Small businesses are having a more challenging time finding holiday staffers this year as they try to compete with big players like Amazon for a shrinking labor pool. It’s time to get creative in where you’re looking and what you are offering prospective hires. Here are a few tips: Go beyond the obvious places when…

In today’s professional world, customers want immediate response and timely results. Often times, it is difficult to keep up with the demand being placed on small business owners. Small companies can become especially frustrated because they do not employ enough workers to perform the company’s tasks and interact with the customers at the same time....

What are you doing to ensure you’re building a brand that people will love – a brand that people will be loyal to and choose over your competitors? Let’s first define “brand loyalty.” Brand loyalty is when your customers turn to you for resources, help, products, services, anything before they even think about going to any of your competitors. Brand loyalty…

Having issues with employee morale or high-turnover? Have you considered offering your employees a “flexible work schedule” but not sure if it’s feasible for your business? There are definite advantages and challenges for employers and employees when an employer offers flexible work schedules including compressing work days, flexible daily hours or telecommuting. Advantages of Flexible…

Interim management is the temporary supply of an individual with management expertise into an organization. These individuals are referred to as “Interim Managers” and will typically be experienced business leaders who are able to manage an organization through a period of change or transformation, provide stability to a business following the sudden departure of a…

For many small business owners, one of the smartest growth strategies is through business acquisition. Acquiring an additional business can offer increased capabilities, such as new niche products or technologies, a larger market share, resource sharing, diversifying revenue concentration and many other advantages. Overall, a successful business acquisition should improve a company’s synergistic performance. In…

“Some of the most successful CEOs today had some help from someone in their industry. Steve Jobs mentored Facebook’s Mark Zuckerburg and Larry Page at Google had Eric Schmidt looking over his shoulder. Having a Business Coach who understands the highs and lows that come with business ownership is essential to taking your organization to…

I’d like to share one of my own personal experiences. . . I was a successful business owner who was in the process of going through an in-depth review of our people with a highly compensated HR consultant. We were working on evaluating the strengths of our existing management team, building our bench strength, developing…