This is a guest post by Tina Martin. Your home is where you eat, sleep, and relax, but it can be where you work as well. In fact, according to Fit Small Business, half of all businesses in the [...]

BACKGROUND Employee retention is one the key factors that businesses have challenges with today.  It makes no difference what business you are in, being able to retain and motivate employees [...]

Background A friend called the other day and said that Thanksgiving was cancelled– she called and told her whole family after many had made long distance travel arrangements to come and [...]

BACKGROUND Every business, either big or small, all rely on customers to stay in operation.  Forgetting who pays the bills, buys the products and provides the employee salaries and hopefully [...]

Business ownership involves continual improvement. Each day, entrepreneurs and freelancers make strategic decisions to propel their businesses forward. By removing inefficiencies and roadblocks, [...]

As business continues to grow, new product lines are often needed to sustain growth.  Our clients have found that becoming a government contractor can be a very lucrative source of additional [...]

Millennial workers prefer to work in a quiet, private environment as opposed to the “Open Office” concept that appears in vogue today.  In fact, most workers DO NOT like to work out [...]

A telecommuter called our office the other day with the title to this post.  His boss, whom he had  a good relationship with, had all of a sudden “changed the rules” on him, after [...]

Retaining good employees is critical in today’s dynamic environment.  Having a good employee ensures that the company will function well.  What happens when human resources makes a “bad [...]

A manager in a small business recently commented to us she was frustrated because the firm principals were disappointed that the business was not seeing sales improvement and profitability [...]

Attention to detail and ensuring that the customer is always right are the key to outstanding customer service as well as a happy customer.  Process control and operation are also important when [...]

Flexibility, teleworking and results—those factors keep millennials engaged in today’s work force. When your company does not allow or endorse such ideas, you are losing a valuable capacity and [...]