skip to Main Content

Dashboards to Drive Your Small Business

  • A dashboard offers an easy way to track key metrics related to your business
  • Tracking sales, return on investment, employee performance, and more
  • Factors to consider when creating your dashboards
continue

The Importance of Cash Flow and How to Calculate It

  • While entrepreneurs often focus on profitability, cash flow is arguably the more important consideration
  • The benefits of tracking how money is coming into your business and how it is being spent
  • Calculations involved in calculating and predicting cash flow
continue

The Action Plan: Making the Business Plan Happen

  • An action plan establishes a short-term effort to achieve the goals of a strategic action plan
  • Assembling a team, monitoring actions, creating a timetable, and other steps
  • Building in flexibility to account for unexpected circumstances
continue

Contingency Planning: Dealing with Surprise Disruptions

  • Disruptions ranging from natural disasters to the departure of key staff can impact your business
  • Creating a contingency plan to mitigate the scenarios you believe your business is most likely to face
  • How contingency planning can benefit your business
continue

Finding Reputable Suppliers and Service Providers

  • Any business depends in part on its relationship with suppliers and service providers
  • Finding reliable, competitively priced firms can be a lengthy process
  • Referrals, online directories, and other options for forming these relationships
continue

Housing Your Startup: Home, Garage, Rent, or Purchase?

  • Some businesses can be started up at the home, while others necessitate a commercial space
  • Understanding factors such as zoning rules, tax laws, and practicality when deciding whether to run a business out of the home
  • When it makes more sense to purchase a space rather than rent one
continue

Hiring Employees – Who? What? How?

  • Knowing where to start when making the challenging decision to hire employees
  • Tips for finding the best workers for the jobs you have available
  • Choosing which candidate you will make the offer to
continue

What Insurances Are Needed to Start a Business?

  • Any business is subject to risks that could wipe it out if adequate protections are not in place
  • The different types of business insurance available, and how to decide which one is right for you
  • Special considerations for business interruptions and home-based businesses
continue