Sage Small Business Solutions

Congratulations! You’ve made it all the way to step 30 of 30 Steps to Build a Better Business. The last thing that you need to do at the end of any action you’ve taken to improve your business, is to plan what you’re going to do next. Maybe you’ve gotten the basics in order and [...]

Advertising and marketing are the most common methods for getting your business noticed by the public. But they require your own effort and money, and the person receiving them is aware that you are the one telling them how great your business is. In this step to Building a Better Business, we’ll briefly discuss some [...]

Today’s step to Building a Better Business is a lesson straight from the 90′s comedy-movie classic, Boomerang. Take a look at the good advice John Witherspoon has to offer Eddie Murphy in this scene from the flick:   Coordinating is the key to more than impressing others with your, um… fashion sense, it’s also the secret to [...]

I’m not a big proponent of incurring a lot of debt to fund or build your business. But even if you’re a small business owner that is completely committed to bootstrap-financing your venture, there will come a time when you’ll need more cash than you currently have to continue growing your business, or you won’t want to [...]

Whenever I got out of town on a long trip, and especially if I’m going out of the country, I make sure  that before I leave, I’ve given some vital information to people I can depend on in case of any emergency. As a small business owner, you should have a similar contingency plan in place [...]

Birds of a feather, flock together. And when they do, they tend to share all sorts of resources and information with each other that make them better prepared than birds that are flying solo. In this step to Building a Better Business, your goal is to find a flock, or an association, to join and [...]