Posts Tagged ‘Invoices’

Advantage of having a Virtual Assistant for Small Business Owners

A lot of home-based business may not hire an employee to work at its home, therefore outsourcing your business task to a virtual assistant is a great way to solve this problem. A VA can lighten the workload to a home-based business owner with various task that you do not like to do or task that you simply do not have the time to do it yourself.

A VA only charges on the hours consumed on the time required to do such work.

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Can Accounts Receivable Factoring Help Your Business

Writen by Marco Terry

Are you stuck with great but slow paying clients? It is interesting how your biggest asset (great clients) can also be your biggest liability. But that is how business is. And as an owner you must adapt.

Whether you like it or not, slow paying customers are here to stay. As a rule of thumb, commercial clients pay their bills in 30 to 60 days. And lately, the trend has been deteriorating.

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Top Tips For Small Businesses To Survive The Recession

Here are some tips for small businesses to survive the recession …. courtesy of the everywoman network:

1) Know your cost base.

What costs are fixed (ie, costs that you HAVE to pay) and what are variable (ie, that are essentially optional or that fluctuate with sales). Splitting costs in this way will help you to pay what needs paying and cut back on what doesnt.

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Preventing Internal Theft

This just in from Laurie Owen, Senior Vice President of Business Resource Services out of Seattle. They were at our ASBDC national conference and offer up this interesting article by way of follow-up.


A convicted felon shares his story and the steps you must take now to protect your business from internal theft.

It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop in the normally chatty group of jewelry store owners.

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Ideal Finance for Your Business

A perfect combination of discipline, hard work and proper training can take your business to new heights helping you in accomplishing the desired success. Discipline is needed in every area in an organisation ranging from managing the employees, maintaining the environment of the organization, coordinating the work in the organisation or the finance.

Maintaining discipline in the field of finance is the primary function of every businessman.

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