7 Signs You’re Ready to Hire New Employees to Support Your PR Business
Over the last two years, millions of American workers have voluntarily left their jobs in an ongoing economic trend coined the Great Resignation. Spurred by the vast disruption caused by the pandemic, today, more than 11 million American jobs remain open, and job seekers are taking advantage. You might say the grass has never been greener as employees continue to hand in their notices for more lucrative opportunities that embrace flexible work cultures.
Overservicing: A Death by a Thousand Cuts
Picture it. A brilliant young PR account manager keels over from cardiac arrest at the ripe old age of 32. Arriving at the pearly gates, she’s incensed. She asks St. Peter why she's been taken so young, someone with so much ahead of her, so much to live for. St. Peter digs through a pile of documents, squints at the young woman over the top of his spectacles, and says, “Because according to your timesheets, you have to be at least 110.”
3 Steps for Simplifying Small Business Management
As small businesses grow quickly, their leaders often don’t have time to consider or research the best software systems for their long-term needs. So they end up tacking on whatever new software or processes will work at the moment.
Six Ways for Professional Services Leaders to Increase Employee Utilization
For a professional services firm, there are few metrics more important to consider than utilization rate. While Operations teams at firms are familiar with utilization, we’re going to dive into some details about utilization that you may not think about often enough.
Invite-Only Grants: How to Get Your Foot in the Door
As your organization lays out its funding strategy for the coming years, you’ll almost certainly consider your grant seeking goals. Nonprofits rely on grants from all kinds of private and public sources to develop and sustain new programs and build capacity while still being able to cover their overhead expenses.
Adjusting for Inflation: How to Increase Your Service Prices in 2023
Akagi Nyuguyo, a Japanese frozen dessert company, needed to raise prices for the first time in 25 years. To communicate the news, they created a televised commercial in which somber-looking executives stand in tight formation. Without speaking a word, the leadership team bows in contrition for raising the price of their kids’ popsicles. Folksy music plays in the background lamenting financial hardship and the clip ends with the text "we held on for 25 years but..." Several million YouTube views later, the company received a tremendous outpouring of support from their loyal customers. That’s good marketing.
Nonprofit Boards: 3 Tips for Better Remote Communication
Communication is already difficult enough when it’s face-to-face. Throw in a global pandemic and its remote communication implications, and staying connected becomes even more difficult. This is especially true for board members who need to address their organizations’ urgent needs while tending to their work and home lives.
How Can Nonprofits Maintain Low Overhead While Building Capacity?
As a nonprofit organization, you want the same thing your funders want, and that is for your cause to receive as much of your funds as possible.
Top 7 Ways to Get Employees to Complete Timesheets
After spending over 20 years as the CEO of a timesheet software company, I’ve spoken with many managers and business owners who struggle with timesheet completion.
Why Your Timesheet and Payroll Software Should Speak the Same Language
If you’ve ever spoken with someone who doesn’t speak the same language as you, you know communication can be difficult. You can rely on gestures, body language, and a simplified vocabulary to get your point across. But at the end of the day, connecting can be difficult.
Why Your Nonprofit Should Be Tracking Volunteer Time
Do you know the value of your nonprofit’s volunteer time?
Volunteer Management From Home: 4 Tips for Virtual Programs
Now more than ever before, people are leveraging digital solutions and doing more remotely than has even been possible.
Time Tracking Software for Small Business: What's Right for You?
The idea of “timesheet software” seems relatively straightforward. It’s a tool that helps you keep track of employee time within a timesheet...right?
Why Nonprofits Should Track Time
No one ever said running a nonprofit is easy. There are endless rules and regulations, a near-constant battle for funding, and significant pressure to simultaneously reduce overhead costs and recruit top talent.
