about in any seminar or book. It’s not always easy to get paid. This is especially true if your small business is of the freelance or contracting sort, or if you simply aren’t keeping a close eye on your accounts. Since getting paid means staying afloat, here are some ways that you can make sure ...
Charity Deductions: The Details
Donating money to any charity is a really good thing, but don’t expect all of the donations you make to be tax deductible. In some cases, a donation might not be deductible at all, and in other instances a donation has to come with the right paperwork in order for your Fort Collins CPA to list that deduction. Here are some things about charitable deductions that you need to know before you deci...
The New Home Office Deductions
Did you know that roughly three-million Americans work from home as freelancers or contractors? If you are one in three million, you should know that the tax rules for home office deductions have changed. Take a look at the new rules below. Under the new ‘Safe Harbor’ law, freelancers can now claim $5 per square foot, and up to 300 square feet when it comes to home office space. If you work fr...
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...
