Friday, March 19, 2010

5 + 2 Small Business Time-Saving Tips

Time is money, and in a down economy you might as well double whatever you think your – and especially your stakeholders’ – time is worth.

So I really appreciated freelance copywriter Denise McGill’s 5 time-saving tips for small business owners that appear on Small Biz Survival.  These run the gamut from things you’re likely already [...]

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Benchmark Your Company Against Our Typical 2010 Small Biz Award Applicant

"Am I already a Winning Workplace?"

This is one of the most common questions we get, and it really makes sense given the economy and, by extension, companies’ ability to invest in their workplace.  They understandably don’t want to spend any more than is absolutely necessary here.
One way to answer to this question is to benchmark themselves against [...]

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The Typical 2010 Top Small Company Workplace Award Applicant Company

Yesterday and today I’ve been doing some serious number crunching to find trends in the employee engagement research Winning Workplaces does through our annual Top Small Company Workplaces recognition project – in this case, for the 2010 applicant pool that finished applying last month.
As a result, I can now tell you what a typical 2010 [...]

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Close to 10 Percent of Our 2010 Small Biz Award Applicants Have Had No Layoffs in the Last 3 Years

This new article on CNNMoney.com profiles six companies on Fortune magazine’s 2010 "100 Best Companies to Work For" list that have never had a layoff.
I’m guessing six is the total number on Fortune’s 2010 list, or this article would have touted and profiled more firms.  A 6% no-layoff (ever!) rate is indeed pretty impressive, especially [...]

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LAST WEEK to Apply for 2010 Top Small Company Workplaces

I am looking at the countdown clock on our application website for 2010 Top Small Company Workplaces and currently small firms have 5 days, 11 hours, and 59 minutes to submit their application for contention this year (by midnight in your North American time zone).
The prize is worth the effort, which typically has taken applicants [...]

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