Why Your Credit Score Matters As A Small Business Owner

Your credit score is calculated by credit bureaus, such as Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion, to determine your likelihood to repay debt. Lenders and credit card companies use this score to make a decision as to whether or not they’ll extend credit to you. In other words, your credit score matters when you want to borrow money personally or to operate or grow your business. It’s likely that you use credit to purchase many things in your personal life.

Your credit score is calculated by credit bureaus, such as Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion, to determine your likelihood to repay debt. Lenders and credit card companies use this score to make a decision as to whether or not they’ll extend credit to you. In other words, your credit score matters when you want to borrow money personally or to operate or grow your business. Continue reading “Why Your Credit Score Matters As A Small Business Owner”

From Surveys To Blogging – How This Mom Found The Path To Six Figures

Hi, I'm Holly. I help women and moms find remote jobs, careers, and home-based businesses that feed their souls. If you're looking to work from home, this is the blog for you. April 2, 2018 2 Comments This post may contain paid and/or affiliate links.

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Pre-Employment Screening Helps You Get To Know Your Candidate

While you may feel that you know a candidate after an interview, do you really? Or do you just know what they told you?While your default reaction may be to just take a candidate at their word, this can prove to be dangerous for your business. Pre-employment screenings exist to prevent business owners and hiring managers from trusting a candidate blindly. These screenings allow you to verify both information that your candidate already disclosed- about past work experience and education – and information that you were unable to ask previously – about their criminal record or credit. When hiring a new employee, you can never be too careful.

While you may feel that you know a candidate after an interview, do you really? Or do you just know what they told you?

While your default reaction may be to just take a candidate at their word, this can prove to be dangerous for your business. Pre-employment screenings exist to prevent business owners and hiring managers from trusting a candidate blindly. These screenings allow you to verify both information that your candidate already disclosed- about past work experience and education – and information that you were unable to ask previously – about their criminal record or credit. Continue reading “Pre-Employment Screening Helps You Get To Know Your Candidate”

How To Make The Most Of Your Woman-Owned Business Certification

AllBusiness. comLast week I shared some tips for getting certified as a woman-owned business, whether a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE), Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB), or Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB). But once you’ve gotten your certification, the journey isn’t over—in fact, it’s just beginning. Now you need to toot your own horn as a woman business owner and let potential customers and clients know you’re “official.

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Last week I shared some tips for getting certified as a woman-owned business, whether a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE), Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB), or Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB). But once you’ve gotten your certification, the journey isn’t over—in fact, it’s just beginning. Continue reading “How To Make The Most Of Your Woman-Owned Business Certification”

10 Ways To Dazzle Your Customers With An Awesome In-Store Experience

AllBusiness. comMaking sure your customers have the best experience when they shop at your brick-and-mortar location will turn them into loyal consumers who return frequently and buy even more from your store. For brick and mortar stores to survive in the age of online shopping, they need to focus on what they do best: providing product advice and insider knowledge like online sites never can. Nothing beats this.

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Making sure your customers have the best experience when they shop at your brick-and-mortar location will turn them into loyal consumers who return frequently and buy even more from your store.

For brick and mortar stores to survive in the age of online shopping, they need to focus on what they do best: providing product advice and insider knowledge like online sites never can. Continue reading “10 Ways To Dazzle Your Customers With An Awesome In-Store Experience”

Why Building A Great Sales Team Is Like Building A Winning Baseball Roster

AllBusiness. comSpring is here and another baseball season is underway! Baseball is known as America’s national pastime because there’s something uniquely American about it—it’s a game of teamwork, discipline, attention to detail, and perseverance in the face of failure. In the same way, baseball is a lot like sales! And if you’re trying to build a better sales team for your business, you can take some lessons from the way Major League Baseball teams assemble their rosters. Just like every baseball team has a “manager” and every team has players who fill specific roles, your sales team needs to have a good mix of veterans, starters, and closers!Baseball is a game of repetitive work: batting practice, pitching and catching, many hours spent at the batting cage taking swings, and in the field chasing grounders and shagging flies.

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Spring is here and another baseball season is underway! Baseball is known as America’s national pastime because there’s something uniquely American about it—it’s a game of teamwork, discipline, attention to detail, and perseverance in the face of failure.

In the same way, baseball is a lot like sales! And if you’re trying to build a better sales team for your business, you can take some lessons from the way Major League Baseball teams assemble their rosters. Continue reading “Why Building A Great Sales Team Is Like Building A Winning Baseball Roster”

How Outsourcing Helps Entrepreneurs Build Businesses

One of the fundamental changes caused by the growth of the internet is the way we work. These days, almost everything can be done online from the comfort of a living room, and more and more people are taking advantage of this accessibility to start their own businesses. When we think about entrepreneurs, we often think about the Mark Zuckerberg types who are building multi-million dollar businesses from a dorm room or a garage. But what we don’t always realize is that anyone who’s self-employed is an entrepreneur, and so is anyone who runs a small business.

One of the fundamental changes caused by the growth of the internet is the way we work. These days, almost everything can be done online from the comfort of a living room, and more and more people are taking advantage of this accessibility to start their own businesses.

When we think about entrepreneurs, we often think about the Mark Zuckerberg types who are building multi-million dollar businesses from a dorm room or a garage. Continue reading “How Outsourcing Helps Entrepreneurs Build Businesses”

The Five Best Free Email Marketing Services

Hi, I'm Holly. I help women and moms find remote jobs, careers, and home-based businesses that feed their souls. If you're looking to work from home, this is the blog for you. April 6, 2018 76 Comments This post may contain paid and/or affiliate links.

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