TouchBistro Review: The Best POS System for Restaurants and Cafes
We’ve spent quite a bit of time recently examining Point of Sale (POS) systems for small businesses and one of the best that we’ve encountered is TouchBistro which is a specialist solution for the...
View ArticleVend Review: The Best POS System for Small Businesses Overall
We’ve spent some serious time examining all the options for Point of Sale (POS) systems for small businesses recently and while we’ve found a couple of sub-categories in which we’ve found some serious...
View ArticleBindo Review: The Best POS System for Mobile iPad Use
We’ve looked at more than a dozen POS vendors before choosing Bindo as our Best POS System for Mobile iPad Use. We listened to small business owners and worked out, based on their criteria, what the...
View ArticleThe Best POS Systems for Small Businesses in 2016
This is our roundup for the best Point of Sale (POS) software available to small businesses in 2016. We based our decisions on what business owners have told us is critical for them when selecting a...
View ArticleHow to Create an Effective Marketing Plan for a Small Business
“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” Benjamin Franklin Small business owners are aware of the need to plan. Many will spend hours working on their overall business plan to try and move...
View ArticleGetResponse Review: The Best Budget E-mail Marketing Software for Small...
E-mail marketing is, perhaps, the essential marketing strategy for small businesses. It’s personal, customizable and low cost. All you need to do is build a list of your customer’s e-mail addresses and...
View Article51 Ways to Define Leadership
The dictionary definition of leadership, whatever dictionary you choose, is rather dry and it doesn’t really cover the scope of what’s expected from a leader. Why? Because we all have our own vision of...
View ArticleZoho Books Review: The Best Accounting Software for the Smallest Businesses
We chose QuickBooks as our overall best paid accounting software for small businesses; so we did we add a final category for the best paid accounting software for the smallest businesses? In the main...
View Article10 Facebook Marketing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them For Your Business
One of the most important social media marketing tools in the world is Facebook. How could it not be? The network has over 1 billion members and while that still leaves a few billion folks without an...
View ArticleVisio: The Best Flowchart Software for Small Businesses in 2016
We’ve always been a bit miffed that flowchart software doesn’t come as a standard in most office suites for PCs. We think that there’s a strong argument that it should be incorporated in those packages...
View ArticleLucidchart: The Best Value Flowchart Software for Small Businesses in 2016
While we chose Microsoft’s Visio as our overall best flowchart software for small businesses in 2016; we recognize that it won’t be the right choice for every business. The two biggest hang ups are the...
View ArticleDraw: The Best Free to Use Flowchart Software for Small Businesses in 2016
Flowcharts are an integral part of business life today. Whether you are designing a process or a network diagram or just want to put something together for a presentation – you’re sooner or later going...
View ArticleContent Marketing Sins and How to Avoid Them
Content marketing is “the way forward” in the digital age. The idea is simple – create content and keep your audience consistently engaged with your brand. The trouble is that in practice; this isn’t...
View ArticleHow to Keep Your Employees Happy Without Giving Them a Raise
Money isn’t everything; in fact research shows that beyond a certain point (roughly $70,000 a year) money doesn’t motivate people very much at all. So how do you make sure that your employees are...
View ArticleHow to Have Better Business Meetings
The business meeting often instills a sense of dread in participants. It has become fashionable to mock and deride meetings both on TV (and in the cinema) and in real life. Eyes-roll, people yawn,...
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