Sentences with phrase «business of doing their business»

Looking ahead to May 8, a professional workshop series for small business enterprises, will help owners get down to the business of doing business.

``... whenever a government wants to get into the business of doing business, they've got to be mindful that, first of all, they are not applying their personal funds.

Not exact matches

«Because if the purpose of the small business corporate structure is to encourage small business to grow and also grow the economy, then a lot of small businesses aren't doing that.»

Coyne noted that Morneau did little to address the root of the problem, which is the wide gap between the small - business tax rate and individual rates.

These hires generally fail miserably, because the new person doesn't have the requisite energy and enthusiasm, isn't comfortable with the rest of the employees, starts off by criticizing the way the entrepreneurs runs the business, or is just way too focused on financial and compensation issues.

The notoriously private trio co-own but don't actively manage the maker of M&M's and Milky Way bars, which their grandfather started in 1931 as a confectionary business in his kitchen in Tacoma, Washington.

Effective time management involves planning the amount of time spent you spend on all of the tasks of running a business — and your personal life — to get things done in the most effective and productive manner.

This program, with the creation of the accompanying Growth Plan has revolutionized how I do business at my spa.

Denton seems relieved and pleased to embark on a new way of doing business, albeit with an outsider sitting in one of the company's five board seats.

This man's ground breaking expedition had nothing to do with business at all, but it illustrates the true essence of an entrepreneurial venture perfectly.

Systems are very important, however, the first thing we would do when taking over a business would be to understand its Human Capital - we need to know what type of people we have in the organization.

The next day, all of her employees quit because they didn't believe she could run the business and maybe didn't want to work for a woman.

Nowadays, while I still think much more could be done to encourage entrepreneurship in education, there are lots of tools and mentors to help you get started in business.

A business plan is a written description of your business's future, a document that tells what you plan to do and how you plan to do it.

You can stand to expose some of your «trade secrets» when it comes to process; it's the way you do business that makes you unique.

To start, he needed both people and funds — futuristic home doodads don't invent themselves — so he secured $ 12.5 million in subordinated debt financing from the Business Development Bank of Canada and Quebec's Fonds de solidarité FTQ, with flexible five - year payment terms (the latter a reward for years of solid financial management).

Early in any discussion, they will note that settling in Canada isn't really about selling stuff to the folks of Bathurst or Brandon; rather, it's about doing business in Boston or Buffalo or anywhere else in the United States, but without the hassle of obtaining a green card.

And while Lewis is certainly the most gifted business storyteller of his generation (sorry, Malcolm Gladwell), that doesn't make him the best business journalist.

Despite not doing traditional business development in the form of cold calling, Mark, in fact, monetizes his business through what he refers to as «authority,» or being viewed as an industry expert through his own blog and social media content which he says creates an emotional connection with potential clients.

(How many business cards like those do you have laying around, for which you can't even put a face to the name of the person you met?

Donald Trump's plan calling for six weeks of mandatory paid leave for new moms is a step toward wooing women voters and a step up from current federal law — which doesn't require companies to provide any paid leave — but it's still behind the times for the business world.

«I don't want people to think this is only a land of big business,» says Scott Carlberg, manager of the Carolinas» Nuclear Cluster.

I have a pair of to - do lists — one personal, one business — and each features three columns: manageable that - day tasks, non-urgent demands to get to the next day and projects on the horizon.

Mr. Guillebeau has many points to make, but I will sum up a few of them below: You don't need a lot of money to start a business.

If half of businesses fail in the first five years, what are the other half doing right and what can entrepreneurs learn from them?

And with good reason; millions of entrepreneurs and businesspeople have embraced the idea that carving out a slice of an existing market can certainly be effective, but finding new opportunities — finding blue oceans — is even better, since those gains don't have to come at the expense of other businesses or other people.

It's just that he got so busy that he didn't realize how much time had gone by where he had not checked in with several of his contacts — an easy mistake for most small business owners who feel like every day is shorter than the last.

«They don't have to feel like they're sick,» Danya Glabau, Intrommune's director of medical affairs, told Business Insider.

Don't worry whether you're «qualified enough» — most of the ideas are about building businesses in landscaping, car detailing or graphics design -; all businesses designed to cashflow.

Businesses with more than 50 employees that do not offer coverage will be taxed based on the size of their payrolls, but the cost will be significantly less than the cost of providing insurance benefits, and the tax is not set to go into effect until the 2014 fiscal year.

Before the Senate passed the bill, Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana, spoke of a small - business owner on the waiting list who told the senator she'd have to lay off 27 workers if she did not obtain new financing.

They typically react (slowly at best) to three outside drivers: (a) their competition brings a new offering to market, and they need a quick competitive response; (b) their customers see and begin to adopt new processes and solutions, and the customers demand that their products and services conform to the new ways of doing business; or (c) they see a new tool, product, or service in the market offered by a new player and they quickly determine that this is a game - changer which they need to own (rather than try to build themselves) because they lack the internal capacity to do otherwise.

Don't undercut so much that you run yourself into debt or out of business.

The social media findings are based on a December 2009 telephone survey of 500 small businesses, compared to one done in December 2008.

But one of her key findings has held up: The bank, called Pilatus Bank, did depend for much of its business on the Azeri elite.

If you're not OK with that, you'll need to find someone to do that part of the business for you.

The Small Business Success Index, as it's called, is the third in a series of surveys the pair have done over the past year.

Beyond this sense of optimism, seven out of 10 business owners said they fared the same or better than they did a year ago in the fourth quarter.

If nothing else, you need to know when people are mentioning your business, liking it, sharing it and blogging about it.There are plenty of apps out there that do just that so there's no excuse for staying in the dark.

So, there's a tremendous amount of standard business wisdom about how you need to have an elevator pitch, a small nugget that will encapsulate what it is you do with the amount of time it takes to pitch your business to a theoretical once - in - a-lifetime investor in a chance elevator encounter.

Of course, all of this is moot if you have a business that can afford to hire employees to do everything you don't particularly enjoy doinOf course, all of this is moot if you have a business that can afford to hire employees to do everything you don't particularly enjoy doinof this is moot if you have a business that can afford to hire employees to do everything you don't particularly enjoy doing.

Giving your business a personality and a sense of individuality is something which amazon simply can't do because of its size.

If you want to grow your business and get things done, the time management tips below should help you to stay ahead of potential problems.

«If you ask how they're doing,» Will says, «most entrepreneurs will say, «Things are great,» or, «We're crushing it,» and maybe for 1 percent of businesses, that's true.

When traditional ways of doing business are no longer relevant it only makes sense to adopt new ways to measure the ROI of our marketing efforts.

This country is now the top provider of business process outsourcing to U.S. companies, and that business will do even better if the U.S. dollar and U.S. wages rise.

«It's about the ease of doing business — I put my inventory on Apex's system, and half an hour later I have sales coming in,» says Snyder, who works for Soma Colorado.

If you're a recent grad freelancing as a web designer, and you find out that you don't enjoy doing it, you don't have to go through the pain of laying off employees and closing a business.

The wind is at our back in terms of the quality of the business, the equity of the brand, how we're doing in China.

«As a matter of fact, for those of you who are still using email, one of the things that I've done in my business is I've said, «If you talk about somebody in the company on email to me, then copy them on it,»» she says.