How can my company cut costs, but still retain our top talent? We don’t want to cut too deep and not be prepared when the economy starts to come back around.

Entrepreneurs have to make some tough decisions this Holiday season, amid the worst recession we’ve probably ever seen. If we cut back too far, we’re going to lose valuable employees, and when the economy comes back around, it may take us an extended period of time to ramp back up.
However, if we don’t cut-back, the company could suffer, and …

In our current economic climate, companies need to be evaluating every single expense, and how they can reduce or eliminate them. Could you be contributing to one of your company’s biggest costs?

Sure, employees are any company’s greatest expense, and also their greatest asset. I’m not suggesting that you are wasting your time, thus costing your company money, but rather that your company is not getting the most out of you, by not maximizing your efficiency.
So how much money is your company wasting?
Salary X Unused Time = FAIL!

The most powerful asset in any company is the people. For a company like Google, you have the best minds in the world, and then contrast them with General Motors and you see my point. We just chronicled the best Google job perks, and there is a lot small businesses can learn from them.
How To Retain Top Talent

Buy Your Employees Lunch
It seems simple, and almost sounds wasteful, but when you put the number to the paper, buying your employees lunch can be one of the best financial decisions you make. …

So everybody knows Google is the best company on Earth, aside from their “do no evil,” motto, their stock price hovers around $300 (even in this horrible economic climate), and just to rub it in that you don’t work at Google, here are 10 more reasons to hate love the Googlers. Did you know they give away $1 million bonuses?
Everybody knows about the free lunches, and bouncy balls and full decor that adorn the Google offices, but here are some of the perks you may not be aware of. To …

John Doerr joined Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers in 1980, and since then, has directed venture capital funding to some of the most successful technology companies in the world including Compaq, Netscape, Symantec, Sun Microsystems, drugstore.com, Amazon.com, Intuit, and Google, as well as Friendster, Go.com and myCFO.

Personally I like to live my life surrounded by the best of everything. The best gadgets, the best project management suites, the best startups, and the best girlfriends. How do I constantly find the best in everything? I read a lot, a lot of the best blogs in the industry as well as plenty of magazines, TV, and people watching.
I like to live my life by benchmarking the rest of the world and finding a way to best them by just 1 iota. If we can build a startup that …

If you’re planning on your startup generating revenue, which you should be doing, you had better have one hell of a sales team. And like many startup entrepreneurs, you probably haven’t spent 10 years in the sales industry and as a result, your sales skills might be a bit lacking.
These sales & marketing resources will help you craft your pitch, and develop winning strategies to help you drive advertising as well as purchase-revenue. It’s important to understand sales as a piece of the larger marketing pie, and you shouldn’t …