12 Tips for Scheduling Staff Over the Holidays Without Burning Anyone Out
The holiday schedule is where small business goodwill is won or lost. Customers want you open longer, your team wants time with family and everyone is tired by …
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15 Service Business Ideas With Low Startup Costs
Service businesses are the classic low-cost way to become your own boss: you sell your skill and time, so there is no stock to buy and often no premises to …
Lead Magnets That Work: 12 Ideas for Small Businesses
A lead magnet is something useful you give away in exchange for a contact detail, usually an email address. The good ones attract the right people, the ones who …
How to Handle Sales Objections: 12 Common Ones Answered
An objection is not a no. It is a buyer telling you what still worries them. Small business owners often hear "it's too expensive" or "let me think about it" …
12 Tips for Managing a Remote Team in a Small Business
A remote team can give a small business access to better talent, lower overhead and more focused work. It can also slide into confusion, silence and missed …
How to Write Cold Emails That Get Replies
A cold email lands in the inbox of someone who has never heard of you and owes you nothing. Most get deleted in seconds. The ones that get replies are short, …
12 Remote Work Tools and Habits for Small Teams
Remote and hybrid work succeed or fail on the tools a team uses and, just as much, on the habits around those tools. A small team does not need an enterprise …