Sentences with phrase «on small business needs»

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Small companies keep innovation at the very heart of their goings - on, using it to propel their business into the limelight, yet at the same time remaining sensitive to the needs and wants of their consumers.

Twenty percent of small business owners relied on credit cards and business earnings to finance their credit needs.

If you are a small - business owner with immigrants on your staff, here's what you need to do to protect your workers and your business from the special challenges these new enforcement policies present.

Depending on where you're located (for example, a medical transport business in downtown Boston where there are numerous large medical facilities opposed to a small town in southern Indiana) will dictate whether you can do this business yourself or need employees.

Growing your small business can be a big ask, especially since you still need to keep your fledgling enterprise on track while finding and bringing new employees up to speed.

With so many options out there for small businesses, you need a coach / a manager / a guide to lead you through the trenches so you are getting the best marketing return on your investment.

And at small companies, where every single employee needs to pull their weight to move the business along, it can feel like nailing Jell - O to a wall and then trying to balance a cat on it.

If your small business relies on vehicles to deliver products or services to customers, you need to do everything you can to ensure those vehicles are running efficiently.

New business - focused technologies are coming to market each and every day, and for small and start - up businesses in particular these advancements provide a much needed lifeline to reduce overheads, boost bottom lines and streamline management on a short and long term basis.

In response to these two needs left unsatisfied by many small business owners, I am responding by 1) getting experts opinions on how to select a graphic designer, and 2) interviewing the owner of a notable PR firm on an upcoming live interview.

Dig Deeper: Choosing the Limited Liability Company as Your Corporate Form Case Study: Why an S Corp Might Be the Better Choice While Turner's story is a compelling one for a smaller, lifestyle business, the truth is that fast - growing businesses that plan to bring on investors or share the ownership of the company with employees may need to consider making the switch to an S corp sooner rather than later.

The Affordable Care Act has obviously put enormous strains on some small businesses, so their needs need to be evaluated in any restructuring, while also still making sure that healthcare is widely available to all entrepreneurs and their employees.

To ring in the New Year, small businesses need to start off on the right foot.

Immigration policy, from potential burdens of reporting and verification to visa needs for highly skilled positions, are also critical to small business owners, as is Dodd - Frank's impact on lending to small business.

In addition, the study determined that the last time the small business owners surveyed had needed funds, 62 percent had withdrawn personal savings, 22 percent had used business credit cards, 24 percent had used their personal credit cards and 10 percent had relied on family and friends.

Average consumers and small businesses, on the other hand, need to trust lenders in order to do business with them.

The reality, however, is that these on - demand platforms are doing a great job at supplying needed work to the unskilled workforce (i.e., delivery, transportation, etc.), however for skilled small business owners («SMBs»)-- like in the home services sector — the jobs are low paying and the clients are «owned» by the platforms themselves.

It all depends on the needs of the particular small business.

But the truth is, small businesses are nimble and act swiftly on their current needs, not the economists» or the media's predictions about their workload.

OnPay doesn't have all the tools and add - ons that Intuit offers, but in exchange, it provides a simple pricing model with the straightforward payroll necessities that especially small small businesses need.

All this is done through Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and small businesses need to get on the train because it is leaving the station.

«There are over 12 million small businesses using Facebook, and if you do the basics of updating your page, it is a low - cost, rich visual presence in mobile without needing a mobile website,» says Matt Idema, the director of monetization product marketing for Facebook, who focuses on small businesses and their use of Facebook pages.

Where the Small Business Scorecard is concerned, the good hiring news really needs to be tempered with the fact that we continue to see more and more reliance on independent contractors — workers without company - paid benefits and matching FICA taxes, and people who can't always count on their employment continuing.

To survive the robot invasion, small businesses need to maximize consumer reliance on these innate human abilities, as well as highlight them within their company's products and services.

The SBA's various loan programs have provided needed funding for thousands of small enterprises who were unable to secure loans from lending institutions on their own; indeed, businesses can not solicit loans from the SBA unless they are unable to get funding independently.

«The average small business doesn't need to worry so much about SEO or spending money on a web consultant.

«Focus on the related needs of your already established market or on market segments with similar needs and characteristics,» Canadian small business expert Susan Ward wrote.

Small - business owners speak out on the tax reforms they need as they review the tax bill released by the GOP on Thursday.

Ted Mallett, VP and chief economist at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, says the difference for common household goods like detergent and diapers is largely due to the fact that retailers need higher margins in the smaller Canadian market; there are no tariffs on most items like these.

In fact, it may well have hurt, since the higher taxes needed to pay for those programs have placed an unnecessary and punitive burden on small and medium - sized businesses, which, in turn, have stifled their ability to hire workers.

And goes on to suggest that to combat jerk behavior at its root, organizations, whether they be schools or small business, need to explicitly celebrate the weird:

One of the most recognized names in small business accounting, QuickBooks offers both desktop and online versions (depending on the needs of your company and the experience of your team members), you may prefer one over the other.

Today's web - based small - business 401 (k) platforms and online tools eliminate the need for costly on - site representatives and plan education.

LegalZoom has some fantastic tools for small businesses, allowing owners to save money on the reams of documents they need to file in starting or managing a business.

«Start - ups, entrepreneurs and small - business owners may not have the capital to purchase a 3 - D printer on their own, but they may have a need to show prototypes to their current and potential customers,» said Michelle Van Slyke, vice president of marketing at UPS, in a statement.

What's more, the majority of small - business owners are planning to sustaining or growing their business over the next year, and 31 percent plan on hiring more employees, while 56 percent anticipate their staffing needs will remain consistent.

The problem is that many small - business owners don't have the tools they need to determine if one unprofitable client is worth nurturing for a big payday down the road, or if they should say, «Sorry, I can no longer work with you,» and move on.

A number of small businesses focus on providing new hires with only the basic information and skills needed to perform their job.

For the funding she needed, she relied on another small business — a firm called Kaleo Construction — to prop her up until her company could stand on its own.

I also hosted an in - person Social Media Marketing workshop in New York City in which I provided the hands - on help many small business owners need to translate these strategies into action.

«Small businesses need to focus on the people - and - process side of mobile security,» says Sean Ginevan, director of business development for Mountain View, Calif. - based enterprise mobility management provider MobileIron.

CVS and Walgreens targets mass market drugs, but if we could manage small communities of people who need these rare drugs that come with very specific directions on storage and usage, we thought we could help a lot of people and our business could survive.

Solo - entrepreneurs and small businesses were quickly identified as the people who needed their customer the most, so they focused their entire business on that demographic.

Finding clients was easy: The slumped economy fostered creation of the smallest businesses, such as individuals selling items on eBay and Etsy, who needed to keep track of myriad small payments with slight margins.

The bottom line for small businesses, especially start - ups, is to focus on those strategies that are at the lowest rungs of the ladder and then gradually move your way up as needed.

Depending on how the company is established and how many employees / investors there will be, a small business startup often creates an LLC because this helps it avoid double taxation and can still support multiple classes of stock if needed.

Business owners didn't see the need to celebrate every small step on the way to making a sale, which is exactly what the salespeople craved.

Small businesses that need to keep a closer eye on return on time investment could set some parameters on how the time is used, or alternatively set up some kind of ranking of pain points that need solving within the business, with an incentive system for coming up with solutions.

Most small - business owners know they need to be on Facebook, but it's not always as simple as it sounds.

As I was looking on line for a small business loan, my husband was reading the sport page and came across your article and could not believe what he was reading, that you would be helping people in need, like us.