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Apps Apps Apps - February 2021
Adding the right applications to your business can streamline operations, create efficient processes and save you time and money. But where to start? Each month, members of the MATAX team pick their favorite of the month. Here are the selections for February 2021.
5 Most Common Accounting Mistakes That Could Hurt Your Business
Many small business owners tend to handle their own accounting and bookkeeping, especially when they’ve just started out. However, keeping track of the finance-side of the business– everything from income to expenses to tax compliance– can be overwhelming.
8 things your invoice needs in order to get paid faster
So you’ve set up your business and sold some products and services. Now, you have to send an invoice to collect your payment. But what should you include on your invoices in order to get paid faster?
The True Value of Networking
There are all kinds of groups dedicated to networking. Some are highly structured with performance requirements, exclusive membership, and the payment of dues. Others are free form, come as you please and no charge.
Apps Apps Apps - January 2021
Adding the right applications to your business can streamline operations, create efficient processes, and save you time and money. But where to start? There are 1,000’s of applications out there, many solving the same or similar issues. Each month, members of the MATAX team pick their favorite of the month. Here are the selections for January 2021.
Update your business plan for a new year
As another year winds down, it’s a good time to reflect on your recent business successes – and consider what you’d like to achieve in the coming twelve to fifteen months.
These tips can help you with the process of making plans to help guide your business to greater success
Planning the year ahead
The turn of the year usually prompts most people to think about some business planning for the year ahead. Here are some tips to make the planning more productive.
The worst business advice to follow
When you’re a small business owner, you get used to people giving you advice. Sometimes you seek out their insights while other times they share whether you want them to or not. While the advice is almost always well-intended, it’s not always good. In fact, sometimes it’s downright awful.
Apps Apps Apps - December 2020
Adding the right applications to your business can streamline operations, create efficient processes, and save you time and money. But where to start? There are 1,000’s of applications out there, many solving the same or similar issues.
Five Ways to Bring in More Cash for Your Business
Now is the perfect time to evaluate your financial position and come up with innovative ways to add revenue streams and generate cash. Here are five ways you might consider to improve your cash inflow.
Creating your business to-do list
When you’re an entrepreneur, your to-do list is often long and constantly growing longer. There is an overwhelming number of things you need to do, and it can feel like they’re all urgent. In such cases, it’s easy to push important tasks to the side and focus on less-vital activities, but that often means you miss deadlines, make mistakes, or always feel as though you’re trying to catch up.
How to grow your network without networking events
Networking can be a key way to keep your business growing. Regardless of your industry or business size, it is hard to ignore the benefits of forming professional networks for potential partnerships, expanding your client base, and scaling up.
A Guide to Business Recovery in a pandemic world
Although the short-term outlook varies depending on your industry sector, it is important for all business leaders to set up a strategy that will guide their way towards recovery. If you want some tips on how to hit the ground running after the crisis, this guide will outline the steps to get your business back on track.
Four Great Ways To Get More Leads for Your Business
It’s very rare these days that people just happen to find your business and become a client or customer with no work on your part. Your business has to grab people’s attention, turn curious visitors into leads, and then convert those leads into sales.
5 Tips to Improve the Conversion Rate on Your Site
If you want to increase sales on your eCommerce site, you should not only focus on traffic but also on your conversion rate. The higher your conversion rate, the more money you can make with the same number of visitors. Here are five tactics to help you increase your conversion rate.
Useful ways to benchmark your business
For many business owners, determining the success of a business comes down to how much profit the company makes. Of course, finances are an important measure of a company’s overall success. If you don’t bring in more than you spend you won’t be in business for long. Profit, however, isn’t the only important benchmark by which to measure your business.
Using Scarcity to Make More Sales during COVID-19
For an online business owner, scarcity is a valuable tool that can turn a failing product into a winner. It is best implemented in a subtle way that does not draw attention to itself, but the urge to purchase remains very potent.
How Small Businesses are Boosting Sales During COVID-19
In this article, we put a spotlight on the most creative and innovative ways that small businesses have adopted to increase sales during the pandemic and prosper in the new business environment.
Moving your business to Social Media because of COVID? Here's 9 Quick Tips!
With social media, you can connect with business associates quickly and creatively. But this communication mode is not without risk. A thoughtless post can offend customers and other business partners and damage relationships rather than build them.
How Your Business Can Thrive Even in a Recession
The pains caused by a recession can be excruciating, which is why most of us dread the thought of it. A recession can mean massive layoffs, jobs becoming harder to find, and wages frozen, which means consumers hunker down and spend less– often worsening the economic slowdown unknowingly.