Samir Sampat

Local SEO is a big game-changer for local SMBs looking to grow their presence and increase their online visibility. Of course, there is a lot involved in developing an effective strategy for your local search optimization needs. It starts with understanding that you should take a holistic approach to SEO and make the local optimization a part of the greater SEO plan so that everything flows together seamlessly.

Owning and running a small business is a lot of work. Fortunately, you don’t have to do all the work yourself. Outsourcing makes it easy for any business, of any size, to get all the services and solutions of a larger corporation, but without the investment in staff, training, and so forth. If you’re in the market for someone to manage the books, you might be thinking that it’s time for a CPA, or Certified Public Accountant. Although having a CPA on hand could be handy, it’s often more than most small businesses need. However, it may still be the ideal choice for managing your books in some cases.

Background checks can tell you a lot about potential candidates or employees that are already on your payroll. You can perform these checks to learn about employment and education history, potential criminal records, and so much more. Of course, to get the best information, you have to know how to go through the proper steps of running these checks in the first place. The good news is that there are third-party background screening services that you can employ. They will do all the hard work for you.

G Suite is now Google Workspace, offering a better platform for nonprofits to keep in touch with their teams, donors, and others. It’s becoming the place to collaborate, communicate, and create the things that your business needs. Plus, there are several different plans and pricing options available and when you are operating as a nonprofit, Google’s got your back with great discounts and even a free plan if you just want basic access. We’ll look at all the different plans available for your nonprofit in this guide and help you choose what’s best.

One of the best things you can do with business profits is to reinvest them in your company (or other business endeavors). It can be exciting to start making profits, of course, and sometimes that makes people question just where they should be spending (or reinvesting) their money. You should be prepared for this with a plan for what to do with the profits so that you don’t just fritter away the earnings without purpose.

In business, contracts are a part of day-to-day operations. Therefore, you’d think most companies would have them down and know how to navigate them in every potential outcome. Unfortunately, that’s not possible because any number of variables can change the terms and relationship of a contract in a matter of seconds. In some instances, it becomes an issue of figuring out how to get out of the contract without killing the relationship with the vendor at the same time.

In business, sometimes things just don’t work out. That doesn’t mean that everyone has to walk away angry or that there needs to be a total severing of the business relationship. There are plenty of ways (and reasons) to end contracts on good terms so that you can keep those relationships, even if you’re no longer working together in a business capacity. Sometimes, the right ending depends on the situation and the terms at hand, so as you’re reading this guide, think about your business and which scenarios would work best for the options provided.

Every business needs an SOP or set of Standard Operating Procedures. The purpose of this document is to ensure that everyone is on the same page and that your business has methodologies and protocols in place that ensure that products and/or services are consistently delivered every time. Creating an SOP is just as important as having one in the first place because although there’s not a single “right” way to do it, there are several ways that it can go wrong.

Today’s businesses have different operational trends than those that have come before them. Many companies are taking advantage of cloud technology and migrating to the virtual world, which invites them into a whole new selection of providers to assist them along the way. Known as “as a service” solutions, these are helping provide a better customer experience and improve business communications in the cloud.

For all its advantages, VoIP also has occasional glitches and issues that need to be resolved. Latency is a part of communication—it’s the amount of time that it takes for the audio to travel from the source to the output device, but it’s usually a matter of milliseconds so that it goes unnoticed. In some cases, latency can increase to a noticeable amount because of various network or connectivity issues. This can impact your call quality and the professionalism that you convey, so you want to avoid it at all costs.