As a business owner, you know how important it is to bring in customer payments on time, so you can pay your bills. Yet securing prompt payment from customers and maintaining customer loyalty can be a significant challenge. One Click Advisor invites you to explore these tips about how to avoid and handle late payments while remaining customer-friendly. Clear Read More

How to cut marketing costs and efforts. By James Chittenden Let’s put more money in your pocket by increasing sales and keeping your marketing expenses either constant or decreasing. We do that by selling to customers you already have. Upselling current customers is the best way to cut marketing costs and efforts. Did you know… Read More

Revisit Your Break-Even Each Month and Reset Your Sales Goals Each Time. By James Chittenden Expenses change all the time, and therefore the revenue you must earn to pay them changes too. “Break-even analysis”, also known as ”break-even” is a misunderstood term, and means different things to different people. The path to increasing your profits Read More

Part 3. Turn assets into cash with greater speed and frequency. Here is how. By James Chittenden If you are buying something for $1 and selling it for $2, your prosperity depends on how fast and how often you can turn over inventory. This is the working capital cycle; a measure of how long your Read More

Part 2. Calculating Margins is Simple. Avoid This Rookie Mistake! By James Chittenden If pricing products scares you, you’re not alone. Incorrect pricing is very common. Novice business owners sometimes price too high, earning the contempt of their market. However, it is far more common to price too low in an attempt to gain market Read More

Part 1. To See Where You Should Be, Compare Yourself to Your Industry By James Chittenden Let’s put some more money in your pocket. The goal here is to help you find efficiencies within your business and increase your margins WITHOUT having to resort to layoffs, gimmicks, or imposing sticker shock pricing. Compare yourself to Read More

By James Chittenden If your business has credit challenges, you are far from alone. According to the Federal Reserve, half of all business owners don’t qualify for traditional business loans due to bad credit scores. Online lenders offer small business loans to borrowers with credit scores of 600 and lower.  What is ROK Financial? ROK Read More

By James Chittenden No business owners can do everything right, and certain business chores are too essential to accomplish without expert help. If your startup is becoming a more formal business and you are hiring, congratulations. You are doing something right. But you still need experts to help with everyday functions that are part of Read More

Guest Post by Derek Goodman, Inbizability Small businesses are buckling under the weight of COVID-19. Not only have nearly 100,000 businesses permanently closed since the onset of the pandemic, but 62 percent of small businesses fear the worst is yet to come. Under these conditions, it’s clearly a bad time to start a business. Or Read More

By James Chittenden Everyone wants free money or loans, and owners of startups and small businesses have pursued imagined prizes of grants and easy loans for decades. In reality, free money to start a small business is very rare. However, the political environment is favorable for economic relief for small businesses and self-employed people.  The Read More