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Reevaluate Your Hiring Procedures in 2018
Quickly hiring and onboarding employees is a critical way for your business to save time and money. After all, hiring searches are costly in both money and energy, and employees who are not properly onboarded are more likely to leave their job—creating yet more expensive hiring searches. In the New Year, take a look at…
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Ditch These 4 Interview Strategies
Your interview process is supposed to help you find the best job candidates for your business, the people who will help you succeed. But it only works if you’re taking the right approach in interviews and asking the right things. Many businesses—including both large and small—use interview techniques that don’t work. Are you making some…
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Questions for Your Parental Leave Policy
There are many factors that go into a business’s decision on whether to offer parental leave. There are legal questions: businesses with 50 or more employees are required by law, while certain states have set requirements for smaller employees, as well. There are the logistical questions: what resources do you have available to enable you…
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Unique Funding Opportunities for Women-Owned Businesses
While women own 30 percent of small businesses in the United States and are expected to generate a third of the new jobs, they receive less than 5 percent of the small business loan money each year. To fill this gap, organizations, nonprofits, and other groups are stepping up to offer funding opportunities specifically for…
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What is This Financial Statement?!
You probably started your business because you love what you do. But you’re probably a lot less passionate about the various and sundry financial statements that necessarily require so much of your time. The ADP blog team takes a look at many of the business financial statements you are responsible for completing, including the balance…
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What Tax Planning Should You Do Before the Year Ends?
With the New Year fast approaching, it’s time to make some final decisions about your tax plan for the year. The ADP blog team has rounded up some tips from a small-business tax specialist with some things you can look at and do in the final weeks of the year, particularly for businesses focused on…
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Do You Know the Basics about Angel Investors?
Getting a business off the ground takes money, and for some businesses, that means getting outside funding, whether from investors or lenders. Sometimes, an angel investor is the right answer. But what is an angel investor, and when are they an appropriate funding source? How do you go about pitching to an angel investor? Get…
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Holiday Staffing
For many businesses, the holiday season is the busiest time of the year. But at the same time, that’s when many people on your team are looking to take time off for traveling and celebrating those very same holidays. So how do you satisfy these conflicting problems? The ADP blog team has some suggestions, including…
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It’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint, When It Comes to Small Business
The first Sunday in November can only mean one thing: it’s the day of the TCS New York City Marathon event. Whether you run or not, you can’t help but watch the race and cheer on its participants. This year, I was excited to see Shalane Flanagan win the marathon — by one whole minute!…
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Traits of a Successful Sales Team
Your sales team is so critical for growing your business—without a customer, you don’t have a business! There are certain personality traits and characteristics that you can look for as you add new people to your sales team—or that you can inculcate in your existing team members to help your business grow. The ADP blog…
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