Vantage Circle

MARCH 30, 2025

A paper published in the Journal of Management and Social Sciences on the topic Effects of Recognition-based Rewards on Employees' Efficiency and Effectiveness highlights that 57% of high-performing companies use recognition plans over incentives compared to 36% of low-performing companies. Here's how businesses can get it right: 1.

Teamwork

Thrive Workplace

JUNE 11, 2025

Summer is quickly approaching, and for many business owners, that means planning vacations, switching to flexible schedules, or working remotely to watch the kids at home. But, while you’re enjoying longer days and looser routines, your business still needs a reliable address to receive mail, packages, and official communications.

Mailing

Attendance Bot

JULY 23, 2025

At its core, roster software helps businesses plan, assign, and communicate work schedules more efficiently. Modern roster applications and staff roster software offer several clear advantages: Save Time : Automate shift planning, notifications, and approvals using intuitive roster manager software.

Payroll

Attendance Bot

JULY 25, 2025

For multinational companies and small businesses navigating wage-hour rules, staying compliant isn’t just about avoiding fines—it’s about building trust with employees, ensuring fair pay, and maintaining operational consistency across borders. Best for: Businesses already using QuickBooks or Intuit payroll.

Payroll

Attendance Bot

JULY 10, 2025

In this blog, we’ll explore how practical, scalable small business workforce planning approaches can help retail teams punch above their weight, improving coverage, reducing burnout, and delivering consistent customer service across every location. The good news? It can be proactive, data-informed, and employee-friendly.

Retail

Launch Work Places

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

They’re a good fit for solo pros, small businesses, or organizations looking for a professional image and office address in a reputable location. Using Business Address Providers Suppose you want to work from home or from wherever your business may take you. It can range from anywhere between $10 to $200 + per month.

Mailing

Launch Work Places

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Key aspects include open-plan designs, focus zones, adaptable workstations, and shared facilities. Open-Plan Designs Open-plan designs eliminate traditional barriers, creating spacious areas that encourage interaction and teamwork. Some of them have already adopted, or plan to adopt, flexible office solutions to meet both needs.

Flexibility

Vantage Circle

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Employee scheduling software is a digital tool that helps businesses organize and manage employee work schedules efficiently. By automating tasks like shift planning, time-off requests, and availability tracking, it eliminates scheduling conflicts and ensures optimal resource allocation. What is Employee Scheduling Software?

Software

John Mattone

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Such development is critical for succession planning and maintaining high leadership standards. Action Phase : The executive coach and the leader collaborate to create and implement a tailored Individual Development Plan (IDP). The scope of business coaching also includes individual talent development.

Coaching

Success

JUNE 17, 2025

But whether you’re leading a small business, a big corporation, a class of students or a family, effective leadership often comes down to having the ability to inspire others to achieve certain outcomes. Good leaders can possess a variety of traits, from confidence to charisma.

Delegation

Vantage Circle

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Customizable Onboarding Plans : Tailors onboarding experiences to fit individual roles, ensuring relevance and better engagement for new hires. List of 10 Best Employee Onboarding Software BambooHR : Best onboarding software for small business and for streamlining onboarding with automated workflows.

Onboarding

Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 11, 2024

However, businesses will still be allowed to operate probationary periods to ensure fit for roles, with discussions suggesting a maximum of six months. The bill also seeks to promote flexible working by making it the default option where possible, and mandates that large employers create action plans to address gender pay gaps.

Government

Work Life

JUNE 25, 2025

Americans love small businesses. We dedicate a week each year to applauding them, and spend Small Business Saturday shopping locally. Yet hiding in plain sight is an enormous challenge facing small-business owners as they age: retiring with dignity and foresight. And right now, conditions are far from ideal.

Small Business

Attendance Bot

AUGUST 11, 2025

We’ll also compare SMB vs enterprise HR strategies to help small business leaders make smarter decisions when it comes to people operations. Every business needs a plan for managing its people—but not every business needs the same one. How Does a Strategic HRM Plan Work? What Is An HR Strategy?

Onboarding

Vantage Circle

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In today’s Start-up boom, as a small business owner, you’re constantly striving to stand out in a crowded market. Advantages of Offering Employee Benefits: The Power of Employee Benefits Many small business owners hesitate to invest in employee benefits, assuming they’re too costly. A survey by Frac.tl

Small Business

Vantage Circle

JANUARY 11, 2025

Advanced Features in Top-Tier Plans: Collaboration Tools for Hiring Teams: Integrated tools for sharing feedback, notes, and scores allow recruiters and hiring managers to collaborate seamlessly and make consensus-based hiring decisions. Willo : Designed for SMBs prioritizing simplicity and efficiency in early-stage candidate screening.

Software

Vantage Circle

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Go Hire : Best for startups and small businesses, centralizing candidate tracking and job posting across multiple sites. " (Source: Capterra ) Cons Some small businesses may find Workable’s pricing on the higher side compared to other options available in the market.

Software

Great Place to Work

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Visa created a mentorship program called “Bridge for Billions,” where its employees can meet one-on-one with small businesses from underrepresented communities around the world over a five-month period. Visa employees help their partners define a business strategy, develop financial projections, and create growth plans.

