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Bookkeeping and Good record keeping
Why does good book keeping mean good record keeping? We've talked many times previously about the importance of good record keeping to save money on your bookkeeping fees.

Copying Success: How Orfalea Turned Paper into Power
“Keep your nose in the window long enough, and they are going to let you in.” That is Orfalea’s advice to up and coming entrepreneurs; he got in and he has not looked back since. But how did his hyperactive dyslexic who flunked two grades in school turn his condition into a recipe for success?

Guerrilla Marketing Online
The truth about marketing online is that it doesn't do a thing for you unless you understand marketing. The key to success online is to know marketing.

Are You Shortening Yourself on Your Invoice

If you sell services, you may be working for free. When I’m working with self employed business owners who sell services, I nearly always find that they are not billing for some part of their work. That is, their invoices are missing what they could get paid. These lost billings can be the difference between making a living and having money for business and family security, expansion, and retirement.

Colonel Harland Sanders
Mazon Associates, Inc.'s featured entrepreneur of the month for July 2010's Building Bridges newsletter. Mazon is a family-owned factoring business in Irving, Texas (DFW Metroplex), which has been in business for over 30 years assisting businesses to finance their new and existing businesses by daily funding of our clients' business-to-business invoices.

Factoring Offers Hope for Companies Struggling with Cash Flow
Major companies have steadily increased the lag time in paying invoices which can stretch smaller firms significantly. Consider factoring, or selling off accounts receivables for instant cash. Factoring can help companies gear up for busy seasons or survive challenging times.

What will be the Future of Work?

In view of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), Time Magazine and others predict that future of our work life will be substantially different! I agree that it will be different, but since I have lived this new life for fifteen years, let me tell you that it is not bad. However, we will need to become one person incorporations that have a proven, certifiable, virally marketable set of skills. All brand development, marketing and sales will need to be done by ourselves and at our own expense.

Fixin' to Hunt Up Some Cash
If you need cash, whether for survival or to fund a new opportunity, where do you look? It's closer than you think.

Easing out of Recession not so Easy for Small Service Companies
Very recently, several of my clients have begun sharing that their sales have turned up over the last couple months. Yeah, finally! Since I talk to business owners every day, and no one has expressed that sales are getting worse, this constitutes a trend, albeit an unscientific one. But, hey, any good news brings a sigh of relief at this point.

Got Team?

As an entrepreneur, you wear a lot of hats in your business, don't you! You're smart. You know you need to have the right help so you can be super productive and profitable in your business and you are probably already outsourcing certain tasks and responsibilities. That's a great start. But let me ask you, how well is it working for you? Do you have an ideal team in place? Is it easy and almost effortless for you to work with your team and together create awesome results? Here's what I've discovered. Most entrepreneurs and business owners aren't having ideal experiences with creating their own strong team".

Seven Ways to Improve Cash Flow In Your Business
Business cash flow struggles? Here are 6 ways to speed up the cash coming into your business.

When The Customer Won't Pay

As the recession grinds on, more and more businesses and consumers are feeling the pinch. Some businesses and consumers are trying to solve their cash problems by paying their bills more slowly. And, unfortunately, bills from small businesses are often the ones that businesses and consumers think they can delay paying. That doesn't mean your business should accept this as a fact of business life. There are a number of steps you can take to collect outstanding receivables and to get customers to pay on time.

14 Ways to Collect Cash Faster
In this new era of difficult credit, cash is the life blood of your business. In this series of articles, we’ll look at bringing in cash faster, keeping cash longer, and increasing cash holdings.

A Documentation Strategy Unleashed
Every business must have a documentation system that is manageable. With a three part system in place, it would be difficult to go wrong.

'Check' This Tax and Business Strategy
Using simple strategies to help your business run as smoothly as possible is as simple as using the right checkbook. This strategy helps maintain efficiently and productivity for your business.

How to Take the Brrr out of Cold Calling
Is cold calling giving you the shivers? Maybe sharing of this experience may help you better understand how to take the Brr out of cold calling as you continue with your business building activities to increase sales.

Invoices To Finance ? Here’s The Best Method Of Factoring Financing In Canada For Accounts Receivable !
Information on confidential factoring financing for your firms account receivable investment . How it works and why the ability to turn those invoices into cash will generate cash flow and working capital for your firm .

Franchisees are Independent
It is important that those visiting or doing business with your franchisees know that the business is independently owned and operated.

How to Keep Your Financial Records Organized
Tips and strategies on financial organization

17 Ideas You Can Steal to Grow Your Business Without Spending Money.
In this article we're sharing what we call “ideas to steal”. They are all real-life ideas from successful businesses — action steps you can pick up and run with right away, without having to research, test or otherwise delay implementing. And, you don't need to spend money to do them.

Seven easy ways to promote a new product or service
Inexpensive ways for companies to promote their products and services.

Business-like Billing
Learning how to bill professionally is just as important as knowing how much to bill.

Spring Cleaning For Your Business.

