Author: Josh Keppen
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Inefficient Bookkeeping is Costing Your Small Business: Here’s How to Improve
40% of small business owners spend 80 hours on tax preparation/bookkeeping tasks each year — from manually entering transaction data into a spreadsheet to determining how to categorize transactions. The time spent on this process is frustrating enough. After all, you have other business activities to take care of, such as marketing and budgeting. But…
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What You Need to Know About Google’s E-A-T Algorithm
If you’re a small business owner, you’ve heard it over and over again: It’s important to convince Google your small business website is credible. Unless you’re a search engine optimization (SEO) expert, you probably have more questions than answers. Questions like: How do I get my website to rank higher on Google? How do you…
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Ask the Expert: The CFO’s Guide to Reducing Business Costs
According to the Small Business Credit Survey, 19% of small business owners are hard-pressed to find funds to keep the lights on. While making more revenue would obviously be the ideal solution, reducing business costs is often necessary to ensure the survival of your small business. At Neat, we’ve had to reduce business costs many…
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4 Tips to Improve Your Business’s Finances
Financial management is a pivotal part of every business. A business’s financial health directly dictates how it will operate. No matter how successful your business is, your financial situation should always be improving. Optimizing your finances will set you up for a great second half of the year. Having a healthy reservoir of cash will…
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23 Essential Bookkeeping Terms Every Small Business Should Know
Unless you have a background in accounting, the majority of bookkeeping terms seem like jargon and can be confusing. From “general ledger” to “chart of accounts,” these terms require small-business owners to spend time researching just to reconcile their books. It’s added pressure on top of an already complicated and overwhelming process. In this article,…
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Simplify Bookkeeping with These Five Types of Business Expenses
If you’ve used small-business accounting software, you’ve been faced with dozens of expense categories. (Does printing for a client go under the “Cost of Goods Sold” or “Office Supplies” category?) It can be overwhelming, to say the least. But it doesn’t have to be. At Neat, we’ve found that organizing business expenses into just five…
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4 Cybersecurity Tips for Remote Work
With the somewhat chaotic introduction of remote work, many companies were unable to take the time to create proper cybersecurity protocols. Although companies have a great deal of control while their employees are at the office, that luxury is no longer afforded when everyone is working remotely. Creating cybersecurity policies for remote work and educating…
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How to Calculate ROI Before Buying a Business
Founding a startup company can lead to excitement and rewards. On the other hand, if you want a way to own a small business with all of the rewards and a little less excitement, you might consider buying an existing business. If you buy the right company, you should already have a customer base, revenues,…
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How to Evolve with Your Customers
Your business’s health depends on keeping customers and attracting new ones. But as new technology hits the market, the economy changes (hello, global pandemic), or your customers’ expectations change, how do you ensure that your business stays current? At Neat, we’ve faced the challenge of evolving with our customers more than once. And luckily, we’ve…
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7 Tips to Improve Your Small Business Communication in 2020 and Beyond
Internal communication is a key success factor for nearly 79% of organizations, and yet 29% of employees believe their current internal communication tools aren’t working. If you’re not focused on improving communication in your small business, you need to read this. Why? Well, for starters, a report by The Economist Intelligence Unit revealed that poor…