Business/Marketing/Sales

If you've got even a single employee – or for that matter, if you run your business as a sole proprietor...

Microsoft, General Motors and IBM have long recognized the virtues of having an employee handbook. What works for the big-time operators...

How's business for you? I hope it's good, or at least improving, but if you aren't getting the results you want,...

An old adage says, “If you’re not growing, you’re dying.” Growing a business in a down economy is challenging, and onsite installers...

Missouri homeowners with financial need can now get loans to help cure failing onsite treatment systems. The Missouri On-site Wastewater Improvement Loan program,...

Whether you've been in business for a while or are just starting, you need to get information about your services out...

Yes, breaking up is hard to do. But planning ahead can ease the pain. If you're in business with others, chances...

Last month’s column explained how your credit report and credit score can affect your borrowing, whether on a business or consumer loan....

The typical contractor books flights, hotels and rental cars online, buys books online and watches movies online, but books appointments with clients...

Glen Gonsorowski, second-generation owner of Florian & Sons Excavating, grew up watching his dad periodically refocus the business to succeed in a...

Property taxes are always higher than you’d like, and these days, because real estate values have fallen in many cities, the taxes...

Reputation is everything,” says Alex Mauck, third-generation owner of Goodman Sanitation in Troutdale, Ore., a suburb of Portland. “As customers get smarter,...

I’d like to see you in my office at the end of the day.” This is one of those requests that just...

Microsoft recently reported some confusing statistics. In a survey the company commissioned, 29 percent of small businesses said they used cloud computing...

If you’ve been grinding your teeth in frustration trying to come up with a plan to take the bite out of dental...

Back in my small-town newspaper days I had to write about a fire that started from a natural gas explosion and burned...

Residential Sewage Treatment Co. has roughly 2,500 onsite systems under maintenance agreements, yet the company has never installed a system. Residential Sewage has...