Everyone has different workstyles. While some people are comfortable in chaos, others can't get anything done if one paperclip is out of place. No matter where you fall in the spectrum, the important thing to take into consideration is how it effects your customers, clients, and co-workers. Are THEY comfortable in your messes? If not, then these Spring Cleaning tips will help get you on the fast track to an orderly office and business.

Do you communicate effectively inside your company?
The customer has gone out the door; he has just placed a large forward order for delivery next march. Can you be sure that he will get what he expects? Is your internal communication up to scratch? This article gives you some tips. Your company is only as strong as its weakest link - but it is up to you to check the strength of them all regularly!

Business Card Marketing

Do you have a box of business cards on your desk that you hardly seem to put a dent in before the information changes and a new box is ordered? Or worse yet...are you still working on that same box of business cards that you printed 3 years ago! Business cards can be a great inexpensive marketing tool for a small business. They say exactly what you do and give people all the contact information they need to get a hold of you. Yet oddly enough we tend to use them only for networking, and even then, we aren't really sure if people are holding on to them.

Close the Funnel, Open the Tunnel to Win More Sales
Do you think of your leads as going into a funnel? Now is the time to switch that paradigm an embrace the 21st century strategy of a tunnel that works with relationship selling and education based marketing far better.

Bookkeeping to Keep Track of Your Business
Do you struggle with bookkeeping to keep track of your business? Many small business owners are so busy running the day to day tasks, that bookwork is left until last. Savvy business owners understands the importance of book-keeping to keep track of your business.

Autoresponders – Here’s Some More Unusual Uses For Them
You have probably heard about using autoresponders to set up ezines and sales pitches – but there are other just as profitable ways to use them. Here are just a few suggestions.

SWOT Analysis – Swot’s That And How Can It Make My Business More Profitable.
As an experienced business consultant, thought I would risk the wrath of my peers and show you how to use one of the consultant’s most powerful and useful tools – The SWOT Analysis. SWOT stands for Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats.

Getting Organized (An Entrepreneurs Dream)
Finding ways to organize our tasks and our surroundings is foremost on the minds of multi-tasking entrepreneurs. Organization and Time management are necessary aspects of doing business; and yet businesses often need a little push to get on the right track! SCORE offers a few tips.

Want to Check up on Your Bookkeeper?
How do you know if your bookkeeper is looking after you? Many business owners do not know if their bookkeeper is performing to expectations You may be too busy, or just do not understand about bookkeeping, to know whether or not your bookkeeper is doing the right thing until it is too late. Here are some points for you to follow up to ascertain if your bookwork is in order:

Free Yourself From Drudgery And Add £000's To Your Profits At The Same Time!

Like most people that go into business on their own, your number 1 priority is the product/service that you established their business to sell/provide. In the early stages of business all your energy is taken getting the business up and running and the records, apart from sales bits, will probably take a very back seat for a long time. The fact is that running a business in the early days involves so many hats for you to wear. You have to be the sales director, buyer, production department and quality control. You also have to become a receptionist, office clerk, helpdesk manager, operation manager, filing clerk, photocopy expert, letter writer, envelope stuffer and stamp licker. It is no surprise to anyone that the day to day bookkeeping gets overlooked!

How a Bookkeeper Can Help Your Cash Flow
Many small business owners struggle with keeping their bookwork up to date. Yet good record keeping is an essential part of any successful small business.How can you make an informed decision about your business if you don’t know where you are at financially with your business?

Bookkeeping for your small Business I
Bookkeeping set-up information

Bill, Baby, Bill
Here's a list of inexpensive online invoicing options for your business or freelance projects.

5 Ways To Get on Top of the Paperwork

The Wall Street Journal did a survey a few years ago and found that the 'average' white collar worker spends 6 weeks a year looking for things around their office. Do you have a huge challenge coping with the incoming paperwork? (Whatever happened to the paperless office?). Paperwork lands on your desk (or enters you 'in-box') and somehow finds its way into your in-tray. Eventually the in-tray becomes so high it explodes and ends up all over your desktop. That's because you avoided taking action on those messy pieces of paper the moment they arrived. Now you have no option but to sort through the explosion and tidy up the pile or actually do something with the paperwork.

The 80-20 Rule and Client Drama

The 80-20 Rule, AKA the Pareto Principle, states that “for many events, 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.” This can be observed in any volunteer organization, for example, a church, where 20% of the people do 80% of the work. In our eight-plus years of doing web development at Pelago, we have concluded that the inverse of this rule applies to client drama. That is, 80% of your negative experiences will be caused by 20% of your clients (and maybe even a smaller number like 5%). As a small business owner, how do you navigate this effect? You get tough.

How To Make The Most of Your Business Card
Business cards won't do you any good if you don't use them to your advantage. Here's how to make the most of your business card.

How To Make Your Dream List A Reality
How much would you be willing to pay for a list of people who need what you have — and know it — and who are so close to being ready to buy that they've already made the effort to contact you? Wouldn't that be worth a lot of money? Or maybe even invaluable? Well, you can have that list, for free. Here's how.

