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The Business Tools You Should Be Using
We've collected and organized the best business tools and articles to help guide you through many of the decisions that you will need to make when starting and running your own business. This section includes guides, information, and decision-making tools to help guide you whether you are in the early phases of starting your business or are trying to accelerate growth.
Each section below provides tools to help you determine what is right for your growing business needs. We want to help you through the problems associated with starting and growing your business as much as we want to help you prevent the problems that will inevitably happen. From startup to explosive growth, the information here will help you accomplish and exceed your goals.
Startup
Are you thinking of starting a business? Have you decided to start a business, but you don't know what you have to do?
In this collection of tools and articles, we help you think through the process, from coming up with your million dollar idea to setting up the legal structure of your company.
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Finance
Keeping up with your company finances can seem like a never-ending job. Entrepreneurs want to grow their business, not spend endless amounts of time on financial management. When you start a business, you want to focus your time on why you started your business in the first place, not managing your finances.
We've collected our best guides and content to help you pay your bills, manage your finances and most importantly. Topics range from payroll to accounting to cash management to credit card processing.
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Operations
As your business grows, so do the things that you need in order to run that growing business. From office infrastructure to phone and conferencing systems, there's a lot of things to keep together.
The operations of a company can be the last thing that an entrepreneur thinks of, but can really help you succeed.
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Sales & Marketing
You can't grow your business without a strong sales and marketing team and effort. The way companies sell and market themselves is constantly changing in today's information-heavy world. You need to have the right tools to manage and maximize these efforts.
Most companies use their website as a focal point for many marketing activities.
Managing your email marketing, social marketing, website content and your content marketing campaigns can be challenging to keep straight. The right suite of tools can help to lessen or eliminate that confusion.
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Technology
Using the right technology can help a small business leverage limited capital to their advantage. The wrong technology can make a great company fail.
We want to help you put the right technology tools in your hands for what you need to accomplish. Outside of people, one of the most significant investments a company will make is in the technology that they use. These tools and articles will help you make better decisions.