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5 Biggest Mistakes in Healthcare Staffing by Susanne Mariga, CPA

Mike Michalowicz

PK Scheerle, CEO of Gifted Healthcare, warns that sometimes, new healthcare staffing firms in an eagerness for growth and customers, against their better judgement trade hours for low margin sales. When this happens a Healthcare Staffing Agency can end up in a place where they find high volume business does not equal profitable business.

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Small Business Accounting 101: 9 Steps to Get Your New Business on Track

Up and Running

But when your business grows and you find you’re investing too much of your time on bookkeeping each month, paying a professional do it for you—so you can focus on other important aspects of your business—would be a smart move. Team up with a CPA. The majority of sales-oriented businesses end up having to pay sales tax as well.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

Business model: o They bought a lot of ad inventory (banner ads/advertising) driving people to signup forms, converting (fill out form) and sold leads, o Initial strategy was first comparison shopping and then monitoring and upselling on more savings. Later they became big business in Financial services lead-gen.

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Entrepreneurial Tips For Launching A Start-Up

YoungUpstarts

Understand the economics of your business. Entrepreneurs should design their business model around one customer and then build out from there. If the latter question out weights the former question, then the entrepreneur should rethink their business strategy. Clearly articulate your vision.

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When DIY Is A Terrible Idea

YoungUpstarts

However, DIY is a terrible idea when the task is complicated and failure can bring down your entire business. This is why taxes are the ultimate DIY snare for business owners. Entrepreneurs and small business owners feel that filing tax returns (sales; payroll; franchise, etc.) should be a DIY process.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

With SEM, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale). In this more popular model these days, advertisers do not pay for each appearance of the ad, but only when a user clicks on an ad and is redirected to the advertiser website.

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

We’re looking at our lean business planning is about strategy, tactics, concrete specifics including milestones, metrics, tasks and schedule, and essential numbers to run a business, all of which lead to managing cash flow. That’s the sales forecast, the spending forecast and the cash flow. It’s a new business?

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