by Jeff Mendelsohn | Jun 23, 2014 | Business Management
As I write this I am sitting here staring at a set of keys I found while cleaning out my desk. The keys don’t belong to me. They belong to a business I use to work for a very long time ago. The one key opens both the front and back door to the main shop. The...
by Tiffiny Fayerweather | Jun 23, 2014 | Business Improvement, Employee Management, Organization, Security, Uncategorized
Every business will have complaints from a customer every now and then. When the customer complaints keep coming in about the same issues over and over is when you need to worry. How you deal with the complaints is what will make your business stand out. Consider...
by Linda Fayerweather | Jun 16, 2014 | Business Management, Saving Time
If you are like me, you may dream of having just an extra hour each day to do ________________. You fill in the blank. What would you do with an extra 60 minutes? Fill in the next three lines because if you know what you would spend an extra hour each day doing. ...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Jun 9, 2014 | Personal Improvement, Planning for Business
It is June and I thought to myself, lets see how I’m doing on my goals. Apparently better than I thought but also worse. I’ve failed to do or complete about 28% of my personal goals. The worst part is I’ve failed to do 75% of my business goals. But...
by Linda Fayerweather | Jun 2, 2014 | Business Improvement, Customer Service & Culture
Chaos and Confusion are some small businesses’ response to customer service. You have probably even talked to some. I did when my cell phone died last year. When I called the customer service number, typed in my cell phone number twice, waited for 10 minutes and...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | May 26, 2014 | Personal Improvement
Some common life tips have always been: Drinking 8 glasses of water a day, get plenty of sleep, exercise, eat healthy, be kind to others, put money away into your savings, brush your teeth twice a day. These are all tips I try to do every day to make my life better...
by Tiffiny Fayerweather | May 20, 2014 | Business Management, Business Planning, Goals
Where did the time go? Why don’t I have time to do the things I want to do anymore? Sound familiar? It probably does if you’re a small business owner. Small business owners often forget about finding themselves a little piece of sanity in the large responsibilities of...
by Linda Fayerweather | May 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
You need to know your break-even point to get on the road to profitability. The information needed to produce your break-even are your fixed costs and your variable costs and the selling price of your product. Fixed Costs are rent, salaries, utilities or any expense...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | May 19, 2014 | Business Improvement
I was talking to an acquaintance the other day and he was telling me about a new business he was starting. He’s doing custom promo kiosks for local businesses. He was telling me a bit about his process and how he goes about creating the graphics. Long story...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | May 12, 2014 | Personal Improvement, TOS - Totally Off Subject
I often have thought of myself as an entrepreneur with what I do with my web design business, Liquid Mechanix Studio. But after a conversation with Linda on a project we are working on for Changing Lanes, I realized I’m not an entrepreneur. We were trying to...
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