Tag: digital world
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Preparing for Tax Time: A December Guide for Individuals
Starting your tax preparation in December is the perfect time to get ahead. With the right approach, you can avoid the stress of last-minute scrambling, ensure accuracy, and even uncover opportunities to save money. Whether you’re a seasoned filer or approaching tax preparation for the first time, here’s how you can start preparing for tax…
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How to Protect Your Small Business from Disasters
Disasters, whether natural or man-made, can disrupt any business. Preparing for these events is crucial to ensure your small business can quickly recover and continue operations. Here are some essential steps to help safeguard your business: By taking these steps, your business will be better prepared to handle and recover from unexpected disruptions quickly. For…
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Ask the Expert: An MBA’s Guide to Cash Flow Analysis
Research from Bank of America tells us that of all the businesses that conduct yearly cash flow analyses and forecasts, only 36% succeed. That number jumps to 80% for companies that perform this exercise monthly. That begs the question: If performing a monthly cash flow analysis more than doubles a company’s chance of survival, why…
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Optimizing Your Business’s Financial Strategy for the Digital World
Managing a thriving business is, first and foremost, dependent on how well it can keep up with the competition within ever-shifting markets. While this has always been at the core of business success, it is especially true in the 21st century. With new technology being produced and improved upon at a rapid rate, there is…
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How a Bookkeeping App Lets You Complete Bookkeeping Tasks in Minutes, Not Hours
As a small business owner, you’re starved for time. Seventy percent of small business owners say they’re even too busy to eat during the day. One significant time- (and lunch-) stealing activity? Bookkeeping. Forty percent of small business owners report spending 80 hours per year on accounting and tax prep. Manual tasks like categorizing transactions…
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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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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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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 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…