Pros and Cons of a Home Office

Posted on Apr 20, 2017 Pros Cons Convenience for you Time flexibility Lower start-up costs You can write off a portion of your home operating expenses Cost savings on child care You can be more casual No commute You determine [...]

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Taking Advantage of Cash Discounts

Posted on Mar 16, 2017 When a supplier agrees to extend credit to your business, one of the things you’ll need to negotiate are credit terms. These terms spell out how long you have to pay. We outlined some of [...]

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Business Structures

Posted on Mar 09, 2017 Business Structures When a person decides they want to open their own business, they need to determine what type of structure it’s going to take. Will it be an unincorporated business or an incorporated company? Not too difficult!  [...]

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Accounts Payable

One of the cheapest forms of financing available to your small business is credit from your suppliers. This is known as trade credit. Trade credit is a buy now/pay later arrangement between a buyer (your company) and a seller (your [...]

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How to Pick an Accountant

Posted on Jan 26, 2017 I was at a small business seminar recently where the speaker asked “Who here loves their accountant? Only one person raised their hand. Yikes. While the speaker didn’t ask why nobody else raised their hand, [...]

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Square Up – Mobile Point-of-Sale

Posted on Dec 07, 2015 (HappyBoss.com has no affiliation with Square – we think it’s a really great tool and want to share!) ou’ve likely seen their ads during the past few years, and have wondered what the catch is [...]

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Dialing for Dollars – Part 1 of 2

Posted on Jun 26, 2015 Collection$ - Dialing for Dollar$ Part 1 of 2 In a perfect world, customers would pay their invoices without you ever having to pick up the phone and request payment. Wow….that would be nice wouldn’t [...]

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Dialing for Dollars – Part 2 of 2

Posted on Jun 26, 2015 Collection$ - Dialing for Dollar$ Part 2 of 2 Every business has 2 or 3 suppliers that they’ll pay lickity-split. They do this so when they want to open an account someplace else, they’ll be [...]

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- Jim Rohn
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You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money
into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.
- Tom Hopkins
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The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule,
but to schedule your priorities.
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A man should never neglect his family for business.
- Walt Disney
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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that
automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency.
The second is that automation applied to an inefficient
operation will magnify the inefficiency.
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they have planned for you? Not much.
- Jim Rohn
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it’s who is going to stop me.
- Ayn Rand
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Give yourself something to work toward, constantly.
- Mary Kay Ash
Slide Although your customers won’t love you
if you give bad service, your competitors will.
- Kate Zabriskie
Slide If you want to make a permanent change,
stop focusing on the size of your problems and start
focusing on the size of you!
- T. Harv Eker
Slide Merely satisfying customers will not be enough to earn
their loyalty. Instead, they must experience exceptional service
worthy of their repeat business and referral. Understand the factors
that drive this customer revolution.
- Rick Tate
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
- B. C. Forbes
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
Slide There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in
the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending
his money somewhere else.
- Sam Walton
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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi
Slide Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
- Sam Levenson
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them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante
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Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug.
- Mark Knopfler
Slide Quality in a service or product is not what
you put into it. It is what the client or
customer gets out of it.
- Peter Drucker
Slide Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down
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- Greg King
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- Miles Kington
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