Is your at-home business stalling out? Building a business from the ground up is hard under any circumstances. When you’re working out of a home office (or your living room), it’s that much more difficult. These five strategies can break you out of your home business doldrums without necessitating a dramatic lifestyle change. 1. Do Something You Love … [Read more...] about Up Your At-Home Earnings Without Changing Your Lifestyle: 5 Strategies to Try Now
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5 Ways to Increase the Profits in Your Small Business
Are you a small business owner who dreams about dollar signs all night? While this might just seem like wishful thinking that will never come true, there are a few basic strategies on how to increase the profits, beef up your bottom line to increase your return on investment and put more money in your business bank account. 1. Make improvements to how you run your … [Read more...] about 5 Ways to Increase the Profits in Your Small Business
Managing Retail Price-Point and Margin Pressures
The greatest challenge independent retailers are struggling with right now, even more than depressed traffic counts, is getting full margins for their goods. This struggle continues with fresh arrivals of fall goods, and shows no sign of abating. Customers remain extremely value conscious, and to them, that means "On Sale". It's important to recognize that what's at work … [Read more...] about Managing Retail Price-Point and Margin Pressures
Don’t Wait for Tax Time to Look at the Bottom Line
A curious thing happens to entrepreneurs in the spring of every year. They wake up one day and realize they had better figure out how much money they made last year so they can pay their taxes. But wait, shouldn't a business owner already KNOW their bottom line -- e.g. how much money he or she made last year, last quarter, or last month? If you don't keep track of how much … [Read more...] about Don’t Wait for Tax Time to Look at the Bottom Line
10 Tools of Profitable Revenue Growth
Below is an excerpt from the book Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business: 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morningby Ram Charan. Reprinted with permission from publisher. 1. Revenue growth is everyone's business, so make it part of everyone's daily work routine. Every employee wants to be part of a company's growth agenda, but most don't know how. Managers need to provide … [Read more...] about 10 Tools of Profitable Revenue Growth