Four Steps to Successfully Grow Your Business
Naomi and Reid are thinking about retirement. Sure, they’re still young, in their early 30’s, but they know that if they don’t start socking away some money now, they will never save enough to…
9 Resolutions to Boost Profitability
Whether you’ve been in business for 10 months or 10 years, you’ve probably turned over the calendar to 2017 with the goal of increasing profits. I know I have. For me, I spent the last week of 2016…
Excelling at Excel: Mastering Spreadsheets to Master Your Business
Who doesn’t love a good spreadsheet? Beautiful and clean formats with elegant formulas and cell references, they are the epitome of grace in business. They not only look great but they can help…
Actionable Sales Goals
How much revenue do you want to earn in the coming year? $150,000? $300,000? If you’ve read books like The Secret you know that you need to put out into the universe what you want. But putting down…
The Procrastinator’s Guide to Year-End Analysis
The first week of January, newspapers and magazines offer a flurry of tips on creating and sticking to New Year's Resolutions. By the first week in February, most have been tossed out the window.…
Thinning the Herd: Letting Go of Unprofitable Clients
As entrepreneurs, we’ve come to accept that being our own boss isn’t always peaches and cream. We deal with dreaded tasks and chores (bookkeeping, anyone?), and service difficult clients. With some…
Why Bother?
This article is a guest post by Laura Meister of Farm Girl Farm in Sheffield, MA. When I started growing vegetables ten years ago, it was all I could do to keep up with the start-up math: how many…
QuickBooks Online vs. Desktop
QuickBooks Online vs. Desktop Without reservation, I recommend that all my clients use QuickBooks to manage their bookkeeping and garner information to make managerial decisions. While there are…
A Guide to Buying and Selling Local Foods In New England for Buyers and Producers
Last month, Noelle and I had the pleasure of attending the SBN Local Food Trade Show. Fifty vendors and hundreds of other food producers and buyers were in attendance for a lively day of networking…
Are You Ready? Preparing for Massachusetts’s Commercial Food Waste Ban
Does your food business produce more than a ton of food waste per week? If so, now is the time to plan for the change! In Massachusetts, new regulations will ban food waste from the waste stream,…