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Construction workers and contractors provide important service under risky conditions. Unsafe construction sites pose many risks for both minor and serious injuries. It is the duty of construction contractors to keep sites and workers as safe as possible. There are important safety measures every contractor should implement.
The goal for most small businesses is to get bigger. To generate more income, and hold a larger share of the market. However, the process of getting from small to big, or expansion as it’s also known can be a challenging one. Fortunately, you can find some of the most essential dos and don’ts to guide you in this process below. Keep reading to find out what they are.
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I’m probably late to the party but I just discovered small business subscriptions for ink with the HP ink program and it’s a total game changer for working from home or your small business office!
If you’re just here for the HP Instant Ink free months code, click here or use dbbg1g.
Remember the old days of printing? Never fully understanding which cartridges to buy, or where to recycle. Running low on ink when you really needed to print something and more horror experiences than I can remember.
I used to only have a professional black and white Brother printer that’s great for business admin, but as a creative business it’s a total game changer to now also own a HP color printer with unlimited (read: 300 copies a month) pages to print. And that’s a lot! But it’s only costing me less than $12 a month! Hello Instant Ink Program!
With an Instant Ink Subscription you get new ink cartridges in the mail without the hussle. It knows two main differences from other printers:
Your printer is via wifi connected with HP, and it notifies them when you’re almost out of ink and they send you new ink.
You get a subscription for ‘x’ amount of pages per month, and you get to print those pages without any extra costs. If you don’t reach your limit, you get to take the rest of the pages to next month.
Instant Ink is HP’s ink delivery service. Your HP Printer automatically orders ink, and cartridges. The HP Instant Ink delivery service can save you up to 50% on ink. They are delivered to your door before you run low and you get to recycle your old ones, just add them to the box your new ones got delivered with and mail them back to HP.
See how you can save time and up to 50% on ink that’s ordered by your printer and delivered to your door before you run out.
Yes! As a small business owner, blogger and all around creative I enjoy printing colourful pages so much. To print my own products and planners, to create vision boards and more. I got the 300 a month plan, and to be honest… that’s a lot. I was really happy with my free months of printing as well and to never go to the store to buy the (wrong) cartridges and all those things. I really enjoy the wireless part of the printer too. I hated those wires that came with my old printer and the fact that I always had to be close to the printer with my computer to be able to print. Now I just print from my mobile or laptop and it’s so easy!
But keep in mind when choosing a HP Instant Ink plan that printing is not good for the environment and that you still have to get the paper. And those packages come often in 500 pages, so that would mean about one pack every month. Also, as a (wannabe) minimalist I’m not a big fan of paper everywhere, so I only print what I need to and try to use the paper twice if it’s just a draft.
So I suggest you start with one of the lower plans to see how you like it. How often you really need to print. I know how tempting it is to print every recipe you come across now and every beautiful motivational quote of image you find on Pinterest, and allll the planners you use but is it really necessary or will you print it just because you can ‘for free’?
Head over to Amazon to purchase your HP Printer. I got one for just $80 and it’s working perfectly, even for photos. Click here for free months of Instant Ink or use the code dbbg1g for free months!
I wrote about 5 programs/sites you can use to schedule your Pinterest pins before and made a pretty good breakdown of the differences between each site. As you might know, I love Pinterest! It’s my biggest source of traffic and how I make the most money on autopilot, thanks to this strategy. But recently I decided to step up my game to go all in on using Tailwind to schedule my pins. Wanna know why? Read along… (more…)
If you’re just starting out in business one of the hardest things to achieve is that of building authority within your marketplace as a credible company and as someone that can provide value, particularly if you’re operating in a crowded marketplace where there are already several dominant companies on the horizon that are viewed as the “go-to expert” within this area.
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Becoming an entrepreneur is hard work. With all of the responsibilities and commitments that you need to keep in mind, it’s no wonder that most successful entrepreneurs just think differently compared to the rest of us. It’s difficult to fortify your mind and prepare yourself for such a relentless lifestyle, but there are plenty of small things that you can do to improve your chances of success.
So let’s take a look at a couple of ways that you can develop a more refined entrepreneurial mindset. (more…)
Laws govern business, and it is relatively easy to get on the wrong side of the law if you do not follow the rules. Legal issues in business is quite common. It is your responsibility as a business owner to make sure that you limit the risk that your business faces. Failure to do so may increase the possibility of a lawsuit, and in some cases, you may need bail bonds to get out of jail. Here are four tips to resolve and avoid legal issues in business.
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No matter where you work or what kind of job you do, there are so many potential workplace injuries that can happen to any of us. It is of course always in your best interest to ensure that you are avoiding such injuries, as well as helping the people around you to avoid them too, and that means that you are going to require a certain level of awareness of how this can be done while you are at work. In this article, we are going to take a look at what you can do in order to ensure that you are avoiding all of those common workplace injuries, and how you can make sure you encourage the same behaviour in other people at the same time. (more…)
No industry or line of business is without its difficulties. This is even more so the case when you consider the negative state the economy has been in over the past few years. This blog post deals specifically with the challenges that process servers face in the modern-day. A lot of people deem this to be an industry that is in the midst of change. With the potential for e-servicing looming and the prediction of the rise of no serve, no fee structures; process serving companies all over the country (and the world) are coming up with plans to try and combat these issues. Keep on reading to discover more in-depth information regarding process server challenges that are occurring at present.
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Working from home sort of crept up on us. One minute, we were going to work as normal, having a wonderful time. The next, businesses cleared out the offices and said that we’d have to work from our home offices. And if we didn’t have them, then either our beds or the kitchen table.
But working from home is also bringing with it surprising habits and teaching us all new things about ourselves. It’s anything but normal at the moment. (more…)
Running a business means having to keep lots of plates spinning at the same time. Keeping an eye on everything is a challenge, but there are some metrics and factors that do need to be monitored closely, and taking your eye off them can have serious consequences for the future of the business. Here are some of the things that it’s most important to monitor when running a small business. (more…)
Starting a business from home may not be as easy as it sounds, but some errors can make the process even more challenging. In general, about 20% of businesses fail within the first year, including home-based ones. Managing a business from home comes with so many advantages for any new entrepreneur. No matter what kind of business you are running, working from home offers a more flexible work environment, a better work-life balance, as well as little to no commuting issues. However, running a business from home also comes with a unique set of challenges. So, are you planning to start a new career or business from home? Here are some mistakes to avoid making. (more…)