Category: Small Business Information
Helping Small Business: Three Tips for Becoming a Female CEO
I’m heartened to see female CEOs in all sorts of organizations — political, business and not-for-profit — but women still represent a tiny minority of CEOs worldwide. Just 5 percent of Fortune 500 CEO positions and 5.3 percent of Fortune 1000 positions are held by women. Those numbers have to change. I say that not simply because women deserve more representation in business, but because companies need to reflect the make-up of their consumer base,Read More
Infographic of the Week: Which Social Network is Best for Your Small Business?
Infographics have become quite hot items. And it’s little wonder why – packed with lots of info and eye-catching visuals, they’re a super shareable piece of content. We’re constantly coming across great infographics that condense so much useful information into a digestable visual, and we thought it’s high-time we shared. This week, the infographic that caught (and kept) our attention was found on Visual.ly (the visual content gurus). It centers around social media for small businessRead More
How to Write a Business Plan
Planning for Success You’ve no doubt heard the expression, “Failing to plan is planning to fail.” Many entrepreneurs write a business plan only when they need to secure start-up financing. However, your plan is far more than a document for banks and investors to read; it’s an invaluable roadmap for launching and growing your business. In order to put your business concept on paper, you need to think through and research the many factors thatRead More
Personal Branding Life, You are the Hero in the City
I’ll best illustrate this with the use of a listening-to-the-radio analogy. If you listen to the radio, you have a couple of (or more) stations you like to listen to, maybe for the music they play or the programs they feature. However, should you hear something you don’t like (songs you don’t appreciate, too many commercials), odds are you’ll change the station. Even more displeasing is where there’s too much static noise on a particularRead More
Small Business Website with WordPress
Who want to be a self-reliant person by profession of any kind of small business, can explore you with WordPress web life style. Business opportunities are growth faster in the modern edge of internet and computer technology. What is value of your product and brand without work with internet? WordPress web engine are giving such opportunity to open a pioneer concept of your small business. Any kind of small business you hold with the webRead More
Question and Answer About Small Business with Stephanie Lynch
Stephanie Lynch is the CEO and Founder of OnTheQT.ie, a website dedicated to finding and showcasing the best out of the way places in Ireland. Stephanie talks about how she started and why ‘off the beaten track’ tourism is growing. So what is On The QT all about? We’re a tourism website with a difference. So we promote the places that are out of the way and where people go back again and again. ItRead More
Small Business Column: Budget 2015
As the dust settles, Kehlan Kirwan looks at Budget 2015, and what it may mean for Irish small businesses The intention of Budget 2015 was to make sure that most people felt money was staying in their pockets rather than haemorrhaging as a result of further government money gathering. The exercise worked. Over the ensuing days of review, it became apparent, that for the first time in seven years, people seemed upbeat about what theRead More
Small Business Merchants: Obama Announces EMV Program
President Obama today signed an Executive Order launching the new BuySecure initiative, to help businesses and consumers keep financial data secure. The initiative is designed to reduce identity theft. And there’s important news of interest to small business merchants. The initiative is intended to accelerate the move to EMV chip-based credit cards and charge cards. Speaking at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau this morning, President Obama noted that more than 100 million Americans have hadRead More
Bitcoin: a beginner’s guide for entrepreneurs
From pints in the pub to seats on private jets, businesses are using this new currency with great success Bitcoin emerged in 2009; it is a peer-to-peer currency created solely by software. It means that one individual or business can pay another without the need to involve a bank. Transactions can take place anywhere in the world and can be concluded very quickly – usually in less than 10 minutes and can potentially involve veryRead More
October 2014 Report: Small business optimism drops
SUMMARY OPTIMISM INDEX September’s Optimism Index gave up 0.8 points, falling to 95.3. At 95.3, the Index is now 5 points below the pre-recession average (from 1973 to 2007). Four Index components improved, six declined. Two declined by 10 points total, accounting for the entire decline in the Index score. Unfortunately, the two that fell drastically were job openings and planned capital outlays, which are directly relevant to GDP growth and hiring. LABOR MARKETS NFIBRead More