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It is important to consider you want to position yourself in the market. But most business owners are thinking about short term business strategies when they need to be marketing based on how they want their company perceived in 10 to 15 years.

No ego here. Just truth. The self proclaimed greatest pitchman alive today says, “You’re a CEO huh? So what? I know companies that are worth $10,000 who have a CEO. My card tells you what I do, guaranteed. What do you do guaranteed?”

Customers come from the people who have never done it before and people who have done it before but are unhappy with the way they are doing it. You aren’t going to steal a competitors happy customers and the unhappy ones won’t come unless you offer something unique.

You’ve got the employees. Now what? Most employers assume that the employee know how to do the job. But in order to do a good job (which most employees want to do) they need to know what you are expectations are.

How you position your company is vital to understand and your decision to make.

Some tips on how to manage your books so that you stay on top and find success.

Setting up the books. Data entry and filing. Analysis of what that data means.

It costs a lot more to hire a new employee than to retain good employees. How do you keep them happy and at their jobs. It’s not as simple as throwing money at them.

You really need to know what goes into the profit loss statement AND what the balance sheet is telling you. Where is the money?

You’ve decided to take on employees. Now you have to decide if you are going to deal with employee turn-over or if you want to keep good employees for the long haul.

What is your role as the business owner in bookkeeping. It’s more than entering the data. You can pay someone to do that.

How do you design a compensation system for your business. Daniel Diener covers some of the basics to get you started.

How do you keep good employees? If you want to keep them, make sure they know what they are supposed to do. Make sure you know. And treat them well.

Daniel Diener discusses the importance of small business bookkeeping. Not just for taxes and payroll, but in helping to determine your most profitable product and improving the marketing of it.

Build a personality around your brand and be earnest.

Where does money come from? If you are like me you probably thought, with some help from the U.S. school system that the government printed it, and maybe that each dollar was worth some gold or silver in Fort Knox. This simple video explains it all.