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What Are the Best Tools for Tracking Financial Goals?

Whether you’re saving for a dream vacation, paying off debt, or building a nest, there are countless tools to help you stay on track with your financial goals. Continue reading
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Statewide Competition: Sound Credit Union and UW Tacoma’s Milgard Center for Business Analytics are Looking for the Next Big FinTech Idea

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Business Financial Health Check

Use our Financial Health check to find out the key business drivers to better succeed in your business. Continue reading

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Calculator: Gross Profit Break-Even

Breaking even at the Gross Profit level is a major step towards financial sustainability. Continue reading

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Growing Your Business: Ways to Identify New Markets and Customers

The better you know your target customer, the better you’ll be able to find more customers that fit the profile. Continue reading

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Protecting Your Business: Protecting Your Business From Theft and Fraud

Protection from theft and fraud is down to being proactive, prepared, and having good systems in place to both discourage and detect theft and fraud Continue reading

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Protecting Your Business: Identity theft and reputational fraud

Identity theft happens when someone uses information about you without your permission. Continue reading

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Growing Your Business: Building and improving capacity

Don’t be afraid to expand your operations if there’s enough demand to justify it. Continue reading

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Growing Your Business: Sure-Fire Marketing Plan in Eight Easy Steps 

Spend time finding out about your customers’ preferences and habits, to help you focus your promotions more effectively. Continue reading

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Growing Your Business: Six numbers to track growth

Use sales data to identify what your best customers are buying, think of other products or services that could be sold with them, and tailor special offers to bring these customers in more often. Continue reading

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Growing Your Business: Creating a smart promotion plan

Keep your objectives short and measurable to help evaluate whether your promotional plan is working or not and be prepared to drop anything that doesn’t work for those tactics that do. Continue reading