Success

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

You’ll see these when inputting expenses into your accounting software or spreadsheet or when reviewing your transactions. Your accountant can help you with that, or you can learn about them in the IRS Tax Guide for Small Business. Online business checking and savings accounts can also connect to accounting software programs.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, has been signaling these issues for years, including in her 2018 book, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World. “We companies hire Latin America-based remote software developers. Broussard, an associate professor at the Arthur L. de Crespigny says.

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Ruby

MAY 7, 2024

How do virtual receptionists make life easier for one-person businesses? Small businesses = tight budgets. Let’s talk about a few ways Ruby’s virtual receptionists can help your business immediately. Still, this is yet another function your small business can easily outsource.

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Ruby

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Most small businesses need someone to answer phones, respond to customer questions, take messages, and route calls, as needed. In fact, many businesses can derive far more benefits from outsourcing to a virtual receptionist service provider. Let’s review the costs of each to find out which is right for your business and budget!

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Success

JULY 27, 2022

And we got some unexpected comments too, like this one from Cliff Michaels, past president of EO Los Angeles: “If you are visual and tactile, which I am, there is nothing better than a good old-fashioned notepad—on your computer desktop or physical desk. Once you have to go too many layers into a software tool, it’s a time and focus killer.

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Ruby

MAY 4, 2021

VoIP’s beginnings reach back to the mid-1990s and the growing popularity of the internet and personal computers, as well as the rising costs of long-distance calls. With VoIP calling, people and businesses could save on their phone bills by tapping into the power of the newfangled World Wide Web. How does VoIP work?

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Insperity

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Be sure appropriate computer and data systems are in place to minimize risk. Review and regularly update software protections, firewalls and other protective mechanisms. Implement sound and consistent HR practices, including policies and procedures on the use of company computers, email, internet and other communication systems.

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Success

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS, the North Carolina-based business analytics software company, follows a seemingly simple philosophy: Treat employees like they’re making a difference, and they will. Google brings the same intellectual prowess and zeal to its workplace programs that it uses to create computer eyeglasses.

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Ruby

JULY 18, 2023

You’ll also need to buy computers, printers, phones, a scanner, dictation recorders, legal software, and client relationship management software. Finding funding Small business loans are an option but require putting up collateral. Yes, because it is! Perhaps even too much for one person to manage.

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Ruby

MARCH 28, 2022

In today’s small business landscape, women-owned businesses are leading the way. Women are starting as many businesses as anyone, and women of color are starting businesses at a faster pace than any other demographic.

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Ruby

JULY 21, 2023

In addition to your business plan, take a look around you. Is your software or computer system up-to-date? If you run a service-based business, consider tackling some advanced education and training to beef up your existing skills. Which of your key performance indicators are in the yellow or red zones? What's inside?

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Ruby

AUGUST 11, 2020

And welcome back to our small business series, Business Unusual. Well, my background is in geography and computer science. I worked as a software developer at various digital agencies in San Francisco. They tended to be in software, and in India and places like that, and it didn’t always go so well.

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Chart Logic

JUNE 14, 2018

Anyone who uses computers, internet, or credit cards – from individuals to big corporations – is in danger of having their information stolen every time they go online. For any US business, it is imperative to have someone watching and in charge of cybersecurity. An overwhelming 87% of small business owners don’t think so.

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Insperity

JANUARY 15, 2012

Natural disasters are an unpredictable reality across the country, and their impact on small businesses can be devastating. “It doesn’t do you any good if the external hard drive you have everything backed up to is on your desk next to the computer when disaster strikes,” she says. “Many small businesses don’t.

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Insperity

JULY 8, 2014

And small businesses are disproportionately victimized, according to a recent report by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. The reasons small businesses are at more risk may be a lack of fraud-prevention resources or a lack of oversight. Fraud has nothing to do with need, greed or trust.

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Ruby

MAY 30, 2023

To fund your enterprise, you’ll likely want to secure a small business loan. Never use your personal nest egg as capital for your professional expenses.

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Vantage Circle

AUGUST 28, 2020

Don Brown, Owner, Director of Software Products and Services for BasicSafe. Rhode Island Small Business Recovery Program. If you are the proprietor or managing director of a company, you are ultimately responsible for the health and safety in all aspects of the business. Forum of Private Business. to develop.

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Ruby

AUGUST 17, 2020

It exists in the virtual space—it lives on computers, phones, software, and the internet. Pros: more flexibility for the business greater freedom for workers improved workforce productivity and retention significantly lower overhead costs (e.g. Use Ruby’s checklist to optimize your business continuity plan.

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Vantage Circle

MARCH 19, 2019

The modern technology instead of remaining limited to big corporations is also helping small business owners achieve big goals. With various hardware and software tools at their disposal, business owners are more self-dependent than ever before. Modern workplace extensively relies on computer-aided tools for efficiency.

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Ruby

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Cloud computing and advances in telecommunications technology have made it possible for receptionists to handle calls remotely, if and when businesses need them to. Many business owners, particularly owners of small businesses, can’t justify the costs of hiring, onboarding, and training someone on-site to answer calls full-time.

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

A reader writes: About a year ago, I decided to apply for a sales position with a local software company. I started my own small business, I also work for a great local company, and I have started going back to school for computer science. They are the largest software company in the area. I have a 4.0

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The Receptionist

MARCH 12, 2024

Jobs There’s no denying that the rapid emergence of computers in the 90s created countless jobs Suddenly, the world needed software engineers, developers, graphic designers, and more. Small businesses or self-employed individuals created 38 percent of these jobs, whereas only 34 percent were created by large Internet corporations.

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I spent an entire day surfing the net on my work computer and did no work. I work at a small business—I am one of two full-time employees—that hasn’t been doing well financially. I web surfed at work for a day and now I’m paranoid. I had a week with very little work to do and did something I’m embarrassed about.

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