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Happiness at work is pretty important to most of us. After all, we generally spend more time at work than we do at home with our families. Employees’ happiness should be important to business owners too. A study by the University of Warwick shows that happy employees are 20 percent more productive at work. How do employers create a joyful workplace? It starts with understanding what makes employees tick. How can we attract the right kind of employees? Create an employee-centric culture that not only attracts good employees, but it also helps to keep them.

Liquor stores face fierce competition from convenience stores and online distributors, making the strategic marketing of your brand and products all the more important.  This can mean putting more money behind your marketing efforts, adding to your product offerings and making a concerted effort to interact with your customers.  Here we present four tactics you can use to improve sales at your liquor store.

Taking responsibility for your salon’s impact on the environment is not only good for the planet, it can be great for business.  Many consumers seek out cruelty-free and environmentally friendly products and purchase them exclusively.  Making this kind of change can give you a leg up on the competition and a point of emphasis for your marketing campaigns.  Such a shift requires several steps.

Food trucks have become very popular and can be an extremely viable business whether on its own or as an extension of your physical restaurant location.  There are some key differences in starting a food truck business versus a brick and mortar restaurant, and as with any other business, detailed planning is needed in order to be successful.  As a relatively new business model it can be difficult to know where to start.  Here we break down five key steps in establishing your food truck business.

It’s that time of year again.  Time to organize all of your profits, expenses and receipts and square up with the U.S Government.  Several changes were incorporated last year that continue to affect what you’ll owe and what you can write off.  Here we’ve outlined some key due dates and deductions to help make the process as painless as possible.