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Branching Out:  Staffing Issues to Consider When Opening a Second Location
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Posted by: SBOC Team, Apr 19, 2012

By Iris Dorbian. Imagine this scenario: After some early struggles, your small business is starting to make money.  Your customers are loyal and steady and you are at a point where you can easily pay your overhead and vendors (while taking a healthy salary for yourself). More so than ever, you are ready to open a second location. Such a proposition presents exciting opportunities for a growing business but it also offers considerable challenges. The biggest hurdle—aside from finding a...
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All in the Family: Five Tips on Mixing Business with Relatives
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Posted by: SBOC Team, Mar 7, 2012

by Jen Hickey. How do you run a business with family? When starting a business, hiring your wife, siblings and/or children is usually the most affordable and reliable option. However, as a business grows, and more family members are brought on board, problems often arise.  How those conflicts are dealt with will determine whether your business will survive to the next generation or fail in this one. According to the Family Firm Institute, 70 percent of all family-owned businesses will not...
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HR Headaches: When Should You Get Some Help?
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Posted by: SBOC Team, Sep 8, 2011

by Christopher Freeburn. As any small business owner knows, dealing with people is a crucial element of your business’s success. This applies not only to customers or business partners, but to your employees as well. Creating a productive and well-functioning workforce should be a top priority for every small business. Unfortunately, the more employees you hire, the more complicated things get. Even for very small companies, managing personnel can be a very demanding task. Managing...
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Tell Me About Yourself
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Posted by: SBOCTeam-KhWmv, Feb 19, 2009

Great interview questions that get to the heart of a job candidate's capabilities By Reed Richardson Be prepared You would never run right from a conference call into a job interview if you were trying to get hired, so you shouldn't engage in the same, careless behavior if you're going to be the one doing the hiring. Instead, spend at least 15 to 30 minutes before an interview going over a job candidate's resume so you can prepare some intelligent questions specific to their background and...
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How Many Current Employees are in Your Departure Lounge?
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Posted by: SBOCTeam-KhWmv, Jan 29, 2009

By HRExpert Nobody likes to talk about it, even though it is happening in workplaces all across America - employees who have decided it is time to fly the coop. Departure lounges are overflowing with these types of employees - all waiting for their final boarding call. Employees rarely start a job thinking they will tour around the company for a while and then seek greener pastures, and yet it happens all the time. Here are five things you can do to prevent employees from taking flight:...
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Campus Candidates
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Posted by: SBOCTeam-KhWmv, Jan 20, 2009

Hiring recent college grads makes great business sense. Plus, given the chance, they could even teach you a thing or two By Max Berry Despite what some recent figures from America's job market would have you believe, companies of all sizes are hiring new college graduates at a higher rate than in years past. A recent survey conducted by CollegeGrad.com found that 60% of American companies surveyed plan to recruit more grads in 2008 than they did last year. The reasons for the upswing are...
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Engaging From Afar
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Posted by: SBOCTeam-KhWmv, Oct 8, 2008

Keeping remote employees engaged can be a difficult task for a small business owner. But when managed well, your off-site employees can be just as productive as the ones you see every day. by Max Berry Sometime during the 20th century, the water cooler assumed a crucial position in the American office-it became a trading post not only for gossip and recaps of last night's television shows, but also for ideas and advice. With a growing number of 21st-century employees working remotely, the...
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Interviewing 101
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Posted by: SBOCTeam-KhWmv, Apr 17, 2008

By Chris Freeburn Hiring the right employees is an immeasurably important task for small business owners, since they will be the people who keep the business operating on a daily basis. They may also be the face or voice of your business that customers interact with when they visit your office in person or call on the phone. The level of competence, interest and interpersonal skills your employees display to customers and to each other in the workplace will largely determine whether your...
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