How to Write a Marketing Plan
Experts know that careful planning is integral to marketing success. Here's your guide to crafting a thorough marketing plan - and learning more about your c... Read more
Leadership and Managing
Recent Leadership and Managing Guides
How to Hire a Web Developer
Have you reached the point that you need a professional working on staff to build and maintain your web presence? Here's your guide to the best practices for... Read more
How to Manage an Independent Contractor
Due to the independent nature of contract work, it can be a tricky thing to manage, even for experienced CEOs. Here's a look at the best practices for when t... Read more
How to Find a Business Mentor
Whether you are just starting out or running a large company, it helps to have a mentor to whom you can turn with questions large and small. Read more
How to Write an Offer Letter
An offer letter communicates to a potential employee the terms of employment and can head off arguments—or even losing that employee who you spent so much ... Read more
How to Hire an HR Director
Growing companies add employees at a rapid clip. They also tend to handle human resources in an ad hoc function for too long. Here's a look at the best pract... Read more
How to Hire a Sales Manager
Adding a sales manager is a pivotal moment in the life of a growing company. It's also expensive. Here is a step-by-step guide for incorporating the best hir... Read more
How to Hire an Executive Assistant
If scheduling and clerical work is slipping between the cracks, it might be time for an assistant. Here's your guide to a smooth hiring process. Read more
How to Hire an Office Manager
Looking for someone to keep your office in order, do clerical tasks and fill-in elsewhere? Here's your guide to the best practices for hiring an office manager. Read more
How to Reduce Your Small Business Tax Bill
A look at helpful year-end tax tips, advice on making smart elections, and good tax resources for the small business owner. Read more
How to Maximize Holiday Sales and Profits
Advice for small businesses on how to prepare for the holiday season by generating customer loyalty, implementing timely marketing, and determining inventory... Read more
How to Price Business Services
Advice for small businesses on how to manage pricing strategies by calculating costs, considering different pricing models, and evaluating customer and compe... Read more
How to Navigate Business Insolvency
Advice on bankruptcy, liquidation, reorganization, dealing with creditors, and financial insolvency. Read more
How to Conduct Annual Employee Reviews
Many entrepreneurs struggle when it comes to providing workers with concrete feedback on how they can improve their performance. Here are tips and techniques... Read more
How to Assemble an Employee Handbook
As your company expands, you'll probably want to write down policies and rules that govern your employees. Here's how to create an employee handbook that is ... Read more
How to Assemble a Board of Advisers
How to set up a board of advisers to help you run your small business Read more
How To Choose A Health Care Plan: Behind the Premiums
The formula: Most insurers start by using your group's demographics to arrive at a 'best case' rate that assumes everybody is healthy. Th... Read more
How to Find and Hire Good People
A guide for entrepreneurs and small business owners on screening, writing job descriptions, background and credit checks, and more. Read more
How to Launch Your Company's 401(k) Plan
How to set up a retirement plan that maximizes employee contributions, minimizes fees, and puts your staff on the path to making wise investment choices. Read more
How to Fire an Employee
Your first order of business shouldn't be showing the employee the door. It should be creating a plan of action to help the employee avoid termination all to... Read more
How to Set Strategy and Be an Effective Leader
How to develop a winning team, put together a successful growth strategy, and build a great board of directors. Read more
How to Manage Employee Compensation
Advice on what to pay employees, how to develop winning teams, and whether it's smart to share equity with members of your staff. Read more
How to Hire Your First Employee
Your business is off the ground and now you're ready to hire your very first employee. What should you look for when staffing up at a start-up? Here are some... Read more
Overcoming Burnout
The entrepreneurial experience can be a lot of things: exhilarating, liberating, and, alas, tiring. Serious company building requires a great amount of e... Read more
How to Fire Decisively
Firing an employee is never easy, but these 5 tips can make showing an employee the door a less daunting task. Read more
How to Hire Wisely
Forget the gimmicky tests and interview books. Here are some tips you really can use to make a great hire. Read more
Finding Balance
Getting carried away in your work is easy to do when you're an entrepreneur. Running a business becomes an integral part of your life, and often, the lin... Read more
Leading Through a Crisis
Terror attacks, war with Iraq, natural disasters -- any extraordinary event could have a devastating effect on the health of your business. To help business ... Read more
Leading Through a Crisis
Terror attacks, war with Iraq, natural disasters -- any extraordinary event could have a devastating effect on the health of your business. To help business ... Read more
Waking Up to War
Here, Inc.com assembles its most recent articles on the Read more