Banking

Vantage Circle

JANUARY 9, 2025

" (Source: G2 ) Cons The platform can be expensive for small businesses. Customer Review "Great for larger organizations, but small businesses may find it hard to navigate all the features." Some users report a learning curve with customizing campaigns.

Software

BMT Office Administration

JANUARY 15, 2025

Are you having trouble making budgeting and workforce planning decisions due to the large number of seasonal and part-time workers you have? The resulting figure will be your overall FTE, the metric you should use for forecasting, planning, and decision-making. Enhanced budgeting Financial planning also benefits from FTE calculations.

Salary

Success

JULY 8, 2025

You may have come to the part as a small business owner where you realize that it doesn’t matter how great you are if nobody knows about you. Yet, sometimes major PR firms quote prices that are beyond what a small business can afford, with some reports showing even smaller boutique agencies costing $120,000 annually.

Small Business

Work Life

AUGUST 6, 2025

For business owners, that may mean shifting your positioning and value proposition so that it better aligns with what your target audience values most. Consider Rebecca’s brand client, Mark, a data analytics consultant serving small business owners. That shift in visibility and positioning led to two promotions over two years.

Promotion

Success

MAY 26, 2025

Well walk you through what market research for your small business means and how to wield it like a pro as soon as you start landing customers. How to Do Market Research for Startups The following six steps should guide you on how to go about market research if youre a small business or startup: 1.

Problem-Solving

Success

JUNE 20, 2025

Supporting local and small businesses to strengthen communities and reduce ecological impact. In 2024, about 64% of people spent money with socially responsible businesses, and 32% planned to spend more in the future, according to a report by Good.Must.Grow.

Purchasing

Ruby

AUGUST 8, 2025

Table of Contents What is a small business answering service? A small business answering service is a professional solution designed to handle customer calls on behalf of your business. With Ruby’s virtual receptionists, every call is answered by a professional so you can focus on growing your business.

Small Business

Thrive Workplace

JUNE 16, 2025

MARGIE: This is hard to choose as a small business owner. Last month, my mentor gave me a project of designing a board of advisors on ChatGPT to help me build a strategic plan. I am so glad I did! It has been the most rewarding and life-giving experience. THRIVE: What was your biggest success in the past year?

Coaching

Success

MAY 1, 2025

As AI becomes more readily available and accessible to the broader public, there’s a subset of that group that cant ignore AI either: small business owners. AI, in many free and inexpensive forms, is available for all kinds of business owners, whether you are a solo owner or have a handful of employees at your disposal.

Small Business

Success

AUGUST 1, 2025

The funding journey of a startup usually has the following stages or funding rounds, depending on your current stage of business: Pre-seed Pre-seed is the earliest funding round, and it usually happens when a startup has just commenced operations or is planning to do so. If you have trouble securing a loan, the U.S.

Banking

Success

AUGUST 15, 2025

But in reality, starting a business can feel cumbersome—there’s a lot of planning that goes into running your own show. To help, we’ve created the ultimate checklist for starting a business, where we review major steps such as initial planning and legal structure decisions all the way to running your business each day.

Banking

BMT Office Administration

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Building a Fort Knox for your data: Essential components of a Cybersecurity Policy Cybersecurity is always a hot topic for businesses. Small businesses need to be just as careful. A clear cybersecurity policy can help your business avoid these mishaps. This is an integral part of cybersecurity risk management.

Security

Work Life

JULY 17, 2025

Honestly, if you haven’t already been proactive in preparing for tough economic times as a small business, it will be challenging to get out of the hole you might be in in the current market. Begin investor conversations well before you plan to raise.

Problem-Solving

Work Life

AUGUST 12, 2025

Write a business plan A business plan is a document that outlines a company’s goals and strategies. It can serve as a roadmap for how your business continues to grow and develop. I’ve gotten this far without a business plan. Some business owners never write an official business plan.

Banking

Work Life

JULY 28, 2025

” I chatted with Jon Westenberg, who thinks that most people should focus on building a small business instead of chasing the startup dream. Why do you think Silicon Valley culture encourages startups over small businesses? Facebook, Twitter, Vine – platforms like that can’t grow as small businesses.

Small Business

Ruby

AUGUST 5, 2025

In the small business world, your time is everything. With zero coding required, Zapier empowers small businesses to: Eliminate repetitive tasks Tired of copying contact info from emails into your CRM every single day? Zapier detects a new event: depending on your plan, Zapier checks Ruby’s system every 1 to 15 minutes.

Small Business

Success

JULY 25, 2025

Launching your own small business online can cost less than $500. From AI gigs to quirky services like fake wedding guests, these 60+ small business ideas are for anyone seeking greater flexibility. Social Media Manager Wrangle Instagram, TikTok or Facebook for small businesses.

Small Business

Vantage Circle

MARCH 25, 2025

Remember when companies thought they could get away by offering a basic health plan and call it a day when it came to employee benefits. A solid benefits package has comprehensive health insurance, paid time off (PTO), retirement plans, and wellness support. But not anymore! The modern workforce wants more.

Insurance

Success

JUNE 30, 2025

On TikTok, creators and small businesses have discovered innovative ways to market, promote and cultivate a brand identity. They quickly became close friends, each pursuing their own paths: Angelov quietly developing plans for Dee Pizza, and Daniel building expertise in content creation and digital strategy.

Sales