This is a contribution by Kevin Kerridge - the Director of small business insurance at Hiscox, a global insurance company with 100+ years of experience. Business Insurance is literally a future promise to pay if your business suffers a financial loss or hardship due to a cause covered by the policy you’ve purchased. While the… Continue Reading
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Category Archives: Operations
5 Security Tips For Small Businesses
In countless ways, the internet and mobile devices have flattened the world for small businesses. No longer do you need a big IT department to have access to time saving and stimulating productivity and creative tools; just load up a cloud-based tool and you’re good to go. There’s just one downside. The rise in reliance… Continue Reading
Think Small When Setting Business Goals
We will increase revenue by 10% next year. We will increase the average ticket sale by 15% this coming year. How many times have you set goals like these for your business? How many times have you actually reached them, or even remembered you set them by the time Summer came around? If you’re like… Continue Reading
VoIP and the Small Business: Getting off the Ground
Businesses all around the world are taking out the figurative scissors and cutting the cord to their telephone land lines in favor of a more cost-efficient alternative that capitalizes on the increased accessibility to high-speed internet connections. Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) has been steadily catching on ever since its advent in early 2004. While… Continue Reading
What Small Business Owners Need to Know About Insurance
As a small business owner, you no doubt have so many things to think about and important projects to manage on a daily basis that it can be easy to overlook insurance. Although having adequate insurance is vital when running a business, it is easy to get caught up in the day to day routine… Continue Reading
Buy or Lease? Spending Options for Your Small Business
When embarking on a small business, a sound mind and decisive attitude will serve you well. To say there are hundreds of decisions to make feels more like an absurd understatement. From your brand image to your customer service policies, your employee benefits to product packaging, the decisions you make will affect multiple aspects of… Continue Reading
Five Things Small Businesses Must Know About The Affordable Care Act
Small businesses will be one of the biggest groups affected by the Affordable Care Act and business owner still have a lot of questions about the new law. Time is running out for answers to these questions as enrollment in state health care exchanges is set to start on Oct. 1, 2013 for coverage beginning… Continue Reading
What Your Business Can Learn From Franchising
Franchises, you love them and you hate them. You hate them for creating a mediocre (not always so, see below), cookie cutter style of doing business, but you secretly thank them when you’ve been driving cross country in the car with the kids for the past 6 hours and spot those “Golden Arches” coming up… Continue Reading
