1. A good crew is essential. Your employees are your team. They will help or hurt your business’s progress. Employing valuable employees starts at the interview. Be professional. Ensure that the potential employee understands that you’re running a business, not a playground. Act like the boss. It’s okay and even important to have fun with your employees, but always maintain authority. If your team has weak links, let them go. It’s a burden to you, your business, and your other employees to employ a dud.
2. Separating services from goods allows you to see your assets and liabilities without getting in a tangle. As your business expands, you can go as far as to put them on separate books and assign separate employees to each area. This lets you focus more accurately on your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
3. Broadening your target market with expand your client base faster and more effectively. Get to know the kind of people you intend to market to and find out what they’re reading, viewing, and listening to. Get in their way; don’t be annoying, but command their attention. Use your knowledge of the market to get them to consider your business and what you can do for them.
advice, development, expansion, hiring, small business, target market
A study was recently conducted analyzing the correlation between education and leisure time. What they found was very interesting.
They found that those with more education tend to have less leisure time than those with less education.
I found this so interesting because it goes against everything we have thought about the American Dream since we first learned about it in grade school. The American Dream has always been to work hard, make a lot of money, and then have tons of leisure time. Well what they are discovering is that those with more money tend to make less leisure time for themselves than those with less money,
An important thing to remember is that those with less education have a higher unemployment rate that those with more education so this is a factor beyond their control. Despite this, what concerned me most was that those with less education and more leisure time spend less quality time with their children and less time exercising.
These are two things that are important for progression and to emphasize family values so I just hope that this is a not a growing trend. I am super idealistic but I want all Americans to progress and have personal goals.
american dream, Economy, leisure time, values
Looking for more opportunities for employment? Well, in connection with yesterday’s post, here is a list of the top 5 best places to start over.
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affordable housing, best cities, opportunities for employment