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Seven Tips for Crafting the Perfect Elevator Pitch
For anyone with a young business, the elevator pitch is both extremely important and extremely short. It’s the nature of the pitch: detailed and interesting enough to hook the listener on your business, but short enough that it could last the duration of an elevator ride. Your elevator pitch can be a great way to [...]
Small Business Advice: Growing Out Your Product Line
If you want to grow your small business, it can help to expand your product or service line. Adding new products and services can benefit your customers and draw more revenue to your business. However, you don’t want to rush in with this decision. Make sure that you create a plan for growing your product [...]
Five Steps to Getting Your Family Finances in Order in 2014
Other than starting a new diet, the decision to tackle the family finances ranks near the top of all New Year’s resolutions. But while many people know that they need to save money, invest wisely and reduce their debt, few develop a comprehensive money management strategy to achieve these goals. The key to developing a [...]
Hiring Outside Professionals to Help Grow Your Business
As a business owner, you may at some point consider hiring outside professionals to help grow your small business. Whether that’s early on or further down the line, you will better understand the costs and benefits of bringing these professionals on board when you can anticipate who they are and when you might need them. [...]
Six Team Building Techniques for Your Small Business
You might be able to get your small business off the ground quickly with a clear entrepreneurial vision and exceptional work ethic. However, without commitment and loyalty from your staff, you could fall short of achieving your long-term business goals and never reach cruising altitude. Small business advice: Build a solid team “Success is really [...]
Financial and Tax Planning for the New Year
Financial and tax planning for the New Year are discussed on Ilyce Glink's radio show. Financial experts Virginia Savage McAlester, Steve Repak and Paddy Hirsch join Ilyce to discuss financial and tax planning for 2014 on the Ilyce Glink Show on December 22, 2013 on WSB Radio. Ilyce's show always contains various forms of financial and [...]
Retirement Tips: 21 Ways to Add to Your Emergency Fund
Planning for the worst while hoping for the best is essential for successful retirement planning. In addition to your retirement savings, it’s important to create an emergency fund that you can tap if you face a financial emergency now or in retirement. Retirement tips: How to build an emergency fund Nobody plans on a financial [...]
A Small Business Owner’s Guide to Finding a Business Coach
As you work to grow your small business, you may at some point feel stuck in a rut and unsure of how to get out. Luckily, whatever the issue—sales have plateaued, for example, or team morale is low—there are business coaches who specialize in helping small business owners propel themselves to the next level. So [...]
Tax Tips to Get You Ready for the 2014 Tax-filing Season
Normally, tax-filing season goes relatively smoothly for me, with the same clients procrastinating and missing the same items, year after year. But 2013 was quite different: I had some last-minute filers inform me right before the deadline that they had abandoned or sold several properties in 2012. I had less than two weeks to get adequate [...]
Avoid the Top Five Mistakes Every Small Business Owner Makes
If you’ve been pondering the idea of starting a small business for some time now, you’re not alone. According to the Small Business Administration (SBA), the number of small businesses in the U.S. has increased 49 percent since 1982, and small businesses have added 8 million new jobs since 1990. As you start and grow [...]