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The 3 Best Ways To Reduce Your Food Truck Expenses

Having a food truck business is not such a crazy idea as it was in the past. There are a lot of people that are making a lot of money doing it and are loving what they do in the process. It’s a great opportunity to do things that would be too difficult in a restaurant. For instance, you can have your entire menu based on recipes made with US soy fed beef such as tacos or barbecue. Or, you can focus on a certain ethnic cuisine.

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One thing that every food truck owner should do, however, is find ways to save money.…

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5 Potential Business Expenses

If you’re going to start a business this year, you probably have come up with a plan already. Having a comprehensive plan in place is one of the most critical things you can do if you’re going to find success within your niche.

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However, while you might have thought about expenses such as employee salaries and what it will cost to rent a brick-and-mortar location, you might have forgotten about certain other potential expenditures.

We’ve compiled a possible expense list for you to peruse. It’s probable that you won’t need everything on this list, but it’s more than likely you’ll need at least a couple of the items we’ll mention.…

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Top 6 Areas to Invest Capital that Will Grow Your Business

If you have recently come upon additional capital or funding for your new business – congratulations!

The next step is to make sure that you’re spending the money wisely to take your business to the next level.

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You may feel like a kid in a candy store with so many opportunities and every vendor saying that their products or services are the best things since sliced bread. How can you make sure you’re spending the money strategically to maximize growth?

Here are some key areas in which you should focus your efforts and invest your capital:

1. Hire the Essential Roles

Having the right people in your team will allow you access to the essential skills and expertise required to take your business to the next level.…

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5 Costs You’ll Incur While Working at Home (And How to Minimize Each)

You love working at home. But is it a drag on your finances?

It’s no secret that running a home office involves overhead costs that traditional office-dwellers don’t have to deal with personally. Managing them doesn’t have to be a full-time job, though.

Expenses incurred when working at home

Many home office workers pursue part- or full-time work-at-home opportunities that provide scalable income potential. Fundraising distribution is a great example: Full- and part-time fundraising distributors sell high-profit fundraising products that help charitable organizations, school clubs, faith groups, and others raise funds for their work. According to the experts at ABC Fundraising, fundraising distributors working full-time from home can earn $5,000 per month or more.…

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5 New Expenses For Small Businesses That Go Global

If you’re ready to expand your business into global markets, you need to keep certain considerations in mind to smoothly transition from local to international business. We’ve compiled the following list of five expenses you may incur while preparing your business for expansion.

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Product Readiness

Packaging standards differ from country to country. Getting to know how each system works allows you to prepare for unexpected expenses around packaging and shipping.

Labeling is also a factor. International markets may require packaging to contain specific information, meet safety standards, or comply with regulations.

Researching markets carefully means avoiding expenses you weren’t prepared for.…

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6 Ways to Slash Businesses Expenses This Year

As a business grows, it’s easy to let expenses scale up proportionally. And before you know it, your costs of doing business have a significantly negative impact on the bottom line. If this is true in your situation, you may need to revisit the drawing board and slash some of these unnecessary expenses.

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Simple Steps to Save Money

Running a business is no different than running your household budget. To improve your bottom line, you either have to increase your income or slash your expenses. Boosting revenue is always an option, but it takes considerable effort and investment. Expenses represent the lower hanging fruit.…

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Understanding the Top Challenges of Expense Management

At the macro level, there’s a lot affecting businesses when it comes to expense management. For example, international expansions and globalization are two elements that are influencing expense management, and also making these costs rise in many instances.

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According to the Global Business Travel Association, there will be an estimated four percent increase in costs this year, and businesses need to be prepared to address this general challenge, as well as many others.

One of the best ways to address most challenges of expense management is to choose the right expense report software. Along with keeping costs in check, the following are some of the other challenges businesses need to realize they’re likely facing, as they select expense management software.…

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3 Key Ways Your Small Business Can Save

Keeping down costs as much as possible without sacrificing quality is critical to any small business if it’s going to stay competitive, maintain a high customer satisfaction rate, and ultimately grow into a medium or even large-sized business somewhere down the road.

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Many small businesses these days can be run by only one or a few people, at least in their “infant stage,” and sometimes can even be run entirely from a home office with no physical business property.

But no matter how minimalistic your business may be, there are three areas you probably can’t do without: a quality business phone system, a good website hosting service, and fast, affordable shipping.…

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5 Business Expenses a Startup can do Without

It can be so easy to get carried away during the initial phases of setting up your own business, but it’s vital that you keep your head. Many new company owners waste thousands that they haven’t earnt yet on illogical expenses, so here are just a handful that you should avoid.

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1. Extravagant “image” purchases

The last thing you should be spending your money on is a fancy suit or designer watch; you can certainly get a smart-looking, good quality suit to match whatever your budget is. As long as you look professional, your client won’t know or care where your clothes are from.…

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Limit Expenses as an SME – 5 Actionable Points

As an SME it’s easy to rack up more expenses than what you are generating in revenue. Spending on suppliers, vendors, employee perks and taxes can get out of hand in the blink of an eye unless carefully planned. But there are several ways to limit expenditures that, by focusing on improving efficiency, can even make a company more profitable.

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Palletise large shipments

If you are shipping goods as part of your basic, regular practice, how you do so is a crucial factor in your business’s operations. It goes without saying that a reliable pallet courier that offers competitive prices and excellent service should be used.…

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