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How Do You Survive When Your Business Isn’t Profitable at the Start?

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I would advise any entrepreneur—but especially those starting a business for the first time —to create a personal budget. With that in mind, put these smart budget practices in place before you face any lean times: 1. The good news is that you can make a salary even if your business isn’t profitable. I recommend 1.5

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7 Tips to Help You Plan for Retirement

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Use your current expenses and lifestyle to help you get a feel for what you might spend when you retire. Develop a rough budget of expenses to help determine the income you’ll need. Aim to save around 15% of your gross salary across all your retirement accounts. And refine it as you get closer to retiring.

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Understanding how to project financials for a startup business

Workplace Insight

It lays out the company’s expected expenses and revenues, giving potential investors a detailed overview of your economic forecasts. They feed into each other and inform critical decisions such as budgeting, pricing, and funding needs. When projecting your expenses, consider both your fixed and variable costs.

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How to Manage Yourself When Making the Move to Self-Employment

Productivityist

You ideally need to make sure you have enough running costs of the business to run for 6 months as well as making sure you have enough to pay for living expenses. Make sure you get rid of unnecessary expenses and cut back on others, such as eating out or your weekly shopping budget Eliminate any money wasters such as unused subscriptions.

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4 Ways To Financially Support Your Employees (Other Than Raises)

Allwork

Here are some actionable tips that employers can take to help their employees prepare for economic downturns and unexpected expenses. Without simply increasing wages, what course of action can employers take to prepare their employees for economic downturns and unexpected expenses? Unfortunately, this just isn’t the case.

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The Art of Problem-Solving: 4 Creative Strategies to Tackle Your Biggest Obstacles

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You launched this side hustle in 2017 but recently left your salaried job to take this business seriously. . Adding pre-recorded content to our service lineup means passive, recurring revenue, with fewer expenses. The Issue Tree (or Logic Tree) is the perfect tool for mapping out the challenge at hand. I like Mindmeister.

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Tori Dunlap, Founder of Her First 100K is on a Mission to Close the Gender Pay Gap

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I’m no stranger to setting lofty money goals : At 9 years old I became cognizant of the idea of college—a seemingly far-off milestone that my parents described as “important” and “expensive”—and decided I needed to proactively save money for my college education. One of my favorite tools is the “Money Date.”