With national disasters and the recent Coronavirus outbreak, small businesses need to be prepared for anything. How ready is your office? Here are 8 tips on Preparing your Office for a hurricane or emergency. Small Business Preparedness Tips Do a full back-up of all your computer files when you first hear of the hurricane or emergency. This will minimize the amount of missing information. Having at least two places where your stored files will help you. It can be an … [Read more...] about 8 Tips on Preparing your Office for an Emergency
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30 Desk Items To Throw Away For A Tidy Space
Whether you have a home office or a traditional office, you probably have items lying around your desk that don't necessarily need to be there. As you get busier and busier, you may have issues keeping your desk clear from clutter. This post will help you get your desk cleared out quickly and easily. Read on to find out the 20 desk items to throw away for a tidier space. Why do you need to clear your desk space? Well, there are the obvious reasons, like it distracts you from the work … [Read more...] about 30 Desk Items To Throw Away For A Tidy Space
Spring Cleaning Digital Files Like a Rockstar
Are you planning on doing spring cleaning soon? Spring cleaning digital files for your small business, that is. It's easy for us to neglect this area in our personal life, who cares if my password hasn't been changed in years and my contact list is so outdated it has my previous career's coworkers in it. But, in your business, it does matter. It helps with productivity, finding things easier, referencing things easier. The bottom line is that it saves you money and time. Below are … [Read more...] about Spring Cleaning Digital Files Like a Rockstar
TOP 3 Tasks THIS YEAR For a relaxing Tax Season NEXT YEAR
It's just before the start of the new year. There are things you can do right now to get ready for the next year. Let's make tax season for next year less stressful. Here are three easy tips to get tax returns in order. TOP 3 Tasks THIS YEAR For a relaxing Tax Season NEXT YEAR 1. Review and change any estimated taxes that you may need to do for the current year. Check with your employees and see if they need to have anything changed on their withholding. How about your situation? Do … [Read more...] about TOP 3 Tasks THIS YEAR For a relaxing Tax Season NEXT YEAR
Easy Ways to Clear Digital Clutter for Small Business Owners
If you are not aware, I write an organizing blog to help people get and stay organized in their home. I created a version of this post on my organizing blog that is primarily for homeowners and individuals. This post also adds business files. When updating software or hardware, I like to go over the files individually and start deleting them. Below is a step by step review of how I do this for my personal as well as business life. Clear the desktop files … [Read more...] about Easy Ways to Clear Digital Clutter for Small Business Owners
Interesting Small Business Facts
Small businesses can range in size from a single owner with no employees to an owner with several employees and different departments. While I was researching small business facts, I thought these were interesting, so I decided to make a small business facts infographic. Enjoy, and please share. Keep in mind that these stats are consistently changing and will expire over time. So, here is some additional recent facts. There are 31.7 million small businesses in the US only! That's a huge … [Read more...] about Interesting Small Business Facts
