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5 Tips for Handling an Employee with Attitude

These five, easy-to-master tips can turn around negative attitudes and allow employers to assume their proper roles in the workplace.

How to Handle Embezzlement in the Family Business

This article explains what actions you should take when you think a family member may be embezzling from the business.

6 Steps for Increasing the Value of Your Business

Columnist Lisë Stewart offers six steps business owners can take to ensure a fair price if and when they put their business on the market.

Implement Suggestive Selling and Increase Your Close Rates

This action plan for implementing suggestive selling into your business model will help you increase close rates.

4 Steps to an Ideal Winterization Service Marketing

Promoting your business during Fall months can generate wintetime sales and revenue

Strategies for Keeping Your Middle Management Team in Play

This article provides some guidelines for attracting and retaining middle managers.

5 Rules for Minimizing Bad Hires

These five rules will help you hire the right people and avoid making bad decisions with potentially negative consequences.

20 Questions with Lee Rosenberg

Lee J. Rosenberg, P.E, chairman of Rosenberg Indoor Comfort, in San Antonio, discusses travel, his HVACR career and the challenges of owning a family business.

Double Your Commercial Maintenance Agreements

Here are six actions you can take to increase your commercial maintenance agreement business.

High Performers: How to Get Them,...How to Keep Them!

High-performing employees are individuals every small business owner dreams of hiring. But how do you find them? How do you recruit them? And how do you keep them? Here are five strategies.

Purposeful Leadership: The Importance of Being Objective

Here's a great exercise that proves how being objective can help you create optimum processes, procedures and organizational structure.

A Touch of Class

Publisher Terry Tanker continues his series on establishing leadership principles with this month's column on acting with class.

It's About the Money

Publisher Terry Tanker struck a chord with readers last month with his comments on motivation. This month, he continues that discussion with some perspective on being honest about what truly motivates business leaders.

5 Keys to the Art of Price Conditioning

Discussing price earlier in a call – a practice called Price Conditioning – can be more successful in getting customers to do business. Here are five key steps for implementing Price Conditioning

Why Data Security is Everyone's Responsibility

Learn six steps you can take right now to protect your business from cyber criminals.

General Business Liability Insurance

If you own, operate or are starting a business, you need general liability insurance. But what does that mean? What protection does it afford? How do you determine your coverage needs? How does it work?

SEO in a Contracting World

Goettl Good Guys Air Conditioning Repairmen uses these 10 basic steps to maximize their use of SEO. How does it work?

20 Questions with Peter Hungate

Peter Hungate, owner of Pacific Air Systems in Tacoma, WA, discusses business processes, ordering fleet vehicles, mentors, customer service and giving up company control in order to grow.

5 Techniques for Passing the Family Business Torch

Here are five techniques a family-owned company’s new generation of leaders can use to honor their family legacy and tradition while still putting their own ‘stamp’ on the company culture.

Purposeful Leaders Understand Their Strengths AND Their Weaknesses

Discover some practical steps to help identify “who you are” and where you may need others on your team to step in to help fill the gaps