Today I want to post about that one statement, that one comment that customers make at the end of your presentation that you hate to hear, and the words are, "Let me think about it." Don't you just hate that when you do a presentation, you think you've done everything right, you're ready to make the clothes, and the customer says, "Let me think about it." Why does the customer say, let me think about it? Well, there are several...
With the new year quickly approaching, many people are taking time to reflect back on the peaks and valleys of the current year. As a small business owner, the next few weeks provide you with an opportunity to look back on the positives and negatives 2019 brought your business and make a plan to tackle this coming year. Below, we’ve compiled a list of tips for you to include in your small business resolutions for this coming year. Invest in...
Nowadays, starting a small business is much easier than it used. Besides, you can start an online business without having any kind of prior experience, so a translation agency will be quite easy to maintain. Here’s everything you need to know about having a translation agency as a small business. Make a Plan First, you will need to put together a plan that will guide you. It is a common practice to have a business plan before you actually start...
Each year, billions of dollars go unclaimed as unfiled income tax returns. The IRS reported $1.4 billion in unclaimed refunds for 2015 alone. While that might seem like an unrealistic number, all that money came from an estimated 1.2 million taxpayers who failed to file their tax returns. Unfortunately, the IRS keeps the unclaimed refunds after three years, but if you were one of the millions of taxpayers not to file a tax return in 2018, it’s not too late...
Are repeated email reminders not getting your “please pay me” message through? How about 30, 60 and 90-day invoices, or repeated weekly phone calls? In our experience, sending one type of message again and again won’t get great results. Why not? Because: It’s easier to miss. What if your customer rarely checks email? Or hates talking on the phone? Or has a sleepy assistant managing their paper mail? We had one CloudBooks user tell us that his customers sometimes have thousands of...