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As a small business owner, you can take steps to reduce risks in the workplace, helping to lower the cost of your insurance premiums. Here are some useful tips that can benefit your business, your employees and your customers:
- Install smoke alarms and fire safety.
- Plan and train employees for an emergency on the premises, such as fires or evacuations.
- Have employees keep wallets and other valuables in a safe place. Keep cash and other securities business, in a safe.
- If your employees operate machinery, provide them with safety goggles, gloves and other safety equipment recommended to help prevent accidents.
- Keep office space in good physical condition. Install carpet on stairs and handrails. Verify the wiring of your phone and computer is in good condition and does not create any danger.
- If your employees operate a company car, make sure you have a good driving record and that are properly trained. Read the rest of this entry »
If this is the first time you acquire workers’ compensation insurance, the fee will depend on its payroll and industry type. After a few years, your premiums may be based on actual experience of your company.
Other types include liability insurance:
- Liability umbrella policy: provides extra protection above the standard policy. The boundaries of an umbrella policy typically range between $ 1 and $ 5 million and are appropriate for business owners who have large assets or are particularly vulnerable to lawsuits.
- Security against crime: protects businesses from theft and malicious damage, such as embezzlement by employees (embezzlement).
- E-insurance or electronic business insurance: covers businesses with web-based, against damage caused by vandalism or viruses. Read the rest of this entry »
The standard liability insurance company does not protect against:
Claims for sexual harassment, unfair dismissal of workers, discrimination in employment or promotion, or legal action for racial or sexual. These and other employee-related claims are covered under liability insurance in employment practices. The cost of liability coverage for employment practices depend on the number of employees in the plant, whether or not there is a history of the company has been sued in the past and other business risk factors. The policy also pays for legal expenses related to the defense of the company regarding a claim related to the practice of employment.
Claims related to the operation of an automobile or truck. If you own vehicles for the use of your company, or to make deliveries or for transportation to meetings with clients, you need a separate car commercial cover to protect themselves and their employees against liability claims resulting from automobile accidents. Read the rest of this entry »
If someone has a fall while visiting your business premises or a customer is injured or suffers an injury from a product sold by your company, you may be liable. That is the risk that the civil liability insurance cover.
Liability insurance, also known as Commercial General Liability (CGL), covers four categories of events for which you may be responsible: bodily injury, damage to property, personal injury, including slander and libel -, and false or misleading advertising. CGL coverage covers medical expenses of the injured. However, it excludes employees who are covered by Workers’ Compensation Insurance. Keep in mind that even those who enter their property without permission, they can sue if they fall or accident on the premises of your business! Read the rest of this entry »
No one questions the advantages of having an effective brand, recognizable without much effort, and better yet, invite a buying action. But when it comes to defining the identity of a company, ie how they will be identified by different audiences, it is difficult to agree on what is important and how to translate it.
To understand this concept should be distinguished from the corporate image. On the one hand, identity is what an organization is, while the second refers to how it is perceived. The identity includes the name and all elements that consistently communicate what a brand or company wants to project herself into the interior and exterior.
Not a simple issue. Founded 11 years ago by Juan Carlos Gonzalez and Josep Palau, and recently opened an office in Montreal, Canada, Ideogram Consultants specializes in working with companies to establish an identity they consistent with what we are offering. Read the rest of this entry »
Many people advise starting a business, talk about the advantages of having a business compared to a job, of the great benefits to be gained, and so on. But what many do not mention are the downsides to assemble and manage a own business, contingencies or difficulties that might happen, or it has disadvantages compared to a job.
Create your own business seems to be the best option to generate revenue rather than seek employment, however, should not think that installing and managing a business is simple, we must always take into account the negative aspects, especially if we plan to leave our job to start our company.
To begin with, says that having your own business, one will be your own boss, but this is not entirely true, one may no longer be headed by a person in a higher hierarchical level that is giving orders or supervising their work, but now heads will your suppliers, your bank, tax office and, above all, its customers, which incidentally will be a very demanding and ruthless bosses. Read the rest of this entry »
During a conference at Stanford, Steve Jobs recommended to the attendees: “If today were the last day of your life, continue doing what they do at work? If the answer is ‘no’ for several days … it’s time to find something else.”
If you love programming and have ideas for building applications, the impediments to turn your talent into a business are virtually nonexistent. Erick Camacho, programmer and co-founder of CocoaHeads CoManage TidySlice and Mexico, explains that the first step to becoming an independent developer is to take a look at the market.
Thus, states that 63% of the applications on the App Store are paid, while in Android (a Linux-based operating system designed for mobile devices), more than half of the applications are free to download, which indicates there is a greater opportunity to focus on programming IOS (for Apple devices). Read the rest of this entry »
The hearings have taken over the media, the phrase ‘the customer is always right’ makes more sense if you open doors as social networks, more than just a showcase to advertise products or services, have become a means of communication with your audience.
Although they have become part of everyday personal habits, manage the site on Facebook or Twitter from your company can become a great success or a catastrophic failure if you do not clear the scope.
Hector Meza, president and founder of InfoSol Group, says the number one mistake entrepreneurs in social networks is to open a profile without clear what the target.
Why? becomes the most important question to resolve. When you open your profile you must be aware of the various social sites allow you to interact with your customers either to know, educate, organize in groups, report on events or new findings related to your business and provide service. If you think social networks are only to spread what you do, you’re making your first mistake. Read the rest of this entry »
As much good that can be thought to have reacted to the global crisis, complete with its exponential growth in Internet access, the truth still many brands in Latin America wary about investing in social media or not.
In normal times of crisis is to cut costs, but it is not profitable for any brand, here or anywhere in the globe, is to cut in areas vital to companies as advertising or soliciting clients, both of which have been energized thanks to extensive use of social networks.
The statement that “in times of crisis should increase advertising” (and the contact via social networks), but obvious is not necessarily shared by clients. When a company starts having financial problems the first thing cut is the marketing budget, which is a big mistake, because the best way to increase sales is showing the consumer, and the more the better. Read the rest of this entry »