If you have employees, you probably also have a process to help them understand how they are doing on their job performance. There’s a new trend in large companies to kill the annual performance review and replace it with continuous, instant feedback as well as a tool called an after-action review. After-Action Review An after-action review (AAR) is a fantastic process to help you look back at a project or period of your business to…

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Online marketing is a large component of marketing for many small businesses.  There are many aspects to online marketing that you’ll want to consider for your business.  Here are just five for your consideration. Content Marketing Content marketing is huge, and it consists of generating articles, blog posts, social media updates, white papers, videos, and other educational materials about your company’s products and services. Content marketing provides your prospects with something to read, watch, or…

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Social media is an awesome marketing tool, but it can also be a huge time drain. If you post regularly, or want to post regularly, and use multiple social media platforms, such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google+, then an app like Hootsuite can save you a tremendous amount of time. Hootsuite allows you to schedule social media updates or posts across multiple platforms. If you are posting in real time, logging on several times…

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Before we get too far into 2017, let’s take a look back at 2016 results and five meaningful numbers you may want to discover about your business’s performance.  To start, grab your 2016 income statement, or better yet, give us a call to help you compute and interpret your results. Revenue per Employee This number measures a company’s productivity with regard to its employees and is relevant and meaningful for all industries.  If you have…

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If there is a period of time between when your customers receive your goods or services and when they pay for them, then several things are true: You have a balance in Accounts Receivable on your balance sheet that represents how much customers owe you You have an invoice process that you follow You have granted credit to customers You may have some that don’t pay as quickly as you’d like them to Each invoice…

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