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Latest in Growing a Business: Advice, Tips and Resources to Help You Take Your Business to the Next Level

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Tips for Perfecting Your Elevator Pitch
By Marisa Sanfilippo | April 01, 2024
Learn the dos and don'ts of an elevator pitch, and why it's an essential business speech.
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Article
Payroll Checklist: 10 Steps to Process Payroll
By Max Freedman | March 29, 2024
Processing payroll is critical for businesses. Refer to this payroll checklist to ensure you stay compliant and don't miss vital payroll processing steps.
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Exporting Invoices From QuickBooks
By Max Freedman | March 28, 2024
Exporting invoices from QuickBooks is quick and efficient. Learn how to do it here.
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Article
10 Unexpected Ways Facebook Is Good for Your Business
By Bennett Conlin | March 28, 2024
Facebook can help you build your online brand, create meaningful connections with customers and potential employees, and increase overall productivity.
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What Are Hyperadoptive Customers, and How Do They Benefit SMBs?
By Casey Conway | March 28, 2024
Hyperadoptive customers rapidly change behaviors and are willing to try new brands and products. Learn how to identify and keep hyperadoptive customers.
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Twitter for Business: Everything You Need to Know
By Saige Driver | March 28, 2024
Twitter is a powerful tool to raise awareness about your business, engage with customers, and develop leads. Learn how to use Twitter for your business.
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The CRM Metrics You Should Know
By Matt D’Angelo | March 28, 2024
Analyzing key metrics can help drive success within your business and make you more competitive. Here is how your CRM can help in those efforts.
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Pinterest for Business: Everything You Need to Know
By Saige Driver | March 28, 2024
Pinterest offers a great visual space to market your products or services. Learn how your business can set up and use this platform successfully.
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Industry 4.0: How Technology Is Revolutionizing the Manufacturing Industry
By Adam Uzialko | March 28, 2024
Learn how Industry 4.0 is optimizing manufacturing with artificial intelligence, 3D printing and other technologies.
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Facebook for Business: Everything You Need to Know
By Max Freedman | March 28, 2024
Facebook has advertising and engagement tools that benefit small businesses. Learn about Pages and ads, and get tips on engaging customers.
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8 Big Data Solutions for Small Businesses
By Pamela Oldham | March 28, 2024
Learn the best way to deal with complex information so you can gather, analyze and use big data to benefit your company.
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Review
FleetUp Review
By Neil Cumins | March 22, 2024
This review covers Fleetup's GPS fleet management platform by cost and features for SMBs.
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What Is Invoice Factoring?
By Dock David Treece | March 18, 2024
This guide explains invoice factoring, a funding option available to businesses that turns outstanding invoices into cash in exchange for a fee.
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Article
What Is Contact Management?
By Julie Thompson | March 18, 2024
This guide describes contact management and how it works to improve a business's communications with its customers.
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Article
What Does It Cost to Hire an Employee?
By Eduardo Vasconcellos | March 11, 2024
Learn the costs of hiring employees and how to keep your expenses manageable when recruiting, hiring, and onboarding a new team member.
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7 Email Marketing Metrics You Should Track
By Jamie Johnson | March 07, 2024
Email marketing is profitable, but only if you track the right metrics. Here are seven email marketing metrics to grow your business.
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What Is Workspace Virtualization (And Does Your Business Need It?)
By Sara Angeles | March 06, 2024
Learn how workspace virtualization can provide greater flexibility and efficiency for your employees while staying within a limited budget.
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10 Employee Recruitment Strategies for Success
By Adam Uzialko | February 27, 2024
These recruiting strategies will help you find the best candidates for the job.
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Article
What Are Claim Scrubbers?
By Max Freedman | February 26, 2024
Claim scrubbers lead to more revenue more quickly while freeing your front-office staff's time and improving payer-patient relationships.
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Article
How to Calculate Cost of Goods Sold
By Dock David Treece | February 23, 2024
Tracking cost of goods sold (COGS) is an important indicator of financial health and critical for tax deductions. Here's how to calculate COGS.
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What Is a Merit Pay Increase?
By Nicole Fallon | February 16, 2024
Learn what merit pay is, how to award merit pay increases, and best practices for implementing a merit pay policy.
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What Is a Flexible Spending Account (FSA)?
By Skye Schooley | February 15, 2024
This guide explains what FSAs are and how they work, as well as what employers should know about offering these benefits to their employees.
Article
Best Free Visual Voicemail Apps
By Neil Cumins | February 15, 2024
Visual voicemail apps translate voicemail messages into written documents. Learn about seven visual voicemail services that can help you share information.
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The Pros and Cons of a Term Loan
By Jamie Johnson | February 15, 2024
A term loan is a one-time upfront payment to fund a one-time project or long-term business growth. Learn whether a term loan is right for your business.
Article
How to Become a Commercial Drone Pilot
By Sean Peek | February 14, 2024
Interested in drone technology? Learn how to become a commercial drone pilot or put drones to good business use.
Article
The Benefits of Patient Kiosks
By Max Freedman | February 14, 2024
Patient check-in kiosks improve both the patient and provider experience from start to finish. Learn how in this guide.
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What Is the Small Business Innovation Research Program?
By Max Freedman | February 13, 2024
Joseph Hennessey, Small Business Innovation Research Adviser, explains
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Section 179 Deduction: Rules and Limits
By Dock David Treece | February 08, 2024
Section 179 lets you deduct the cost of a business asset in the year you buy it or place it in service. Learn if it's the best choice for your business.
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Tax Deductions You Should Take and Some Crazy Ones to Avoid
By Sally Herigstad | February 08, 2024
Some tax deductions may cause the IRS to flag your tax return while others could even land you in trouble. Learn what deductions you can and can't take.
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What Are Payroll Liabilities?
By Julie Thompson | February 08, 2024
Payroll liabilities are payroll expenses a business owes but has not paid. These liabilities can appear every time you run payroll.