When you’re self-employed, there are days that retirement sounds like a dream come true. Others, it feels like a pipe dream. It’s normal to feel overwhelmed at the thought of dropping your income and living solely off a savings account. Whether you’re the sole provider for your family or you bring in the secondary income, you can prepare to retire the way you want by starting now.

Contribute To A Roth IRA

If you’re self-employed and run a small business, it’s highly likely that you don’t have a 401(k) that you’re able to contribute to each month. You’re also not getting the company match because, well, you are the company. There is a strong alternative to a 401(k) in a Roth IRA. [Read more…]

There are few areas of your business that require collaborative working as much as your marketing department, not only with each other but with all other areas of the company. For example, if the marketing department doesn’t promote the products or services you provide, income is going to be pretty minimal, and your business isn’t going to last very long. At the same time, they need to work alongside Accounting and Finance to ensure a good return on investment for any paid promotions. If you are a large team or perhaps have some of your employees working remotely or at home, it can be a little harder to work as effectively, but here are some things you can do to help streamline this. 

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Social media provides countless opportunities for businesses to engage with potential clients that may otherwise have never appeared on a cold calling list or email database. It also enables high levels of targeting, and other benefits for aiming your content at exactly the right users.

Social media video production is a crucial part of standing out from the crescendo of noise and content – and there are a variety of ways your company can do this. This article will give you a few ideas to get you started.

Be heard – with subtitles

Adding subtitles to videos is a great first step. This means users can see your core messaging even if they are viewing it in an environment where they have the sound off, or just have the volume muted. After all, nobody wants to be that person on a train or aeroplane making everyone else listen to their noise. Equally, subtitles allow people who are hearing impaired to view and take in all the content. [Read more…]