If your business is like many other traditional cleaning companies, you started by cleaning an office, apartment building, retail store or other commercial building. Adding additional clients may have included more office buildings, medical clinics and perhaps even expanding into manufacturing facilities. But have you stopped to think about expanding into residential cleaning?

In China, the word guanxi is in the top ten vocabulary list of all successful businesses. Great Chinese businesses and business(wo)men just cannot survive and thrive without developing excellent guanxi with organizations of authority, such as the state-owned banks. But to a deeper extent, guanxi penetrates all manners of Chinese society.

This is the perfect topic for the first month of a brand new year! Staying late started innocently enough: “If I just stay a little later today, I can catch up’ on this work I haven’t been able to g...

Business forms are an integral part of any official communication. Be it a business setup, private company, government organization, or small home office, business forms are of great help to record various processes, dealings, and communications. Invoices, statements, purchase orders, packing lists, labels, letterheads, envelopes and business cards are all examples of business forms. Business forms contain repetitive information and are usually required in bulk. They are required while doing business with another company or within the company. Whatever the reason, these forms are important.

Everybody likes to see big fat pay cheques coming in, hell some of us even deserve them from time to time but what makes a client keep handing over the readies over and over again and how can you as a lowly graphic designer among a sea of equally unidentifiable no-marks hope to secure new graphic design or website design contracts? Best read on my friends as we give you the insider knowledge to equip you in this never ending rat race to swindle your fellow man

Ohio has had some bumpy economic rides in the past as the auto industry has taken hits from Japanese Imports, high steel prices, wars, recessions, NAFTA and now robotics. These issues have caused complete boom and bust cycles for the automobile manufacturing sector in Ohio. When workers are laid off, then those high paying and generally union jobs slow the money flows in the other sectors, such as retail, professional services, banking, real estate, etc.

You may think that it would be wonderful to be in business with your spouse, but the truth is that when life partners become business partners unspoken assumptions can cause significant problems.

No matter what you do, there will come a time when a customer will ask for a refund for some reason or another. Do you give it to them?