How to Ensure Your Executive Team is Up to Your Standards

By LizzieWeakley on

As the owner or CEO of a business, you need a quality team of executives who will support you and help your company become a success. It can be difficult to choose whom to hire, however, and even more challenging to develop existing executives to your standards. Doing so is far from impossible—here are some effective ways to do it.

Executive Team - How to Ensure Your Executive Team is Up to Your Standards

Look for Prior Experience

This step is especially important for new entrepreneurs who will need all the help they can get to ensure their new business venture will be successful. For example, look for a candidate with prior experience handling financials for startups when looking to hire a CFO for your startup. Your executives’ experience should make up for your lack of experience in the areas where you are weakest. Read More

4 Tips When Exporting Business to New Markets

By karamasterson@gmail.com on

Not every business owner is satisfied with the success they have now. If that was the case, Apple may have never evolved beyond a business ran out of a garage. Most ambitious entrepreneurs wish to expand their companies exponentially. Eventually, this means moving beyond your own country and exporting your products to the rest of the world. Doing so requires a lot of research and strategy. It’s not something you should take on haphazardly.

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Labeling Approval

One thing that you may not give the most thought to is the labels you use for your products. However, the labels you choose to use for products exported internationally can be a big deal. In certain cases, if your label does not include the right kind of information and warnings, your product can be blocked for sale. This is the case, for example, for movies sold in the United Kingdom as well many different countries. Read More

Succeeding in the Restaurant Business: Three Things a Start Up Should Know

By BrookeChaplan on

The idea of opening your own restaurant may be something that you have considered doing for years. Actually taking that first step can feel like a big leap of faith. To set yourself up for having the best chance possible at success, here are three important things you need to know about the restaurant business.

Restaurant Business - Succeeding in the Restaurant Business: Three Things a Start Up Should Know

Get Your POS Software Right from the Start

Too many times, new business owners start thinking about the concept of the menu and decor of the building instead of focusing on the key parts that make up the backbone of a successful business. The exchange of money from your customers to you is one of those key parts. You should analyze different POS software systems to find one that will work smoothly for your business. These systems can make all the difference in how quickly customers can be given receipts, orders can be submitted, payment can be taken, and so forth. Read More