Best Ways to Stay Active From Home

Best Ways to Stay Active From Home

One of the unintended downsides of working from home is the impact it can have on your overall health. While you’d think staying out of the office and having more freedom would allow you to make time to take better care of yourself, it’s normally the opposite. Getting...
Create a Business Budget

Create a Business Budget

Managing finances is a big part of owning a business. It is imperative to know where your expenses are going and whether you are making enough revenue to cover those overhead costs. One of the biggest mistakes business owners have made throughout the centuries is that...
One Tool for Your Hiring Arsenal

One Tool for Your Hiring Arsenal

Hiring is never easy. Your business has specific needs and you want to find the perfect candidate to fit those needs. But finding that candidate means you often have to wade through dozens of other applicants first. A lot of businesses end up settling on the...
The Equipment Essentials for Starting a Business

The Equipment Essentials for Starting a Business

While every business is different, there are a number of essentials every business needs. We all know computers and printers are absolutely necessary, but here are three examples of other things your business will need. Business phone While some business owners have...
Fixing Your Credit

Fixing Your Credit

Credit scores impact some of the most important moments in our lives. Buying a house, applying for a job, and improving your small business all rely on having a good credit score. Conversely, if your credit is lackluster, all these moments become far more difficult to...
New Technologies for New Business

New Technologies for New Business

Every business owner wants to stay ahead of the game, especially when it comes to the latest technological innovations that help improve the way business is handled. Sometimes, implementing the right technology is what transforms a tedious business process into...
Solutions to Your Marketing Woes

Solutions to Your Marketing Woes

Just like virtually every other field in business, marketing is constantly changing. Marketing managers have to be constantly adapting to new problems in order to keep things running smoothly. With so many moving factors, this can seem like an insurmountable task....
The Inspiration Guru

The Inspiration Guru

There’s a reason why clients all over the country refer to Joel Weldon as the most prepared and useful speaker they’ve ever come across. It’s the same reason why we choose to feature him here at AFE: He’s simply the best. If you’re looking for presentations that cover...
Remote Work Solutions

Remote Work Solutions

Working from home can present some serious hazards. That newfound sense of freedom is a double edged sword, as it can be much harder to provide a consistent work environment with decentralized employees. That’s why it’s so important to identify potential risks and...
What Keeps You Going As An Entrepreneur?

What Keeps You Going As An Entrepreneur?

Entrepreneurship is a hard path to follow professionally. Sometimes you will experience the best day ever and feel like everything is going in the right way, but you might have the complete opposite feeling the day after. It is hard to see how things might not have...
In Search of the Four-Day Work Week

In Search of the Four-Day Work Week

We’ve been hearing about it for years now, but it’s time to finally take a serious look at how a four-day workweek could impact your life. Besides the obvious bonus of an extended weekend, there could be some unintended side effects. For one, the days you do work...
The Pros and Cons of Job Search Sites

The Pros and Cons of Job Search Sites

For those of you on the job hunt, it may be time to rethink your outreach methods. With today’s myriad of job recruitment services, there is a virtually endless stream of ways to find work. From message boards to resume searching sites to job search engines and...
Keeping Your Head in the Clouds

Keeping Your Head in the Clouds

Small business owners have to be constantly vigilant to stay up to date with our changing times. This means finding the right site to host your data and store your most important documents. The days of filing cabinets are long behind us, as cloud services like Trapp...
The Importance of a Business Plan

The Importance of a Business Plan

Every business idea needs a business plan that will launch it forward successfully. A business plan is what gives your company direction, therefore it is vital for the success of a new organization. If you do not have a business plan, then you will be working blind...
Reasons to Start a Business

Reasons to Start a Business

You’ve only got so much time ahead of you, so you’d be wise to spend it doing the things you love. Starting your own business can seem like a huge undertaking, but the pride you feel knowing that you’ve seen vision through to fruition is something that just can’t be...
Understanding Marketing

Understanding Marketing

Marketing: Everybody who made it through high school has heard the term a thousand times, but sometimes its true meaning gets lost. We use the word so often in business that it can serve as a catchall for just about every one of our processes. And while that’s true,...
Best Online Payment Resources for Growing Businesses

Best Online Payment Resources for Growing Businesses

Toss the notebooks and calculators aside: Your company’s payment methods have never been easier. By outsourcing your payment services to online programs, you will be joining the ranks of countless successful business owners who realized the senselessness of doing it...
How to Find the Perfect Hire

How to Find the Perfect Hire

Hiring new employees is vital if you want your company to succeed. We have mentioned in the past that employees are the fuel that keeps your company going, therefore it is important to find the right candidate who is capable of doing the job in the most efficient way....
Making a Plan for Your Social Media Marketing

Making a Plan for Your Social Media Marketing

You can’t deny the importance of social media marketing. There are very few industries in which you can see real growth that don’t have a social media presence, and that aren’t actively using that presence to market to their customers. This is especially true of a...