Your Guide to Growing Your Business

Claim scrubbers lead to more revenue more quickly while freeing your front-office staff's time and improving payer-patient relationships.

Tracking cost of goods sold (COGS) is an important indicator of financial health and critical for tax deductions. Here's how to calculate COGS.

Discover the benefits of customer surveys, learn how to develop a customer survey and decide how often to conduct customer surveys.

Learn what merit pay is, how to award merit pay increases, and best practices for implementing a merit pay policy.

CRM data analytics can help you track sales and service performance and improve your methods. Learn about the types of CRM analytics and how to track them.

This guide explains what FSAs are and how they work, as well as what employers should know about offering these benefits to their employees.

Visual voicemail apps translate voicemail messages into written documents. Learn about seven visual voicemail services that can help you share information.

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.

Interested in drone technology? Learn how to become a commercial drone pilot or put drones to good business use.

Patient check-in kiosks improve both the patient and provider experience from start to finish. Learn how in this guide.

Joseph Hennessey, Small Business Innovation Research Adviser, explains

NFC mobile payments help businesses process payments quickly and easily. Learn more about this technology and how it can help your business.

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.

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.

Payroll liabilities are payroll expenses a business owes but has not paid. These liabilities can appear every time you run payroll.

Businesses use acquisition loans to acquire other businesses or strategic assets, such as equipment. Learn how they can help your company.

A sales funnel is a marketing term for the customer journey as they move toward purchasing. Learn about the sales funnel stages and how to build one.

CRM funnels are similar to sales funnels. Learn how to create a CRM funnel that works with CRM software to automatically track, engage and nurture leads.

Terminating a remote employee involves preparation, the actual termination and a post-firing follow-up. Learn what's involved in firing a remote employee.

National Days provide unique opportunities for businesses to embark on advertising campaigns. Learn about 50 days you can use in national advertising.

When combined with a keyboard or a stylus, your iPad goes from a nice tablet to a powerful tool for business. Tablets are portable, affordable and easy to use.

The GDPR went into effect in 2018. Here’s how it is impacting businesses now and what you should know to keep your company in compliance.

A tax audit is a review of your reported data to ensure it is correct. Here is how a small business can avoid one and how to handle it when the IRS calls.

Employers must designate employees as exempt or nonexempt. Learn the differences between exempt and nonexempt workers and how to classify them correctly.

If your employees are regularly working past their 40 hours a week, you are liable to pay them overtime. Find out what that means for your business.

Gross pay is what employees earn before taxes, benefits and payroll deductions are withheld. The remaining amount is net pay. Learn how to calculate each.

Calculating gross wages is the first step to compensating employees properly and keeping accurate payroll records. Learn about the process with this guide.

Learn the differences between hourly and salaried employees – and how to determine which compensation model is right for your business.

Simple scents work best at getting customers to buy. Here’s how smells can make people want to spend money.

The State Unemployment Tax Act is a tax that states use to fund unemployment benefits. Determine your SUTA rate and employer obligations for paying SUTA.