Entries from August 2008 ↓

what are your employees doing?

At Business Ready we strongly believe in the importance of understanding the value of a company’s human resources. It’s important to stay connected to your employees and to understand your work environment from their perspective. While you’re busy trying to stay up to date with developments that affect your industry, competitive advantage and bottom line, [...]

when are employee benefits taxable?

Generally, one of the largest line items on a company’s income statement is Salaries and Benefits. It’s also one of the most important.
Ideally, a company’s human resources will work effectively to improve cash flow. In reality, quite often a startup’s human resources exist as a heavy overhead line item with no process to measure [...]

are customer surveys worth doing?

How often are you asked to participate in a customer survey? And if you do participate, how often do you actually care?
One of our loyal readers recently asked us a common question:
I am thinking of doing a customer survey, do you know of any particularly good sites that allow you to create a survey? [...]

bonus or raise?

If I had to choose only one word to describe the source of all pain and pleasure for a small business, it would have to be CASH. A startup lives and dies by its cash flow and keeping overhead expenses in check is one of the most critical factors in managing that fragile lifeline. [...]