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Follow @powerhomebizSquare: Making it Easy to Accept Credit Card Payments
July 20, 2011 By 1 Comment
Square allows you to collect credit card payments through your mobile phone and iPad devices. The company is shaping up as a viable alternative for small businesses, with its ease of use and friendlier fee structure. Learn whether Square is a good option for you.
Follow @powerhomebizAre Your Communication Strategies Really Engaging Employees?
June 6, 2011 By 1 Comment
Employee engagement is a shared understanding of the issues that affect the business, and that understanding leads to changes in employees’ attitudes and behaviors. If you have employees, how engaged are your employees?
Follow @powerhomebiz7 Mistakes Made by New (and Even Some Seasoned) Business Leaders
June 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The challenges facing businbess leaders today is never ending and we get caught up in the stuff necessary to accomplish the immediate task at hand and we sometimes lose site of the ultimate goal or mission. Here are seven of the most common pitfalls that will blow any leader off course:
Follow @powerhomebizThe Role of Decisiveness in Achieving Results
May 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Read some advice from Denny F. Strigl, former president and CEO of Verizon Wireless, on how to become an effective manager. One core quality he looks for in a manager is decisiveness — he wants managers to make decisions and take action. When decisions need to be made, effective managers gather the facts, analyze the situation, consider alternatives, and decide on the best course of action — and they do it quickly.
Follow @powerhomebizHow Entrepreneurs Should Face Business Challenges and Manage Change
May 17, 2011 By 1 Comment
As an entrepreneur, you will constantly be faced with business challenges, and chief among them is managing change. When your small business is faced with a challenge, here are 7 steps you should take.
Follow @powerhomebizLessons from a Shopping Mall
May 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Shopping malls are changing, just as the behavior, lifestyle and attitudes of their customers are evolving. Your business has to learn how to adapt to the changing times if you want to survive and thrive. Stay ahead of the trend or risk being squashed by it!
Follow @powerhomebizA Conversation with Brian Tracy
April 16, 2011 By 1 Comment
From Brian Tracy’s upcoming book Full Engagement! Inspire, Motivate, and Bring Out the Best in Your People, Tracy opens managers’ minds to the amazing power and bottom-line payoff of practicing the Golden Rule in all of their actions in the workplace and developing clear values, vision, mission, purpose, and goals.
Follow @powerhomebizGuidelines for Allocating Scarce Resources
March 15, 2011 By 2 Comments
Scarce resources are a fact of business life. In the wake of devastating budget cuts, furloughs, and/or layoffs, however, “normal” levels of scarcity have been exacerbated. The question for many organizations has become, “How do we move forward from here most effectively?”
Follow @powerhomebizHow to Use Freelancers for Your Small Business
March 11, 2011 By 4 Comments
As a small business every pound has to be accounted for and it can be a difficult balancing act juggling the need for a particular skill or service without incurring the cost of hiring an extra staff member. A great way around the problem is to hire a freelancer or contractor to tackle specialist areas such as bookkeeping, marketing, IT, HR and office admin.
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