Getting Paid

[ad_1] Mike Michalowicz, author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, on when and how business owners should take a paycheck. His advice: Make it a percentage of your revenue but also consider how efficiently you run your business. Part of our Coaches Corner series. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Amazon.com Inc quietly shuttered a pay-per-click advertising program that allowed businesses to divert traffic from the retailer’s platform to their own websites on Tuesday, saying it would permanently discontinue the program in October. The program allowed many businesses that are not necessarily sellers on Amazon’s online marketplace to buy ad space …

[ad_1] Financial technology (or “fintech”) has become an extremely trendy industry for startups because of its high growth potential and opportunity for nearly endless disruptive innovation. In fact, these scrappy companies have the potential to take away $4.7 worth of revenue from traditional financial services, according to Goldman Sachs. Fintech …

[ad_1] The nationwide switch from magnetic stripe credit cards to EMV chip cards is well underway. Is your business ready? If not, you’re leaving your customers more susceptible to fraud and your company wide open to some serious liability. If you don’t swap your swipe-and-sign card reader out for an …

[ad_1] Mike Michalowicz, author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, explains the critical elements of an effective collections policy. He shares his best tips to make it clear and easier for clients to pay you faster. Part of our Coaches Corner series. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] When I meet with different business owners, entrepreneurs and marketing executives, I am consistently asked a similar question. “Jason, how can I can generate the most leads at the lowest price point?” There is nothing more frustrating for a business than spending money on a marketing campaign and not …

[ad_1] You have probably heard it everywhere: video marketing is the future — and the present. Hubspot claims that “video content in no longer an option, it’s a necessary component of any successful marketing strategy.” Here’s the lowdown on video marketing: So even if you’re not a big believer of video as the …

[ad_1] It’s long past New Year’s Day7 and that means tax season in quickly approaching. Business owners across the nation will be spending the coming weeks sorting through accounts and records in an effort to piece together a picture of their business’s finances over the past year. I know how …

[ad_1] Protect your sales, profit and brand by downloading this free, comprehensive guide to understanding and preparing for EMV credit cards. Businesses that fail to update their payment processing systems by Oct. 1, 2015 will be exposed to new and possibly devastating liabilities. Prepare your business today. Most business owners regard billing as a …

[ad_1] This story appears in the November 2011 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » Apparently, the check isn’t in the mail for many U.S. businesses. The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) found that 40 percent of small-business owners reported up to one-third of their receivables more than 60 days delinquent. …