The weather has been turning quickly, as temperatures across the United States are plummeting. For businesses of all types and sizes, wintertime brings about a lot of changes to store policies, hours, maintenance and inventory. It’s good to begin prepping your business now so you’re fully prepared for all that winter brings. 1. Prepare Your … Continue reading Preparing Your Business for the Cold Weather Ahead
Many business owners feel as though the workforce isn’t operating as efficiently as it should, yet are at a loss for how to improve productivity. Short of firing your staff and starting anew, what strategies are actually effective at boosting work performance and streamlining the workforce? Here are some simple and cost-effective ways to get … Continue reading 6 Strategies for Streamlining Your Workforce
When it comes to finding new customers and leads, these business owners swear by these five helpful strategies. Advertising can be prohibitively expensive for smaller companies, and marketing efforts can sometimes seem scattershot. We asked five business owners to share the methods they used for discovering powerful new customer lines that actually worked. These grassroots efforts … Continue reading 5 Ways Business Owners Have Won over New Customers
Business owners need to possess multifaceted skillsets. Not only is it imperative to possess exceptional work ethic and business management skills, but you need to be an excellent writer, a mathematician and a creative thinker, as well. When it comes to finding the ideal profit margin, it requires both excellent mathematical skills and innovative thinking. … Continue reading Honing in on the Perfect Profit Margin
What's the status of your back-to-school marketing plan? According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), the average family will spend more freely on school and college supplies this year. It expects total spending for K-12 and college to reach $75.8 billion, up from last year's $68 billion. The annual NRF survey, conducted by Prosper Insights and … Continue reading Back-to-School Promotion Ideas for Small Businesses
What makes a company good and sustainable and a place where people want to work? According to BusinessKnowHow.com, there are five traits of a good company: [T]he leadership team must have a great ambition for the company.[This ambition must address] an unmet customer need.Good companies stay focused on what they know and can do well.[These … Continue reading I Want to Work for a Great Company
DollarDays is an innovative online wholesale distributor on a mission to level the playing field for growing businesses. By taking manufacturing and distribution to the digital marketplace, the site provides small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and nonprofits with the economic security necessary to take on the challenges of 21st-century entrepreneurship. SMEs have always been the … Continue reading Supporting the Free Market, Empowering Small Businesses
There are 28 million small businesses in the United States, according to the [U.S. Small Business Administration, or] SBA. [These businesses] created 63% of new private-sector jobs [last year] and [account for] 42% of private-sector payroll[s]. Headlines are grabbed by young entrepreneurs who are starting high-tech companies, but, in reality, people over 50 own 51% of … Continue reading Is Small Business for Me?
While writing a good press release is more of an art than a science, there are some tried-and-true strategies that work. To help your next press release land media coverage, we’ve compiled 40 examples of actual press releases that were able to successfully garner publicity. We’ll take a look at each and provide you with … Continue reading Top 40 Press Release Examples from the Pros
The Crunch: Buying wholesale and bulk goods used to be difficult for small retailers, especially those without the big budgets larger businesses wield. DollarDays, a premier online wholesale distributor and closeout company, extends "the same kind of buying power" to small businesses and nonprofits by buying in bulk themselves and selling products affordably from their inventory. Clients can buy single cases of … Continue reading DollarDays Supersizes the Buying Power for Nonprofits, Small Businesses