Words of Wisdom
I am sure that like me many of you have read these words before, but there are some things that cannot be shared too often. If you do not remember the context it was just before his retirement in July...
View ArticleHow to Overcome the Ten Biggest Mistakes in Decision Making
I recently came across this article written by LeAnn Thieman (author of many “Chicken Soup” books, including Chicken Soup for the Soul) and thought I would share it with you. Over the years I remember...
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Seven Simple But Awesome Social Media Tips To Grow Your Business
One of the most repeated themes any business consultant hears from their small business clients these days is how much they’d like to be more involved in social media channels, but they just don’t...
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How To Get Great WOM Referrals For Your Small Business
It’s Friday night. Four friends are talking about their week. One says they are feeling overwhelmed with all the aspects of running their small business and what they really need is to outsource some...
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3 Easy Steps Guaranteed to Help You Dominate in Email Marketing
The options for marketing your small business continue to grow, but realistically, it’s hard for any one of them to be more effective than email marketing. Looking at studies reported by the Direct...
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How to Take (or Make) More Time to Work on Your Business
When you run your own small business, you work on average at least 20 hours more than the paid employee who works a designated shift five days a week and calls it quits. That’s understandable, you...
View ArticleHiring New Team Members: Fit or Skill, Which is Most Important?
Building a team can be a fun and challenging experience. Like putting together a puzzle, you have to find the right pieces. In this video, Steve shares his thoughts on hiring and building a winning...
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Craft Your Amazing Newsletter In Just 15 Minutes a Month
It would be hard to find a more cost-effective way to stay in touch and build your relationships with your customers than offering them a regular newsletter. Clearly a lot of companies are aware of...
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How to Stay Focused When Business Slows Down
No matter what business you are in, there will be often be times when the pace changes, sometimes as predicted, sometimes not. Occasionally, the change is to become more frantic, and other times it...
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When is it Time to Incorporate Your Business?
To Incorporate or not to Incorporate? That is the question. For most small businesses, the question of if and when the company should be incorporated is one that should be considered at regular...
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The Benefits Of Hiring A Bookkeeping Firm Over A Solo Bookkeeper
At some point in their evolution every small business owner realizes their company has grown to the point where bookkeeping assistance is needed. At that point the tendency is often to search online...
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What’s the Difference Between a Bookkeeper and an Accountant
For many small business owners, in fact most laypersons outside of the world of business and finance, the terms bookkeeper and accountant blend into a hazy configuration of people who handle the...
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How to Stop Making Stupid Business Decisions
Reading Time: 4 minutesSeveral times each year at AIS Solutions, we get a shock when new clients show up with their financial data a disorganized mess.Receipts are crumpled into plastic bags or jammed...
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Practical Tips to Improve Your Cash Flow
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere are a number of reasons why your company may be struggling with cash flow issues, and many of them have little connection with how much business you are doing and how...
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How to Handle Both Good and Bad Customer Reviews
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe last time you booked accommodations online, did you read the reviews?If you are a stranger in a community and planning to dine out, when you call up the restaurants in your...
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Four Strategies to Keep Your Customers and Increase Profits
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat is the simplest strategy your business can adopt to increase your profits by 25 percent this year?You can keep your current customers happy.According to Fred Reichheld, a...
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Attention: Entrepreneurs – Rethink Your Mainstream Attitude about Compliance
Reading Time: 4 minutesNo matter where you operate your small business in Canada or the United States, there are government standards of compliance required that govern everything from the kind of...
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What to Do When Your Instant Message Goes Horribly Wrong
Reading Time: 5 minutesEmail was the original goddess of instant information transfers, so gloriously easy that it is little wonder it quickly became a primary communication mode between businesses and...
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Ten Things Rembrandt Taught Us About Brands That Last
Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you ask anyone you encounter to name one of the 10 greatest artists of all time, inevitably they will name Rembrandt.What is amazing about that is that next year we will be...
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Is It Time To Add a Podcast To Your Business Marketing Plan?
Reading Time: 4 minutesFrom broadcasts to podcasts in a couple of decades, the simple reality is that businesses still want to get their spoken message out on the airways to their target audience. Only...
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