Tax Strategies For Engine Shops
Shop owners who are focused on serving their customers and operating efficiently are taking a little extra time to also get their financial house in order. They realize the value of the ABCs of a well-managed business: A for attorney, B for banker and C for CPA. These trusted advisers could help you focus on your customers and your business, while also ensuring you operate legally, effectively and profitably.
Identifying and Removing the “Time Stealers” from Your Shop
Your engine shop may be great at rebuilding powerplants for customers, but one thing your staff can’t do is build “more time.” Whether it’s silver, gold, platinum, diamonds, rubies or even cold, hard cash, we take numerous measures each day to protect our valuable items, some more drastic than others. We use locks, banks, safes
Family Affair: The Challenges Of ‘Family’ In A Family-Owned Business
The phrase “Family Owned and Operated” creates a warm flow of positive emotions when you talk about your company to your customers, especially your female customers. But having family as a part of your business creates a whole new dynamic of which most people are unaware. Navigating the family in a family-run business can
Identifying and Removing the “Time Stealers” from Your Shop
Your engine shop may be great at rebuilding powerplants for customers, but one thing your staff can’t do is build “more time.” Whether it’s silver, gold, platinum, diamonds, rubies or even cold, hard cash, we take numerous measures each day to protect our valuable items, some more drastic than others. We use locks, banks, safes
Five Tips to Improving as a Leader in 2013
If you are like a shop owner friend of mine, you probably don’t think of yourself as a leader; most good leaders don’t. They just do what they do … lead, and they do it so well, that others take notice. According to author and speaker John Maxwell, the essence of leadership can be summed up
Time Management And Achieving Balance
Looking back at my upbringing, I recall we didn’t have as much “stuff” as my friends in school, but one thing my mom always had for us was her time and love. While Mom worked, she had many hobbies from bowling to rose gardening. As we began the process of cleaning out her house, her
Leading By Example: Focus On Core Strengths To Build A Stronger Team
He had a lot of time to reflect on life and who he was during his long stay at the South Pole Advance Base weather station in 1934, where temps averaged -60 degrees in the winter. He was alone and the closest human was 123 miles away. Segueing from that example, in this article I’d