Supplier financing is a situation in which a supplier delivers the goods or services to the buyer using some type of deferred payment scheme. This has benefits for both the buyer and seller, and is common in many situations. However, if you are an entrepreneur just starting out, it could be hard to get supplier […]
How To Improve Work Life Balance
April 17, 2012 By 1 Comment
Working is certainly important, but we should be careful to ensure that our work never consumes our lives. Similarly, we should also be careful not to let our personal lives interfere with our job. Therefore, a balance is needed to control the relationship between our careers and personal lives. This is especially true for freelancers […]
Employee or Independent Contractor?
January 18, 2012 By 6 Comments
Economic factors in recent years have led many businesses of all types and sizes to focus on building a contingent workforce rather than an employee base. While this helps relieve financial hardships for many individuals and companies, it may also lead to some confusion regarding a particular individual’s role within a company. If a worker […]
Why I Had a Hard Time With Holiday Hiring
January 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I do a lot of holiday hiring, and I felt like this year was extraordinarily difficult to find great, talented individuals. I was looking to hire roughly 70 individual for various jobs – all just above minimum wage jobs. Despite reports of so many unemployed, looking for work individuals, I had to do roughly 350 interviews to staff these […]
Should You Insure Packages You Mail?
December 15, 2011 By 1 Comment
With many small businesses moving online, and many individuals starting to purchase more things on the internet, shipping insurance starts to become an important question. Should you insure your packages? Is it worth the cost to insure your packages? To make matters worse, there are always the horror stories about shipping: lost packages, damaged good, […]
