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: Take This Time-Management Quiz Marketing consultant ruth klein helps clients manage their time, which of course then allows them to work more effectively and make more money. She sent along this provocative little time-management quiz to help you determine how well you organize your day. Spend a minute or … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Send Flowers to an Employee’s Spouse Being on the road away from home can be a drag. But when you get to spend time with people like Dr. Allan Weis, it’s worth the trip. Weis and I met a few years ago when we were part of a traveling … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Tips for Recruiting Executives Gregory h. wingfield, president of the Greater Richmond Partnership Inc., suggests the following guidelines for recruiting small business executives: Make certain the executive is not a dyed-in-the-wool corporate player. Those spoiled by the trappings of a huge support staff and a battalion of secretaries may … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Consider Hiring Remote Workers Lioyd henry, founder and president of Biotech Marketing Inc., which buys and sells used and refurbished hospital equipment, prefers to hire salespeople without meeting them. “The important thing to me is that the person relates well on a personal basis over the phone,” said Henry. … 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
