Without a doubt, business plans, spreadsheets, and process flowcharts are essential for the smooth functioning of a successful business. Many hours of number crunching, market analysis, and carefully crafted what-if scenarios can produce a nearly fail-safe plan of action. Unfortunately, a strong plan in writing means nothing without committed people to bring the ideas to read more
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Using Facebook to market your business
In times past, a business might get away with ignoring social and digital media as a marketing tool to spread the word about their products and services and still be successful. These days you don’t have to look farther than the typical waiting room, customer line or restaurant table to find irrefutable evidence that things read more
Best Practices May 2017
Economic growth is a good thing. Sustained, controlled, and over a period of time, steady growth is the fuel that drives a community to be successful. The more tax-paying businesses and people there are, the greater the community’s potential to offer the resources and services necessary to attract and sustain them. Over the past decade read more
Best Practice May 2017
The cost of physical space for a business typically accounts for a significant percentage of its overall operating costs. In parallel with home ownership, there are advantages and disadvantages to owning your commercial property vs. renting it. We at Strictly Business know that business owners are pulled in a thousand directions and might not have read more
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Throughout the past 25+ years profiling businesses and business leaders in the North Country, Strictly Business has learned a thing or two about what it takes to be successful. Small business owners in particular have a lot on their plates, simultaneously balancing the roles of CEO, payroll, benefits, purchasing, accounting, and countless other jobs all read more