Category: Advice
Steps to Get Back to Work and End the Year Strong
In August, the slow, quiet, feeling of summer fills the air in many offices around the world. Each week a different team member is on vacation, some offices have “Summer Fridays,” and motivation seems lacking. In many parts of the country, it’s HOT, which makes most people sluggish and want to be anywhere but inside…
Evalutate These Metrics for Small Business Success
Evaluate These Metrics for Your Small Business Growth In July, our blog focused a lot of on attention on different areas and metrics small business owners can use to measure their business. At OnDeck, to say we’re metrics obsessed is an understatement. This applies to how we approach our business in general as well as…
Increase Your Bottom Line: Evaluate Your Online Presence
Evaluate Your Business’ Online Presence to Grow Your Profits Each year, as more of your customers spend more time online, your business’ online presence becomes increasingly important. The hardest part about building your online presence is the ever-changing rules and best practices of the digital world. The best practices that worked last year, let alone…
Strategic Borrowing Benefits to Increase Your Loan Options
Increase Your Loan Options with Strategic Borrowing Without adequate capital, it’s difficult for small businesses to grow and thrive. This is true whether you fund your business through cash flow, investment, or borrowing. Taking a strategic approach to meeting your business’ need for capital to fuel growth and fund any other ROI-generating activities will ensure…
A Guide to Managing Your Cash Flow…From A Dentist
Managing Your Cash Flow is Critical to Success: Even A Dentist Agrees When you visit your dentist (twice a year) you might not think about how they run their business. Neither did we, but we learned that it’s not as easy as finishing dental school and putting out an “open for business” sign. Dino and…
5 Tips to Evaluating Your Small Business Social Media Marketing
5 Tips to Evaluating Your Small Business Social Media Marketing When was the last time you evaluated your small business’s social media marketing strategy? With 2017 halfway through, it’s a good a time as any to take a look back, assess, and see where you can make some improvements to end the year on a…
Looking Back at Your Business Goals in the Summer is a Good Idea
Why Making a Business Goal Pivot in the Summer is a Good Idea for Any Small Business Owner By Lisa Hendrickson I run workshops for entrepreneurs. I asked a classroom full of entrepreneurs last week if they remembered what their goals were from the first of the year. I hear apprehensive laughter from the room. Then I…
Financial Metrics Every Small Business Owner Needs to Know
Financial Metrics You Should Know to Run Your Small Business Understanding your business’ financial metrics, and what those numbers are telling you, is critical to running a successful business, knowing whether or not your business is profitable, or waking up one day to find out you’re on the slow march to insolvency and going out of business.…
Your Complete Guide to the Remote Workforce in 2017
The Ultimate Work/Life Balance Goal: Your Employee and Employer Guide to the Remote Workforce. Telecommuting and the remote workforce has been growing since technology has begun to transform our lives. Along with transformations in technology, we’ve seen the adoption of the remote workforce by mainstream employers with a mountain of stats and information that back up…
Your Employees Work/Life Balance is Good for Business
Facilitating a Healthy Work/Life Balance for Your Employees is Good for Business I spent the earliest years of my career sweeping the warehouse floor and stocking shelves in my Father’s small business. As a teenager, he taught me how to do a good job and exemplified the mantra, “Anything worth doing is worth doing well.”…
Running a Seasonal Business: BuddhaLicious
Living the Dream, Running a Successful Seasonal Business An Interview with Todd Bryant, Owner of BuddhaLicious Todd Bryant has had a more exciting life than most. He spent his childhood and early adulthood traveling around the US and internationally. His passion has always been food, and he’s been cooking since he was a little kid.…
Actionable Tips to Managing Your Resources Wisely
Managing Your Business Resources Managing resources is a challenge for many small business owners, but if you’re at all like I was, I believed I had a better handle on things that I did in reality. That’s not to say I was a disaster, but rather, hindsight being what it is, I can see lots…
Delegation: Your Key to Working Smarter
What Can Small Business Owners Do to Work Smarter, Not Harder? Delegate. As a small business advocate, I always try to find interesting topics or issues to write about that appeal to as many business owners as possible. One area I consistently see small business owners struggle with is delegation. Learning to delegate is possibly the…
Why Business Owners Should Take a Break & How to Do It
Give Yourself a Break! It’s Just Good Business. According to this OnDeck study, only 57% of small business owners take a vacation during the year. If there is one thing in this world that I am certain of it is that business owners never truly turn off. You may look like you’re “taking a break” or…
How to Manage a Better Work-Life Balance this Summer
Rev Up Your Work-Life Balance! Get Yourself & Your Business Ready for Summer. For small businesses, the summer months can be the busiest and most profitable. As demand during the peak summer season increases, you probably find yourself struggling to find a good balance between managing your business and making time to enjoy summer nights with…