Have You Made Your Christmas Wish List Yet? We’re at year-end and you may be thinking to yourself, “I have got to do something different with my business next year!” Do you fret over making payroll? Do you lose sleep worried that your first call in the morning might be an angry customer whose building […]
The Power of Automation Promotes Success “Automation is good, so long as you know exactly where to put the machine.“ Eliyahu Goldratt I knew exactly where I needed to put the machine – my mind. I like to be up early in the morning. Before all of the beeps, rings and bells, before people want […]
Yes, there’s a mobile app for everything. Just the other day I installed a new app which prompted my dog to fetch me a beer. He hasn’t learned to pop the top yet, but he’s working on it. Ok, that is fake news, yet there is probably an app designer working on it. Mobile apps […]
Are You Playing On Your Field of Dreams? As we approach the exciting days of the MLB playoffs and the World Series, I recall my childhood dream of being a Major League pitcher. After pitching a 2-1 victory over the best team in our Little League tournament, I thought I was well on my way. […]
“Bueller, Bueller, Bueller…?” We all remember that epic scene from the movie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. I doubt that schools take roll call like that anymore, but colleges and trade schools do need a method for tracking student externships. Tracking Student Externships the Easy Way It’s manageable to track time and attendance in class, but […]
Imagine. You’re eating dinner in a restaurant on Saturday night. Your wife leaves the table for a minute, you take out your phone and check the Chronotek app. You can’t help yourself. It’s like Minecraft for small business owners. You have hourly, off-site employees and it’s awesome to be able to keep a finger on […]
Imagine. You’re eating dinner in a restaurant on Saturday night. Your wife leaves the table for a minute, you take out your phone and check the Chronotek app. You can’t help yourself. It’s like Minecraft for small business owners. You have hourly, off-site employees and it’s awesome to be able to keep a finger on […]
Your phone rings in the early morning before you’ve turned on your Keurig. It’s an angry client firing you because his building wasn’t cleaned last night. Again! You pinch yourself. Maybe it’s a bad dream. Unfortunately not and definitely not a great way to start a day, especially before coffee. This is a true story […]
If your remote, hourly employees travel from job site to job site and you don’t pay travel time, we need to have a talk. You may be unaware that this travel time is required pay by the U.S. Department of Labor. According to its website, “Time spent traveling during normal work hours is considered compensable […]
If you’re driving down a major highway and see a massive crater in the road, surely you would stop, right? Or at least go around it. It is said, “A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.” As a small business owner with remote, hourly employees […]
