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Building a Business

Free Webinar | May 19: How to Optimize Operations When Scaling Nationally

Learn everything you need to know about keeping operational costs low to maximize your budget while implementing a fulfillment strategy that exceeds your customers expectations and keeps them coming back for more.

By FounderMade

Business Ideas

How Better Sales Management Can Help Small Businesses Rebound

By Faiza Hughell

Thought Leaders

Simplify Your Business Operations with This AI-Enhanced Appointment Scheduling App

By Entrepreneur Store

Building a Business

4 Tips for Simplifying Due Diligence (and Why It’s Even Needed)

By Tom Popomaronis

Buying a Franchise

Free Webinar: Money-Saving Efficiency Strategies for Your Business

Franchise Bible author Rick Grossmann focuses on a variety of operational strategies to improve the efficiencies within your business.

By Entrepreneur Insider

Business Plan

How to Cut Costs Without Cutting Staff

Six entrepreneurs share smart tips for trimming operation costs.

By Entrepreneur Staff

Business Accounting

4 Ways to Stop Losing Money on This One Sneaky (Sometimes Painful) Expense

If you guessed 'printing costs,' you're right. Don't be cavalier toward them. There's a giant savings opportunity here flying under your radar.

By Kevin Pickhardt

Building a Business

Why This Entrepreneur Ditched Helping Companies and Decided to Compete With Them Instead

This CEO explains why she pivoted her company from a consulting studio to supplying the products.

By Andrea Huspeni

Thought Leaders

Why Superchef David Chang Is Risking His Perfect Restaurant Record for a Delivery Startup

'Things are changing so fast in food that if you're still using what worked for you in the past, you're screwed.'

By Elizabeth G. Dunn

Building a Business

4 Tips for Harnessing the Tension That Comes When a Visionary Hires an Integrator

Once a business reaches $5 million in revenue and/or a staff of 30 or 40, it's too complex for a visionary to handle.

By Matt Wool

Building a Business

How to Reduce Operational Costs

If you're serious about outsourcing to reduce costs, do your due diligence and find qualified individuals or firms to work with.

By Thomas Smale

Thought Leaders

The Secret to Operationalizing Engagement

Engage your team and help them see how their work connects to the company's overall vision for the future.

By Brian T. Anderson

Thought Leaders

How to Trump-Proof Your Small Business

If Donald Trump is elected president, the economic landscape could rapidly shift for small business owners.

By Scott Yates

Building a Business

Video: The Secret Business of Training Navy SEALs

Inside the operations of a unique business that trains America's elite warriors.

By Dan Bova

Building a Business

Poor Employee Engagement Is the Biggest Retail Fail of 2015

Here's how to bounce back from it in 2016.

By Sam Bahreini

Tech

Bionic Eye Shows Promise for People With Age-Related Vision Loss

The Argus II system was successfully implanted in a senior suffering from age-related macular degeneration, which affects 20 to 25 million people globally.

By Carly Okyle

Building a Business

7 Tips for Reducing Your Shipping Costs

The simple task of sending and receiving goods can be one of the most expensive and often overlooked aspects of a business.

By Peter Gasca

Building a Business

For This Cat Cafe, Crowdfunding With Kickstarter ‘Was Never About the Money’

The co-founders of Meow Parlour raised three times as much cash as they set out to raise with a Kickstarter campaign. But that wasn't the best part of their crowdfunding success.

By Catherine Clifford

Building a Business

A Shift at Google’s Helm Might Not Be Enough to Deliver Exponential Growth

Results can be improved with a heightened management focus on the continuous flow of strategic change. Drive responsibility for day-to-day operational revamping as far down in the organization as possible.

By Tom Somodi

Building a Business

The 6 Secrets That Will Help Your Hair Salon and Day Spa Succeed

Even if you're still in the planning stages for your new enterprise, it's never too soon to start thinking about these six operational issues that will impact and contribute to the success of your business.

By Entrepreneur Press and Eileen Figure Sandlin

Business Accounting

6 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Financial Statements

The information could be useful, if it's prepared correctly and you know what to look for.

By Gene Marks

Buying a Franchise

How One Sandwich Company Cracked the Franchise Top 10

A focus on franchisee selection, training and operations helped Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches reach number five on the Franchise 500 list this year.

By Jason Daley

Building a Business

To Boost Efficiency, Rethink Company Culture

In this case study, telecom startup Grasshopper explains how rethinking its values helped realign the company's goals, reduce turnover and find the cash to reinvest in itself.

By Amy S. Choi

Buying a Franchise

A Jointly Owned Franchise Gives Two Pilots a Second Chance

After John Grassia and David Smith lost their jobs as pilots, they bought an Express Oil Change franchise to supplement their incomes.

By Jason Daley

Building a Business

4 Things to Do Before You Sell Your Business

Sales of small businesses rose in 2012 and are expected to increase in the new year. Here's what you should do to prepare to sell.

By Brian Patrick Eha

Building a Business

Why Your Business Needs an Operations Plan

If you're sailing your boat without a rudder, you're going to lose control when the water gets rough. A growing business needs a sound operations plan to survive.

By Polly Schneider Traylor

Building a Business

Need a Vacation? 4 Steps to a Business That Thrives Without You

If your operation falls to pieces when you're not there, you're doing something wrong. Use these tips to create a sustainable system.

By Brad Sugars

Building a Business

Lighting Up Your Store — and Your Sales

How to light your retail space to the best effect without breaking the bank.

By Jane Porter

Building a Business

How One Small Firm Replaced Its AWOL Site Designer — Fast

A stationery boutique owner had to do some serious bargain-hunting when she needed a web designer to add a 'shop online' element to her company's website.

By Jennifer Wang

Building a Business

Google Declares War On Slow Web Pages

In its ongoing quest to make Web apps as fast as desktop software, Google Page Speed Service accelerates Web page load times.

By Thomas Claburn