These days, owing to the popularity of online business administration degrees and MBA courses, there are more people than ever who have the opportunity to become highly qualified in business. This means that as an employer, even if your business is small, you are more likely to run into candidates with these qualifications on their resumes. However, just what do you learn on an MBA course or even an online bachelors in business, and just what can that bring to a business like yours?…
Business owners who wish to gain a higher level of education may be reluctant to do so because they’re too busy actually running their companies every day. But this is where online degree programs can come in handy.
Continue reading to learn more about how online degrees can help business owners have the best of both worlds: a career that they love and a great education that will help them achieve more than they thought possible.
Online Degree Programs Are Flexible
One of the biggest perks of online degree programs is the fact that they’re more flexible than degree programs at brick and mortar colleges.…
A good work-from-home program can save your company money, boost employee productivity and morale, and act as a perk to help you attract great talent. But to be effective, your program needs to have enough structure to keep your staff on task and bring out their best work without supervision, and it needs to have some elements to help you stay on top of employee performance. Here are some steps to help you create a well-developed, flexible work-at-home program.
1. Hash Out Eligibility
Which staff members will be eligible to work from home and which will need to stay in the office?…
It really does not matter what type of company you run, understanding its strengths and weaknesses is vital to success. Gathering relevant data about your business and interrogating it on a regular basis is by far the best way to stay informed about what is really going on in your firm.
This applies to all areas of your business, not just your finances. It is not enough to just pull off a profit and loss report every month, and review it.…
When you are in the field of information technology, you have to be on your feet at all times, because so much can change in the blink of an eye. Back in the day, computers were the size of entire rooms, and could only solve simple equations using punch cards. Now, they can do so much more than that, such as processing heavy multimedia, crunching heavy numbers, and even allowing you to talk to another person from all the way across the globe, all using machines that literally fit in the palm of your hand.…
ZipBooks provides a better than decent accounting software, and better yet, it’s free. For SMEs, it’s without a doubt the best software out there right now, given its functionality and price.
The ZipBooks iOS app was just announced—but is it worth downloading?
The answer is yes, but it comes with some qualifiers. I’ll share what makes the app so good, and some potential drawbacks to consider.
Advantages: Go-anywhere invoicing and complete business connectivity
Here’s a quick list of some cool features that connect you to your work:
Dashboard: The app dashboard allows you to instantly view your company’s billing & collections, revenue, customers and more.…
In any restaurant business, it is crucial that your extraction system runs exactly as it should. Cooking can be a hot and smoky labour intensive activity that is made much more comfortable with the presence of an extractor fan and hood.
Should your extraction system ever fail it is important to know how to find a professional installer and repairer to quickly fix the problem. In order to keep your kitchen running as smoothly and comfortably as possible you need to know exactly where to turn.…
Unless you’re a retro fashionista, it’s unlikely that you go around wearing the same styles people wore several decades ago. Fashion is constantly evolving, and not just because humans are prone to changing their minds. Change is an indication of progress, and if you’re still doing all of the same things you were doing years ago, you probably haven’t progressed very far.
Companies work the same way. It’s easy to fall into familiar routines, but if you really want to succeed, it’s important to shake things up every now and then.…
When you think about what a business fundamentally does, “building relationships” isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. Building relationships seems more suited for a counselor or someone who is involved in a service related job. Too often, people’s perception of a business is about selling people things. This is true only on the most basic level. However, when you think about what goes on in a transaction, communication is essential, and the building block of a solid relationship. The way to outperform the competition is to think in terms of relationships rather than just sales.…
Over the past decade, or so, the way we do business has changed at a phenomenal rate. During that time, we have moved from using pen and paper to keep track of everything to doing everything using electronics.
Paper ledgers are out databases are in. Security guards are a thing of the past, now we use remotely controlled CCTV, and digital alarm systems, to protect our businesses.
Even production machines are hooked up to a network. Machine setters rarely go onto the shop floor to fix issues, or set up a piece of equipment for a new production run.…
