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Financial Ratio Analysis

Financial ratios provide a means of measuring the overall health of a business. While numerous measures exist, the most popular measure the overall health of your business analyzing income, liquidity,…

Sources of Start-Up Funding

You’ve come up with a plausible idea for a business. That is great! An idea gets you to the starting gate. However, you get into the race with money. Startup…

Compensation Basics

Compensation is the combination of salaries, wages and benefits that employees receive in exchange for them doing a particular job. It can include an annual salary or hourly wages combined…

Creating an Employee Handbook

As an employer and owner of a growing small business, good communication between yourself and your employees is of utmost importance. As you are growing, and hiring employees to accommodate…

Pricing Strategies

Profit is a large part of why you’re in business, and it definitely is what keeps you in business. That’s why using an effective pricing strategy is so important. Here…

Calculate Your Direct Mail ROI

Direct marketing has been a staple of many companies marketing mix for decades and many successful companies have been built with direct marketing as the backbone of their marketing initiatives.…

Required Employee Benefits

As an employer and small business owner, you undoubtedly understand the importance offering your employees benefits. For many employees, salary is not the only factor in their decision to accept…