Category Archives: Entrepreneur

If you’ve considered opening a small business, we’ve got a good feeling that 2024 is your year. Despite worries over inflation and high-interest rates, the U.S. economy continues to grow.   And while entrepreneurs are concerned with inflation (78%), interest rates (65%), and commodities prices (63%), there’s still good news to be had. Sixty-six per centContinueContinue reading “How to Start a Small Business in 2024 in 7 Actionable Steps”

Everyone from individual taxpayers to small businesses has likely heard about gross income or total annual income. This is the total amount of money you’ll make from working. While it’s important and a helpful indicator of how much money you may have made, gross income is just one part of the income big picture. AsContinueContinue reading “What you need to know about Adjusted Gross Income (AGI)”

Paper employee schedules are so 2001. It’s time to ditch the paper work schedule in favor of a digital one. Fortunately, creating a digital employee work schedule is easier than ever before—and you can even do it for free. One of the most popular scheduling solutions? Creating a work schedule template using Google Sheets. ToContinueContinue reading “How to Make a Work Schedule Template using Google Sheets”

It’s a busy Wednesday morning at your coffee shop, and you’ve just found out that two of your baristas are off sick. At the same time, your assistant manager is requesting a last-minute day off next week. Suddenly, the intricate staff rota you spent hours crafting is in disarray. Whether you work with full-time orContinueContinue reading “6 Tips to Create an Effective Staff Rota”

If you’re looking to fill an open role at your small business, finding candidates can be easy. But are they the right candidate? That’s a little trickier. You can go through the interview process, meet them, and conduct skills tests, but that doesn’t always tell you the whole story about their past history. Conducting aContinueContinue reading “5 Steps to Conducting a Background Check for Employment”