Welcome to the Advisors On Target Member Portal
We’ve Just gone live with our brand new Member Portal for Advisors On Target clients. We hope you enjoy all the resources we have here to help you run a better business. Keep coming back! We are adding new content all the time, so there will be more goodies to come.
Twitter – Great Marketing or Waste of Time?
Twitter continues to grow at a rapid pace and attracts thousands of new users each day. But you often hear people say that Twitter is a waste of time with no benefit to the small to medium sized business. Others rave about Twitter’s positive impact on their company. The fact is that many small to […]
Top 10 Cash Flow Tips
Know your business’ balance sheet thoroughly. This may sound obvious, but, as your accountant can confirm, many business people don’t know how cash flow works and its significance to keeping their operation afloat. Many owners focus on their business’ profit and loss statement alone. It’s a potentially fatal mistake because healthy profits can mask an […]
Good People Management Increases Your Profit
Most small businesses operate a tight ship. They manage overhead expenses and watch cost of sales to stay on the credit side of the ledger. But when you’ve reached a point where you cannot see any further ways to reduce costs, there could still be an opportunity to increase your profits through increasing productivity. Probably […]
3 Little Secrets – The Keys To Low Budget Marketing
Even in a downturn, if you don’t get in front of people and explain your unique value proposition then your chances of selling will be restricted to current customers or accidental passersby. Marketing is what sets you up for selling. However, there are three important things you should appreciate before you start. 1. Your target […]
QuickBooks 2010 – New Features
In QuickBooks you are able to sort the Pay Bills window four ways: Due Date, Discount Date, Vendor, and Amount Due. Now you can also Filter that screen for one vendor or multiple vendors. You no longer have to see every vendor you owe money to, in that window. Want to go paperless? You can, […]
Nine Easy Ways To Grow Your Marketing List
Target every new contact for follow up communications and watch customer loyalty – and your profits – grow. A good quality customer and prospect database for email or direct mail can mean the difference between business survival and failure, especially during times of slow growth. The same list, combined with smart communications, will make the […]
Be A Team Player in Your Business
Poor relationships within the team will always reflect on morale and have been proven to impact on the bottom line. You can make or break a career or a job depending on the way you behave with fellow workers. Workplaces need to be profitable for businesses and for the people in them – and that […]
Get On Top Of Business Forecasting
Want to stay in business and be profitable in this economic climate? The answer is to plan, but it is difficult to think in terms of three to five year plans these days. So focus instead on the next 12 to 18 months and use “what if” scenario planning and stress testing along the way. […]
What’s the difference between Invoices and Sales Receipts in QuickBooks?
They both record the same information: SALES. Invoices record sales on an accrual basis, sales receipts record sales on a cash basis. An invoice records the sale as income and increases accounts receivable, as of the date of the invoice, even though you haven’t received the PAYMENT for the sale. To complete the sale process […]