Sticky notes or 3M Post-its(R) are more useful than just creating beautiful murals displayed on high-rise windows in NYC and for helping kids learn to spell. They can be used effectively in your business. This post will talk about creative ways to use sticky notes to make your business more productive. You may be wondering why do I need sticky notes for my business. Well, there's something about real paper that makes us either want to take action to remove the clutter … [Read more...]
How To Create An Outstanding Workplace
Working in a productive office, makes anyone feel in control of their lives and tasks that need to be done. So this week, I will discuss how to create an outstanding workplace for your employees. Creating an outstanding workplace Have a written process and procedure for every position in your company. This tip will describe the critical actions to take for different scenarios. It also helps new employees to show how the process works and what their responsibilities involve. … [Read more...]
5 Amazing Holiday Gifts for Employees
Wondering what to give your employees and coworkers that go above and beyond what they expect? Here are 5-holiday gifts for employees that I love. Order them now and you will have them in time for the holidays. Personalized Notepads: Customized notepads are great to give to employees when you don't know what else to give. Here is an example from Amazon I found. Fresh Fruit all year: You can get 3 months to a year shipped to your employees. Other things like ham can also be given. Here is … [Read more...]
How to Create an Inviting Break Room
If you have a home office or an office outside your home, a coffee station is a wonderful place to gather and get to know your coworkers, colleagues, and clients. It's an area that you can use to relax and have some time to decompress before starting work again. But, what would you have in this space? Have you ever asked yourself this question? Or has your Break Room become a mishmash of items that people have brought in over time. Today, I am going to talk break down the process to … [Read more...]
Tips To Make Your Business Goals a Success
Being a business owner is freeing but also time-consuming. We can make our schedule and work with and spend time with people we chose. However, there are some downfalls. One such downfall is being able to keep focused on seeing the bigger picture for our business and creating new goals for your business. Lucky for you, here is a list of tips to make your business goals a success. Here are some questions to ask yourself first. Where we want our business to go? Where we want to be in 5 … [Read more...]
Year End Payroll Due Dates Infographic
It's near the end of the year. Payroll is starting to wrap up for this year. Here are some important dates to help you with this task. If you need help, please be sure to contact a professional. Do by 12/1/2015: Remind employees to give you an update on their filing status. Make sure S.S. numbers and Employee names and addresses are correct. Do by 12/31/2015: Check all S.S. withheld to make sure it is correct with payments to S.S. Do by 1/1/2016: Update wage tax payroll liability … [Read more...]
Six Tips to Maximize Your Time with Inbound Marketing
These days, several business owners spend a lot of time blogging, updating website content, and posting on Pinterest, Google+, Facebook and Twitter among other sites. Internet marketing tasks make small business owners, like us, wonder, "Do we really need to do this? How much time should we dedicate to doing online marketing tasks?" We probably even know many small business owners who do not attempt to take on these tasks at all because they feel that it is a waste of time setting up and … [Read more...]
5 Tips for Delegating Tasks
Whether you are delegating tasks to employees or subcontractors, here are 5 tips for delegating tasks every small business owner should know. Know what you want to delegate. Delegate any task that you do not need direct connect with. Get rid of tasks that are easy and that can be easily explained. Not all the unpleasant tasks can be delegated. If you don't like to do your deposits, you may not want someone else doing this task since it involves depositing money. Learn to release some … [Read more...]
