How Giving Back Moves Your Company Forward
When you run a small business, the day-to-day challenges and sales and production targets often keep you so occupied that the only time you really think about taxes is when they are due.
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Practical Tax Advice To Save Small Business Owners Money
When you run a small business, the day-to-day challenges and sales and production targets often keep you so occupied that the only time you really think about taxes is when they are due.
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Is It Time To Add a Podcast To Your Business Marketing Plan?
From broadcasts to podcasts in a couple of decades, the simple reality is that businesses still want to get their spoken message out on the airways to their target audience. Only the method and venue has changed. The “podcast” got its name from Ben Hammersley who suggested a whole range of names for the new […]
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Ten Things Rembrandt Taught Us About Brands That Last
If you ask anyone you encounter to name one of the 10 greatest artists of all time, inevitably they will name Rembrandt. What is amazing about that is that next year we will be marking the 350th anniversary of the Dutch artist’s death. Talk about a brand that has lasting power! There isn’t a marketing […]
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What to Do When Your Instant Message Goes Horribly Wrong
Email was the original goddess of instant information transfers, so gloriously easy that it is little wonder it quickly became a primary communication mode between businesses and their customers. Just as we were accepting that legal documents could be scanned in and emailed, we were getting used to still faster forms of communication like Messenger […]
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Attention: Entrepreneurs – Rethink Your Mainstream Attitude about Compliance
No matter where you operate your small business in Canada or the United States, there are government standards of compliance required that govern everything from the kind of financial records you need to keep to how you produce and measure certain products and services, what you pay your employees, and how you create a safe […]
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Four Strategies to Keep Your Customers and Increase Profits
What is the simplest strategy your business can adopt to increase your profits by 25 percent this year? You can keep your current customers happy. According to Fred Reichheld, a fellow of Bain & Company and author of Loyalty Rules! How Today’s Learners Build Lasting Relationships, suggests that across a wide range of businesses, when […]
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How to Handle Both Good and Bad Customer Reviews
The last time you booked accommodations online, did you read the reviews? If you are a stranger in a community and planning to dine out, when you call up the restaurants in your area, do you base your choice on the comments past customers have left online about it? If you do, you are not […]
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Practical Tips to Improve Your Cash Flow
There are a number of reasons why your company may be struggling with cash flow issues, and many of them have little connection with how much business you are doing and how successfully you are doing it. Sometimes it is a simple matter of having your payables due before your receivables. If you have to […]
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How to Stop Making Stupid Business Decisions
Several times each year at AIS Solutions, we get a shock when new clients show up with their financial data a disorganized mess. Receipts are crumpled into plastic bags or jammed into the proverbial shoeboxes. Yes, shoeboxes are real. 🙂 When they tell us why they have finally sought bookkeeping and accounting assistance to organize […]
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