Category: Small Business

How to Keep Up With What’s Happening in HR

Jason Fleagle

Creating the right policies, procedures and practices in HR takes a lot of time and thought. It’s something that you need to keep up to date as the law changes and times change too. As employees start to want different things and behave differently, you need to pay attention to how to get the best from them. Staying in touch with what’s important and what the best practices are is essential, but what if you don’t know where to look to find out what you should be doing? There are…

Setting Goals For Your Small Business

Jason Fleagle
Setting Goals For Your Small Business | Business | Converge

Setting goals is an important part of any business but are especially important for a small business. So if you have a small business and looking to set goals for your own, here are a few tips. Break Down Your Goals Businesses often opt for lots of long-term goals, which are great but there’s nothing short-term to help motivate a business. Long-term requires a lot of time and effort, so the time it’ll take to see the payoff isn’t going to be anytime soon. So that’s why it’s important to…

Taking Advantage Of Your Industry As A Small Business

Jason Fleagle
Taking Advantage Of Your Industry As A Small Business | Business | Converge

Running a small business can come with loads of challenges which you don’t expect, all working together to make your life as hard as possible. No matter how much work you do, it will always feel as though you have more on your plate, and this is something which a lot of companies never manage to overcome. To help you out with this, this post will be exploring a different side of this coin, giving you the chance to start taking advantage of the industry you’re a part of, all…

Advice On Protecting A Small Business

Jason Fleagle
Advice On Protecting A Small Business | Business | Converge

Running a small business can have its challenges and protecting it from anything that can ruin all your hard work can sometimes be tough. So going forward, what advice can be given to protect your small business? Legal And Insurance Protection You want to make sure you have the right legal protection, so if you had to deal with a union arbitration process, you’d have the right support you need. Having legal support is crucial no matter how big your business maybe but you should certainly have it when your…

Don’t Fear Progess, Utilize It!

Jason Fleagle
Don't Fear Progess, Utilize It! | Business | Converge

You might have noticed in the news or online small companies complaining about how big websites like Amazon have obliterated their chance at making profits. One of the issues with sites like this is that they sell EVERYTHING. That means regardless of what your business offers to customers, you are going to be in competition with companies like this. You’ll have to compete on the same level of pricing or, you’ll have to provide a USP that means you stand out over what they can offer. This is just one…

Building Your Offices On The Cheap

Jason Fleagle
Building Your Offices On The Cheap | Business | Converge

When it comes time to build a new office, one of the main things that you want to be sure of is that you are only spending what you absolutely have to spend to make the project work out well. Whether you are just starting up a new business, or seeking to expand a current one, there is no doubt that building a new office is a huge project, and one which is generally going to cost you a lot of money. It gets without saying too that you will…

3 Business Tasks You Should Outsource

Jason Fleagle
3 Business Tasks You Should Outsource | Business | Converge

Small businesses have one important thing in common: they need to save as much as their resources as possible. It’s not to say that this isn’t just as important for larger businesses, though, but the startups have so many competitors they’re up against and way too many uncertainties – they simply can’t afford to splurge. Luckily, there are a few tried-and-tested methods of saving a bit more money during the early phases in order to give yourself a running change. Here is a handful of the processes you might want…

How Much Information Should You Give For Free In Your Business?

Jason Fleagle
How Much Information Should You Give For Free In Your Business? | Business | Converge

If you’re just starting your online business or have been working as a Tech Entrepreneur for a while, this might be one of the things you struggle with most – and it’s really not surprising. There’s clearly a divide in opinion on this matter, so it’s likely that you’ll have heard strong arguments for both sides of the freebie issue. On the one side, you have a lot of people saying “give, give, give as much as you can.” “Give all your best stuff away.” “It’s not possible to give…

Chaotic Office? Here’s How to Get Organized

Jason Fleagle
Chaotic Office? Here's How to Get Organized | Business | Converge

While we’ve all experienced a few busy Wednesdays at the office, it’s definitely a bit of a problem if this is the standard atmosphere every time you arrive at work. It will wear your employees out, that’s for sure, and you’ll miss out on a lot of productive days at work where you could have been able to be creative and get more out of your days. You know, rather than trying to chase down that missing email that nobody received or try to fix that software that continues to…

4 Things That Can Ruin Productivity

Jason Fleagle
4 Things That Can Ruin Productivity | Business | Converge

You should be doing things to ensure that you have all the ingredients for long-term, company-wide productivity at your business. But while this is a good initiative to enact, it’s worthwhile remembering that while the larger policies will help you to have a higher output, much productivity that’s lost has to do with small errors made during each day. When it comes to getting as much done as possible, you need to have your eyes on here and now, not the long-term! Below, we take a look at four things…