Great Ideas for your Small Business: Beat Your Deadlines Janice gay, a freelance desktop publisher in Florida, shared this great idea during a brainstorming session a few years ago. It’s simple but smart. “I move my deadline up a few days earlier than the date I quoted the client,” she said. “Then I meet my … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Plan “In” Days and “Out” Days As my business flourished and my life became busier and busier, I needed a better way to structure my time. I came up with this plan when I was working out of my home office in Sun Valley, California. Sun Valley is a … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Hire a Personal Information Officer The information superhighway leads to information overload for many busy entrepreneurs. With so much to do, it’s difficult to find the time to keep up with all the websites, books, magazines, and professional journals we know we should be reading. One solution with multiple … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Get Organized – Right Now Every successful entrepreneur tries to be well-organized in order to maximize every minute of the day. If you believe getting organized is just for the compulsively neat, add up the time you spend every day hunting around for misplaced files or documents. You’ll be … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Rely on Temps or Leased Workers Finding skilled workers is a small business owner’s nightmare. Talented people, especially in the high-tech arena, are fielding multiple job offers. In a seller’s market, top people demand high salaries, incredible benefits, and perks. Big companies can afford to woo them, but what … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Take Your Sexual Harassment Policy Seriously In june 1997, a federal jury awarded $6.6 million to a woman who was subjected to regular sexual taunts from her coworkers at a car dealership. Sexual harassment is serious business. That’s why even the smallest company should have a written policy in … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Deal Carefully with Issues of Workplace Violence What would you do if your sales manager walked into work one morning with a black eye? What do you say when your secretary shows up with a split lip and puffy, swollen eyes? Do you ask what happened? Do you pretend … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Offer Employees the Right Incentives If you think glitzy trips to atlantic city or Las Vegas are great sales motivators for your employees, think again. When offered the choice between a trip or money, 44 percent of the employees polled preferred the financial reward, while 39 percent said they … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Find Out How Disney Does It No one is surprised when an entrepreneur heads to Harvard, New York University, or USC for a management training program, but eyebrows raise when they sign up for a course at Walt Disney World’s Disney Institute in Orlando, Florida. More than 60,000 people … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Offer Classes in English as a Second Language It’s no surprise to me that two of the nation’s most successful entrepreneurs offer free, onsite English as a second language (ESL) classes to employees. David Giuliani, president of the Optiva Corp., and the Small Business Administration’s 1997 Small Business Person … Read more
