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Run Your Small Business Like Super Bowl Champions
The NFL kicked off last night and for many of us it's the most exciting time of year. Football teaches us many lessons both personally and professionally. For instance, did you know that out of the 51 Super Bowls that have been played, 46 of the winning teams had a...
3 Tips for Managing Remote Employees
Have you ever tried to round up a dozen cats into the tub for a bath? I haven't personally (although there is probably a YouTube video), but I can imagine that the task is similar to managing remote employees. Did everyone show up? Are they where they are supposed to...
Please Pray for the Victims of Hurricane Harvey
Our hearts and prayers go out to the state of Texas and it's residents. The historic flooding rains of Hurricane Harvey are expected to leave more than 30,000 people in and around Houston in shelters. We have many friends (customers) in Texas so this tragedy burdens...
3 Ways to Regain the Crystal Clear Vision You Had for Your Business
I drove into town one morning and it was beautiful. The sky was Carolina blue as the sun peaked over the tree line and dew glistened on the grass. Then I noticed the filth on my front windshield. How much more spectacular the view would have been through a crystal...
3 Ways To Protect Company Time
Today Americans between Oregon and South Carolina within the path of totality will experience a total eclipse of the sun. The moon will completely block the sun, and for a couple of minutes the areas in this path will be in darkness. While total eclipses in the United...
Are Your Numbers As Good As You Think?
I beat my son on Wii Golf the other day 40-47 on 9 holes. At first glance, one might think that my son is awful, while I am the next Rory McIlroy. The numbers are convincing. On average I beat him by a stroke on almost every hole. I could market this version of the...
How to Improve Employee Performance
A recent personal experience gave me an idea that small business owners could use to get better employee performance. I taught my 11-year-old son how to mow our front lawn. He takes great pride in doing a good job. He mows one direction and then comes back over it in...
It’s Time to Use an Employee Time Tracking App
I saw a sign the other day that said, "If you're waiting for a sign, this is it." If you're a service-based business with remote employees, I have a sign for you. Or rather, I have a stat that's your sign to solve your handwritten time card headache. Research firm...
Timekeeping For The Other 33%
Small business owners may discover a problem when searching for a clock in and clock out timekeeping system for all of their remote employees. Just about every employee timekeeping system you can find on an internet search is app-based only. What do you do with the...
Solutions for Remote Time Tracking
Finding real solutions to your business problems can be like raising teenagers. You walk into the kitchen and on top of the counter sits a stack of used paper towels, paper plates and food wrappers. Right there just about 12 inches above the waste basket. So close to...
Benefits of Online Time Tracking
What you know is surely important, but maybe more critical is how soon you know it. Knowing that bad weather is coming is much better than knowing that it came and went. We talked to a janitorial customer recently who shared the importance of the speed of...
How to Replace Handwritten Timesheets
This will happen to you one day. A revelation. You will wake up and through sleepy eyes check your emails, and just like every day for the past decade, you will delete the same emails without reading them. You know the ones - the grocery store, the department store,...
Time Tracking for a Growing Business
April 18 is right around the corner. Have you filed your tax returns? Many Americans love to file early and wait on the big check, like a kid waits on Christmas. For others, they realize that Uncle Sam isn't Santa Claus. That big check is payback on a short term...
Test Drive Automated Travel Time and Mileage Reporting
Do you have hourly employees who drive between job sites? You may be paying too much for travel time but don't know what to do about it. In a previous post, Speed Up Payday with Hassle-free, Automated Travel Time and Mileage, we introduced our travel time...
Speed Up Payday with Hassle-free, Automated Drive Time & Mileage
Panic sets in! Payroll is due tomorrow, and your desk is littered with piles of employee handwritten timesheets. The law requires companies to pay employees for their drive time, but tracking it is a logistical nightmare. Your tedious, head-pounding workaround takes...
One Second Can Change Your Life
Really fast high school track stars can run the 55 meter event in about 7 seconds. That's 165 feet, or just over half a football field, in less time than it takes to reheat a Krispy Kreme doughnut in the microwave. However, the world record time is 5.9 seconds set...
Free Timekeeping Software
Have you ever bought furniture that comes in a cardboard box and "some assembly" is required? The manufacturer will send a tiny hex wrench that can get the job done, but it's painful and time-consuming. Your local hardware store sells a furniture assembly kit that...
Where are Your Employees, Really?
Would you buy a new 55" smart TV without a remote? Maybe a remote isn't necessary, but it makes the TV more enjoyable. If you're a small business owner with off-site hourly workers, you need confidence that employees are clocking in and out at the job site. A GPS...