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There is no precise definition when it comes to financial or economic collapse. The term is often used to describe a variety of bad economic conditions such as severe and prolonged depression along with high bankruptcy and unemployment rates; a breakdown in normal commerce due to hyperinflation; or even a sharp increase in the death rate caused by a bad economy. Major historical economic collapses have had both political and financial causes such as trade deficits, wars, revolutions, famines, depletion ...

Excel is part of Microsoft Office’s productivity suite, a line of software that also includes programs such as Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. Microsoft released its most recent version of Office — and Excel — in 2010. The Excel program gives you access to spreadsheets and all the tools you need to make computations therein. Excel’s spreadsheets ...

Below are some of the “Cloud” small business services that we use or have used in the past.
Check them out and feel free to ask us any questions on them and if needed we can help to quickly implement them for clients.

If you own or run a small business, you owe it to yourself to take a look at the wide array of solutions these products have to offer – both in combination ...

With thanks to the O2 Ideas Room for blog posts…

While business plans are synonymous with startups, business planning is important for all businesses regardless of their age or maturity. A business plan is essentially a future oriented description of how you intend to trade as a commercially viable operation. Given that the plan is essentially predictive in nature, it will need to contain a number of assumptions which the reader will need to accept as being plausible in the context ...

With thanks to the O2 Ideas Room for blog posts…

We learned of another small business blog that might be of use.

Google has launched it as part of their small business series.

So we thought we’d share it with our readers!

You can visit the new blog here

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With thanks to the O2 Ideas Room for blog posts…

Cash flow is the lifeblood of any business and these days is even more important than ever.

Below are a number of simple approaches to use when operating your business.

1.     Minimum Stock Levels. Keep your stock to a minimum. Only hold the stock that you know you can sell in the next 60 days. A business that normally holds 100k of stock, reducing this by 25% will inject 25k into the ...

Small Businesses really are running out of  reasons to keep their records up to date.

A quick update of your income and expense history will keep your records straight and provide invaluable insight to you best customers, most frequent expenses, and the health of your business.

Outright.com will take care of the work; simply log in, record your income. and expenses, and go back to work.

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What do FreshBooks, Shoeboxed, BatchBlue, MailChimp and Outright all have in common? Aside from being Web 2.0 businesses who serve the small business market, they are also the founding member organizations of The Small Business Web.

An exciting initiative that launched earlier this year, The Small Business Web is a partnership of businesses dedicated to upholding a central tenet: “A passion for customer service, an excellent ...