‘SOHO Today’ Archives
Losing Out With Leads? Take a Real Look at Lead Response Time
By Erica Bell, business.com Many studies have shown that the faster a company responds to a lead, the more likely that company is to close. One survey found that responding to a completed form within 5 minutes versus 10 minutes led to a 900% increase in contact rate. In a [Read More]
How to Hire Top Talent on a Small Budget
By Minda Zetlin, Inc.com Forget the one-hour interview, says the founder of energy drink company Solixir. Try these tactics instead. In a start-up company, every employee counts, and it’s important to have top talent: talented, smart, enthusiastic person in every job. [Read More]
Tax Reform for Small Businesses
By Barbara Weltman, Barbara’s Blog Everyone agrees that changes are needed because current rules are too complex and too uncertain (with expiration dates of some breaks every year or two), and rates are too high. The Ways and Means Committee has issued a draft that [Read More]
ObamaCare: Affordable Care Act Alert
The Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) is a fringe benefit particularly useful now for all employees and for many small businesses as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). For example an employee now needs to exceed 10% of AGI in most cases to have deductible [Read More]
Make a Connection: Connecting Communities to Illinois Business Opportunities
You are invited to join The Illinois Department of Central Management Services (CMS) at the next educational workshop event for the small business community on June 13th at Arturo Velasquez Technical Institute. Download the PDF flyer here. The Illinois Department of [Read More]
Oct. 1 Illinois Health Insurance Marketplace Opens for Enrollment
Beginning October 1, 2013, the Illinois Health Insurance Marketplace will open for enrollment. Pursuant to the Affordable Care Act, the Marketplace will be a website where those seeking insurance coverage can shop for health care and determine if they are eligible for [Read More]
Tips for Overcoming Early HR Hurdles
By Steve Goodman, Entrepreneur.com On the road to entrepreneurship, you’re sure to face many hurdles — biggest of all is often HR. Between finding talent and hiring staffers to training employees and managing their productivity, the time you spend on human [Read More]
5 Steps To Successfully Make Your Video Viral On YouTube
By Jake, HomeBiz.Bukiki.com One of the most effective ways to bring more traffic to your website is by creating a viral video and publish it on YouTube. However, many people are doing that without getting any satisfying result. That’s because they don’t know the [Read More]
8 Common & Critical Small Business Website Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make
By DMiracle.com With small businesses one fact is true today, your business website should be a central hub for your business. Your business website should effectively represent your brand while providing ways for your leads to easily engage you. All roads in your [Read More]
5 Barriers to Becoming a Social Business
By Connie Bensen, ConnieBensen.com It’s no small feat for a company to transition to become a social business. One would think that it’s easier for smaller organizations, but companies of all sizes face the following barriers. 1. Traditionalists are afraid of change. [Read More]
