Dinsmore Steele Business Blog
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What do the best business owners do?
What do the Best Business Owners do?
Most businesses handle their accounting needs by spending too much of one or both of the following - time and/or money. Fortunately, there is another way. You can outsource your accounting and CFO, effectively eliminating the need to hire in-house employees or, if you are the courageous type, even attempting to do it on your own.
What is your total cost for an employee?
The true total cost of an employee goes well beyond the salary offer. From pre-hiring activities to benefits like tuition reimbursement, a single employee’s overall cost to a business can add up to 30%, or even 100%, more than that worker’s actual pay.
United States Health Care is a Catastrophe
The phrasing may be indelicate, but health care in the United States is screwed.
Premiums are on the rise, more Americans are working under high deductible plans, and the health insurance market is narrowing. It’s a bad time to be sick.
PEO For Sole Proprietors: Does It Pencil?
On the surface, it would be easy to decide that your one-man or one-woman band wouldn’t benefit from partnering with a PEO. But, that most often is not the case. In fact, there are some very compelling reasons why you should investigate a PEO for yourself.
My Year in Books
My favorite books in 2015.
Here’s what you need to do before you hire your first employee
All companies start with a great idea, and usually it’s born from a challenge that you or someone close to you face. It’s a desire to improve, fix or create a better way of doing something and from that comes a company. No one ever creates a business to be in business, all of the things that go along with creating a company is overwhelming, and there is no definitive direction provided by anyone or anything.