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Developing Your Small Business Team

By Glenn Muske

Building and running a business means handling a variety of tasks and duties. Some of those duties you may enjoy and some you may not. Some of those duties you may be good at and some may frustrate you. One task that many small-business owners continually tell me they neither enjoy nor feel competent at or […]

February 24, 2016 Filed Under: management, Small Biz 100 Tagged With: accountant, accounting, entrepreneurship, fiscal managmeent, good management practices, management, small business

What’s Your Resolution for 2016?

By Glenn Muske

2016

Well, here we are at the end of one year and the beginning of another. Welcome, 2016! For many people, this is the day we make resolutions for the upcoming year. Often these hopes are for something in our personal life. Do you also take time to make resolutions for managing your business? And for […]

December 31, 2015 Filed Under: management, rural, Small Biz 100, success Tagged With: building a business, business development, business planning, entrepreneurship, planning, small business

Never ask anyone to do something you don’t want to, right? Wrong.

By Becky McCray

Evening shoppers in a small town store

A downtown retail store owner told me she closes at 5 pm because she hates to stay later. She gets to work at 8 am most days, and so at 5 pm she’s ready to go home. She doesn’t like to delegate at all, she told me, and she wouldn’t ask anyone to do anything […]

October 12, 2015 Filed Under: customer service, entrepreneurship, management, rural, Small Biz 100 Tagged With: retail

Workplace Safety: Get Your Team on Board

By Glenn Muske

Slip and fall sign

We know having a safe workplace is important. We know it’s a good business practice. We know it can save us money and maybe even save us from financial disaster. We know but do we always practice? And is it high priority? Moreover, have we instilled it into those working at our company, whether employees, […]

August 27, 2015 Filed Under: management, Small Biz 100 Tagged With: management, operations, safety, slips and fall, small business

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