As your company grows, you’ll need to find new ways to keep the employees who helped get you there stick around for the next stage of growth. The standard salary and benefits packages will only take you so far, but a long-term compensation plan can keep key workers engaged for the long haul. “The bigger […]
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Financial statements are a complete mystery for far too many small-business owners. Some might scan a monthly income statement and balance sheet, but few feel comfortable analyzing a statement of cash flows, much less using the valuable information it has to offer to make critical business decisions. The advent of QuickBooks and other accounting software
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Benevolent hackers with IT cybersecurity firm EtherMon were able to remotely take control of several earth-moving excavators and drive them around via the internet during a recent risk assessment for a company with heavy industrial equipment. EtherMon CEO Brandon Reeves says the exercise, which was authorized by the company, was a stark example of why
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There’s no getting around it: Email is essential to modern communication, but it can also be a time-sink, especially for busy business owners. You can’t shut it down completely, of course, but the good news is there are plenty of ways for you to get a better handle on it, manage it effectively and get
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Back when he was a young student and budding artist obsessing over the latest release from Nintendo, Godric Johnson knew he wanted to create his own video games someday — but there was nobody to show him how to make that dream a reality. Today, Johnson, the founder of Baton Rouge-based video game developer Jetstreame,
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Most business owners probably have a pretty good idea of what their revenue and costs are in a given month, but what about some of the other numbers? What about the formulas that can give you indications of how the business might perform in the future, and the kinds of decisions you should be considering? It’s not magic; it’s financial forecasting.
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Leadership speaker and coach Dima Ghawi recalls starting a new job years ago teeming with enthusiasm, ready to make a positive difference in her new organization.
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Three years ago Baton Rouge entrepreneur Travis Broussard and his wife, Summer, had grown increasingly disillusioned with hawking candy, magazines and cookie dough to raise money for the school their children attend. “We got tired hitting up our family and friends selling junk we can buy at the grocery store,” Broussard says. “We really started
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This guest post is by Lee Price, content marketing consultant at Rep Cap. If your job includes marketing, you know that the “digital marketing” umbrella includes a head-spinning array of tools, tactics and technologies. Social media, infographics, video, content marketing, text alerts — you could spend your entire work week chasing down new ideas. While
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The rapid growth of virtual reality is opening the door for small businesses to use the emerging technology to their advantage, Baton Rouge VR specialist Morgan Krutz says. Krutz offered a group of business owners and entrepreneurs suggestions on how to employ the technology — from immersive interactive environments for real estate professionals to digital
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