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Archives: 2015

Make A Plan For Business Continuation

Make a positive plan to continue your business for future generations. When it comes to business continuation planning, the phrase “you can either fail to plan or plan to fail” certainly applies. As a business owner, you may have created a formal business plan or have done no planning at all. But if you fail to plan your own exit strategy, forces beyond your control...

October Is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Breast cancer affects one in eight women, and the National Breast Cancer Foundation estimates that about 220,000 women are diagnosed each year. Thankfully, early diagnosis and treatment most often leads to a full recovery. Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an annual campaign to raise awareness of the disease and the critical importance of testing for early detection, as well as to raise funds for research...

Don't Settle For Minimum Insurance Coverage

When you have to buy a product or service - i.e. something that you know is important, but at the same time isn't exactly the first item on your 'must have' list - there's a natural tendency to only get the bare minimum. As the old saying goes, money doesn't grow on trees, and because of that, earnings are a precious commodity that requires financial...

Why Business Insurance Is Important To A Growing Business

What's the most challenging part of being a small business owner? The answer to this depends on who you ask and the industry you're talking about, but for many, it's marketing, according to the results of a recent survey. Nearly two-thirds of people who own a company describe the advertising process as being the hardest aspect of business ownership, the Harris Poll found, with 40%...

Celebrate Labor Day & Enjoy Time Off

The majority of our lives are spent focusing on work. Even our days off can find us obsessing over various work-related issues – sitting at a computer or watching our smartphones, answering work emails, or planning for an upcoming project or meeting. We have a very hardworking culture in America, and it can be tough to completely "disconnect" over a weekend and get the break...