Owners of an equestrian business face challenges unique to any other business. Turning a profit can be difficult and you have to diversify your offerings in order to generate enough income. The margin of error is very small and small mistakes can end up costing your
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If you reconcile your books and realize there is a discrepancy, it can be hard to tell where you went wrong. How do you track down the error, fix it, and prevent it from happening again? Before you pore over every statement and transaction, it can be
Read more →To most people, the word “budget” elicits thoughts and feelings of being limited. It means curtailing impulse spending, drawing out payments over time, and being realistic with income. Business budgeting incites similar feelings. It means taking minimal risks with the business and sacrificing short-term gains for long-term
Read more →When you go into business for yourself, you imagine your days filled with doing what you love. What most people don’t realize is that you will become bogged down very quickly with daily minutiae. Record keeping, creating second and third invoices, and inputting receipts are not exactly
Read more →Technology changes and updates so rapidly today that we often forget how new our basic systems are. iPads have only been around for 9 years! Apple’s iCloud was only introduced 8 years ago. It’s been less than a decade since revolutionary technology has changed the way we
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There’s nothing worse than diving into a stack of receipts, bills, and notes that have been piling up for months. Did you misplace any important receipts? Will you miss out on deductibles? Paper can be a monster that throws a shadow onto otherwise joyful work. When running
Read more →Reputation management is a relatively new area within marketing. In a way, it’s similar to digital public relations; it’s the management of a company’s reputation online. There’s also a customer service component to reputation management. Unlike public relations workers before the internet came along, today’s reputation managers
Read more →2019 is right around the corner, which makes today the perfect time to think about your business goals and where you want to be one year from now. As year-end wraps up, you’ll soon know your financial numbers for 2018. You’ll then be able to evaluate how
Read more →Do you know if your marketing efforts are paying off? More importantly, do you know which marketing campaigns and channels are profitable and which are losing money? Marketing is one of the toughest areas to calculate return on investment, and one of the reasons is because customers
Read more →With holidays approaching, this is the perfect time of year to take a moment and reflect on all of the things we are grateful for. Being grateful may sound a bit trite, but it’s also the number one, hands down, fastest way to bring more positivity and
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