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What Is a Certificate of Deposit? Understanding the Basics and Benefits
Calculator: Gross Profit Break-Even
Breaking even at the Gross Profit level is a major step towards financial sustainability. Continue reading
Growing Your Business: Ways to Identify New Markets and Customers
The better you know your target customer, the better you’ll be able to find more customers that fit the profile. Continue reading
Protecting Your Business: Protecting Your Business From Theft and Fraud
Protection from theft and fraud is down to being proactive, prepared, and having good systems in place to both discourage and detect theft and fraud Continue reading
Protecting Your Business: Identity theft and reputational fraud
Identity theft happens when someone uses information about you without your permission. Continue reading
Growing Your Business: Building and improving capacity
Don’t be afraid to expand your operations if there’s enough demand to justify it. Continue reading
Growing Your Business: Sure-Fire Marketing Plan in Eight Easy Steps
Spend time finding out about your customers’ preferences and habits, to help you focus your promotions more effectively. Continue reading
Growing Your Business: Six numbers to track growth
Use sales data to identify what your best customers are buying, think of other products or services that could be sold with them, and tailor special offers to bring these customers in more often. Continue reading
Growing Your Business: Creating a smart promotion plan
Keep your objectives short and measurable to help evaluate whether your promotional plan is working or not and be prepared to drop anything that doesn’t work for those tactics that do. Continue reading
Managing Your Business: Improving your profit margin
Get in the regular habit of reviewing your margins to make sure they haven’t changed due to creeping input costs or sales discounts. Continue reading
Managing Your Business: Five strategies to increase profit
Keep up-to-date with any industry trends, ideas or technologies that may lower your costs or make your business more efficient. Continue reading