Things You Can Do Now To Improve Cash Flow and Profits
April 24, 2012 – 9:16 pm | No Comment

I’ve missed posting for a couple of months here. Sorry. It’s been a busy time with buying shows, year end financial planning and dealing with some internal issues. During this time I was going over …

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Inventory Planning

Keep your cash flowing by planning the sales, inventory levels and delivery times for each department.

Staffing

Labor costs can be huge for a small business. Plan what you can afford to pay people, then train them to do their job.

Cash Planning

The details of where the cash is going and how to make the best use of it.

Customer Service

It is, of course, people who buy things from us.

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Got Rules, Here’s How to Use Them to Lose a Customer
August 14, 2010 – 10:28 pm | No Comment
Got Rules, Here’s How to Use Them to Lose a Customer

If you are like most businesses you have some policies or rules that to help you run your business. They are necessary to running a good business. The policies could include whether your customer can …

Start your Employees off Right and Create Customers for Life
April 7, 2010 – 6:57 pm | No Comment
Start your Employees off Right and Create Customers for Life

In today’s world filled with competition from all sides it is important to have the most competitive advantages that you can.  A well trained employee is high on the list of competitive advantages. How well …

Embed Trust in Your Organization
March 24, 2010 – 8:01 pm | No Comment
Embed Trust in Your Organization

We looked at building trust with your customers in the last post.  In that post, we examined actions that you and your employees can do to build trust with each customer. Taking care of each …

Build Trust, Build Your Bottom Line
March 9, 2010 – 6:33 pm | No Comment
Build Trust, Build Your Bottom Line

We all have retail stores and companies that we feel good doing business with.  There can be a variety of reasons that we go back to that business and it is likely that trust is …

Improve your Business Today
October 14, 2009 – 6:27 pm | No Comment
Improve your Business Today

The times are tough for small businesses. We all know that. There are many things that we cannot control. Yet there are things that a small business owner can do to improve their business. Tough …

Staying Focused on Taking Care
September 1, 2009 – 9:47 pm | No Comment
Staying Focused on Taking Care

Cash flow management and taking care of your customer can seem like different ends of the retail or small business spectrum. If money is on your mind and you are worrying about how you are …