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4 Common Tech Mistakes Small Business Owners Make and How to Avoid Them

With limited time and resources to devote to technology, it’s easy for busy entrepreneurs to make technology errors that can have devastating effects on their business finances, reputation, and productivity. Fortunately, following a few key small business IT tips can help you avoid this fate.

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Ready to Build Your Supply Chain? Start With a Barcode

Many small business owners start out driven by their passion for their product, which may have immediate potential to turn a high profit or to solve an important problem in the marketplace. With such excitement around the product itself, it’s often easy to neglect other business functions, such as supply chain management. However, setting up your supply chain for success from the beginning can help founders create a long-lasting stable business, control costs and expand their reach. 

A Supply Chain Framework

The good news is that there are time-tested and reliable processes in place that power
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Disaster Preparedness for Retail Stores

According to FEMA, 40 to 60% of small businesses that close due to a natural disaster never re-open. Download this guide to learn how to create and implement a disaster plan.

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Ready to Grow? 5 Things to Keep Top of Mind

Sometimes, a new market opportunity creates rapid business growth. Other times, growth comes more gradually. Just ask Matt Zorn, president of Zorn Compressor & Equipment, a family-owned company based in the Midwest.

“We’ve been growing steadily for more than 60 years, but it hasn’t always happened at the same pace,” says Zorn. “While our fundamentals have remained the same, we’ve had to adapt and innovate as our customer needs change.”

Is your business primed for growth? Before you explore new opportunities, Zorn offers five important things to consider.

  1. Understand the numbers. It's not enough to

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