Small Business Interview Series Employee Benefits
Employee benefits are an important topic for many small business owners and managers. In the first installment of an ongoing series, I speak with benefits specialist Rachel von Sturmer, Principal at True Benefits Financial, about employee benefits best practices, trends and challenges.

Shout it from the rooftops?
Do you know the 3 most powerful words in Marketing? The 3 words that gain the most attention from your customers / prospects. The 3 words that most cause the customer / prospect to continue reading your marketing material and listening to your marketing message.

Planning the Sale of a Business
Preparation is key in the process, and taking a step back months in advance before selling to make the improvements to the business, will only increase your chances of selling your business.

MAXIMIZING RESULTS OF A BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS CAMPAIGN

With rising commodity prices, transportation/shipping costs, and dwindling capital access, chances are that you are asking your business–to-business customers to feel your pain in the form of price increases. And chances are good that your customers are starting to push back by reducing orders and lengthening the time they pay your invoices. While this is a basic business problem, you can help mitigate the potential rift in your customer relationships by increasing your communications to customers. Here are some recommendations.

How to make sure you get paid on time every time
In my business we have a rule. The rule goes something along the lines of: We do the work we get paid for doing the work. That’s it – no exceptions, no arguments. If on the rare occasion, someone isn’t happy with the work we do, we’ll look at this and go out of our way to sort it out, but this isn’t (in my book) an excuse not to pay.

Can You Afford To Be Too Busy?

Wouldn't it be great that every time someone sends you an invoice for their services/products you pay for it immediately? The cash is always sitting in your bank account and no matter what bills you receive you can always pay on time. The theory is if you're good at 'budgetting', you should be able to handle your 'cashflow'. So that leads me to this week's story. I had an outstanding payment for a supplier which was overdue. The only reason I hadn't paid it was the fact that I had a couple of queries about the work that had been done. Knowing that the business owner was disorganized in the way he ran his business, I wanted to check that everything on that invoice was correct. It wouldn't have surprised me if he had overcharged for work already paid for.

Top Qualities of Small Business Owners
Many people dream of owning their own business. The idea of getting rid of the boss, making your own hours, and doing something that you love is quite tempting, especially if you are burnt out from the corporate rat race.

Injecting Internet Marketing Into Your Marketing Mix
A website and online presence is one aspect of the marketing mix for a business. For the small to medium business, there is no reason for a website to be the sole method of marketing – but by integrating a website into your marketing plan you can drive new leads and generate new business that you wouldn't ordinarily reach using a single avenue of advertising.

Factoring Your Small Business Receivables
Over the years I have asked business owners, “What do you know of Factoring?” Many times the answer is “I have never heard of it”. For those who answered, “I know little about it”, this is for you, too. Factoring your small business receivables is when you sell your invoices. This is considered the sale of an asset at a discount.

How to Set up Effective Terms and Conditions Before you Sell on Credit

Setting up effective terms and conditions can be a challenge for many small business owners when they are formulating their payment infrastructure. Extending credit can be an effective small business strategy as it allows your business to establish customer loyalty and to increase sales with customers who would not do business with your company otherwise. Consider the following tips when you are setting up your small business terms and conditions:

Relief for Small Business Owners
What can a VA do for your business?

Why Factor?
Because this service has not been available, until recently, to small and medium sized companies, businesses should see this a positive ability to secure receivables financing, not as a problem with cash flow.

How well are your invoices working for you?
Many people fail to appreciate that the way they price, and the process of invoicing, is a marketing issue. Invoicing is a process that starts from the moment you first meet the client. Your numbers tell a story and you need a congruent and SIMPLE explanation to accompany them. Your invoices are about communication; be sure you communicate clearly.

QuickBooks Tip: Easily See the Accounting Entry Behind the Screen
QuickBooks is very user-friendly when it comes to entering invoices and paying bills. But what if you need to see how QuickBooks accounted for those invoices or bills? Good news - there is a quick and easy way to see the details of every accounting entry you make in QuickBooks. Try this tip to see just how easy it is.

Bookkeeping: Do you Pay From Invoice Or Statement
A common bookkeeping mistake made by many small business owners is to pay an invoice twice. When cash flow is tight, you want to do everything you can to ensure that you are not paying invoices twice - and one way of doing that is never to pay from a statement.

How Virtual Assistants Can Avoid Scope Creep
Do you know what's worse than a project that never starts? The one that never ends! A quagmire project is the stuff of service provider's nightmares - countless back-and-forth e-mails, ever-changing requirements, the potential for streams of complaints from all sides, and unpaid invoices.

Three Reasons Why Allied Health Staffing Agencies Should Factor Their Invoices
Check out the Three Reasons Why Allied Health Staffing Agencies Should Factor Their Invoices:

Tips For Using Attorney Billing Software To Improve Law Firm Collection Rates
Attorney billing software simplifies the process of creating invoices, but can help with collection as well. Well-designed law firm billing software invoices, combined with proactive collection policies improve payment rates and maintain positive client relationships.

What is Healthcare Staffing Payroll Factoring?
Healthcare staffing payroll factoring is the conversion of accounts receivable into cash by selling outstanding invoices to a factor at a discount.

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