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Business Operations And Management

Operations is how the work gets done when you are not in the room. Advice here does not replace an accountant or an employment lawyer.

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Business Operations And Management

An Operations Checklist For A Small Firm

Questions an owner can answer this week about capacity, follow-up, and numbers. Not an employment or tax manual.

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Business Operations And Management

Questions Before You Hire The First Employee

Planned article. Not published. Not employment legal advice.

Planned. Not published. No search-volume figure is attached.

Business Operations And Management

Job Costing For A Service Company

Planned article. Not published.

Planned. Not published. No search-volume figure is attached.

Business Operations And Management

Getting The Owner Off The Tools

Planned article. Not published.

Planned. Not published. No search-volume figure is attached.

Business Operations And Management

A Simple Weekly Numbers Review

Planned article. Not published. No benchmark ratios.

Planned. Not published. No search-volume figure is attached.

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Questions Before You Hire The First Employee

List questions before the first hire. Topic: First employee.

  • H2: Employee and contractor are legal categories
  • H2: What the role must take off the owner
  • H2: Who to ask before you post the job
Job Costing For A Service Company

Compare estimate to actual cost. Topic: Job costing.

  • H2: Estimate versus invoices
  • H2: Overhead is not optional
  • H2: Your accountant owns the method
Getting The Owner Off The Tools

See what must be delegated before the owner leaves the tools. Topic: Owner working in the business.

  • H2: The jobs only you can do today
  • H2: The job you will hand off first
  • H2: What breaks if you hand it off badly
A Simple Weekly Numbers Review

Pick a short weekly review. Topic: Weekly operating numbers.

  • H2: Four lines, same weekday
  • H2: What you will not track yet
  • H2: When the bookkeeper’s report replaces the page