Good People Management Increases Your Profit
Most small businesses operate a tight ship. They manage overhead expenses and watch cost of sales to stay on the credit side of the ledger. But when you’ve reached a point where you cannot see any further ways to reduce costs, there could still be an opportunity to increase your profits through increasing productivity. Probably […]
3 Little Secrets – The Keys To Low Budget Marketing
Even in a downturn, if you don’t get in front of people and explain your unique value proposition then your chances of selling will be restricted to current customers or accidental passersby. Marketing is what sets you up for selling. However, there are three important things you should appreciate before you start. 1. Your target […]
QuickBooks 2010 – New Features
In QuickBooks you are able to sort the Pay Bills window four ways: Due Date, Discount Date, Vendor, and Amount Due. Now you can also Filter that screen for one vendor or multiple vendors. You no longer have to see every vendor you owe money to, in that window. Want to go paperless? You can, […]
Nine Easy Ways To Grow Your Marketing List
Target every new contact for follow up communications and watch customer loyalty – and your profits – grow. A good quality customer and prospect database for email or direct mail can mean the difference between business survival and failure, especially during times of slow growth. The same list, combined with smart communications, will make the […]
Be A Team Player in Your Business
Poor relationships within the team will always reflect on morale and have been proven to impact on the bottom line. You can make or break a career or a job depending on the way you behave with fellow workers. Workplaces need to be profitable for businesses and for the people in them – and that […]
Get On Top Of Business Forecasting
Want to stay in business and be profitable in this economic climate? The answer is to plan, but it is difficult to think in terms of three to five year plans these days. So focus instead on the next 12 to 18 months and use “what if” scenario planning and stress testing along the way. […]
What’s the difference between Invoices and Sales Receipts in QuickBooks?
They both record the same information: SALES. Invoices record sales on an accrual basis, sales receipts record sales on a cash basis. An invoice records the sale as income and increases accounts receivable, as of the date of the invoice, even though you haven’t received the PAYMENT for the sale. To complete the sale process […]
Avoid Cash Flow Woes with Good AR Management
Recent economic trends have caused many contractors and other businesses to deal with accounts receivable issues. Five years ago, when the economy was better as a whole, there was less concern with enforcing a contractual right to payment because bills were being timely paid. For those contractors dealing with collection issues, not much can be […]
In-Person Networking Works
Despite the benefits of online contact any time, from anywhere, personal interaction is as good for business now as it was 20 years ago. In the world away from your desktop, your competitors are shaking hands with your potential customers over lunch or a laugh right now. What are you waiting for? Get out of […]
What’s happening at Pro Painting Net?
Pro Painting Net started out as something. Now it’s evolving into something else. We started out creating well optimized mini-sites as an additional online presence to help painting contractors generate leads…and it’s working! Our page holders are getting ranked in Google and generating some leads: Here’s what one of our page holders had to say […]