How to Provide Health Insurance to Employees without Spending a Fortune

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For small business owners hiring and retaining best employees is crucial. Your best employees can help you grow the business to new heights and compete effectively in the market. It is paramount for you to offer best salary and benefit package to your employees so that your business remains preferred place to work. One of the most sought-after benefits by employees today is health insurance. When you consider rising cost of healthcare in the U.S. it is not surprising that employees want the safety and security of health insurance that employers provide. That is why small business owners should be concerned about health of their employees and provide health insurance that is economical and easy to use.

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3 Simple Tips to Grow Your Small Business


Every small business owner dreams of becoming the next Amazon or Google. While there is nothing wrong with this aspiration the sad reality is that the chances of getting to that stage is one in a million. But that should stop you from trying hard. Even if you can grow you business to a fraction of Amazon it can add substantial value. Your strategy and execution plays a big role in determining how far you will be able to take your business. Here are 3 simple tips anyone can follow:

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4 Things You Need to Do Before Opening a Business


The world is yours for the taking. That is why everyone should at least consider starting their own business. It’s the best conclusion to a lifetime in one industry. You know what makes a company successful and what makes it unsuccessful already. The only thing you have left to learn is how to build a company from the ground up. To help you succeed on your own, follow this simple guide:

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The State of UK Food Vans Industry


Business is booming for the UK’s food van industry. It’s increasing in popularity due to the amount of street food that is available to a person when they are on the go. Although this is something that is relatively new to the UK, countries like Thailand have had a long popularity in street vans, and they have proven to be successful. Research done by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations have said that 2.5 billion people eat street food around the world every day.

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How Much Could You Save with a Cleaner Office?


Germs are constantly multiplying in the workplace. One eye-opening fact is that the average work desk can be up to 100 times less hygienic than your kitchen table, and 400 times dirtier than the average toilet seat! When you’re working in close proximity with other colleagues, it’s no wonder that germs and illnesses can spread so quickly, leading to several employees needing sick days away from the office.

Whilst you might consider the recruitment of a cleaner an unnecessary expense, DCS Multiserve, specialists in industrial cleaning, investigate why it could be one of your greatest investments. In a recent report, it was revealed that sickness absences cost employers on average around £29 billion per annum. Here, we discuss the cost of sick days versus the cost of keeping your workplace clean and germ free. Could a clean office save you money in sickness pay-outs?

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7 Tips for Accelerating Business Growth without Breaking a Bank


Every business wants to emerge successful and be profitable, but in order to expand you’re going to need a vision of what you want to achieve and a plan to get you there. You don’t want to waste time, but you also don’t want to waste money.

If you’re like most business owners, you have a lot of great ideas about how to grow. But maybe you’re so busy working hard in your business that during the day-to-day struggle, you run out of time to work on your great ideas. Making a guide for you to follow will help get everything done.

Let’s focus on what you can do to make your business boom by incorporating different ideas without diminishing your available funds.

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4 Tips to Follow When Selling Your Business


You have nurtured a business venture for months, years, maybe even decades but you feel that now is the time to sell it. For any number of a myriad of reasons, you have come to the decision that it’s time for you to part ways and leave your entrepreneurial project in the capable hands of another like-minded businessperson. Your mind has been made up and you’re ready to set the wheels in motion, so what now?

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3 Ways to Cultivate High Employee Morale

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After nearly 15 years in the exhibit and trade show industry, entrepreneur Bev Gray started her company, now named Exhibit Edge, after a request for services from one of her clients. This was 25 years ago. Today, she stands at the helm of this, now, multimillion dollar enterprise. Her mission is to meet all the changing demands of exhibitors’ trade show needs in any venue. Throughout her career, she has discovered how important high employee morale is for any company. The following three steps reveal simple ways to develop it.

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What Does It Take to Turn an Idea into Business


You might have read countless inspirational tales about entrepreneurs who defied the odds and went from nobody to the owner of a towering global corporation but these stories often don’t help. Reading the advice that you should “follow your dreams” and “keep working hard” doesn’t really do a lot to help you with the technical aspects of building your own business and achieving the same level of success.

Perhaps part of the reason as to why you can’t find definitive answers online is that there’s no definitive mathematical formula to creating a profitable business given that the economy and the consumer are always changing. Still, that doesn’t mean there isn’t some rough form of science when it comes starting a business on the right track. There are certainly smart business practices and not-so-smart business practices. Here’s a rough sort of rulebook to get you on your feet and underway with creating your own empire. Let’s turn that innovative entrepreneurial idea into a grounded reality.

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9 Online Tools to Help You Better Manage Remote Employees


In this day and age, saving money on business expenses is at the top of the list of things to do for most business owners – and that’s why so many businesses are opting to hire remote employees to work from the comfort of their own homes, and sometimes, even a different country.

Hiring employees from different countries can often decrease staff wages significantly. Saving money on office space is also another reason for hiring remote employees. Sometimes, businesses do it just to improve working productivity.

Whatever their reasons for doing it, it’s important that managing their remote employees the right way is one of their main priorities. If you’re thinking about going down the same path of hiring remote employees, have a look at some of the top online tools that will help you get the best out of them.

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