What’s the Saturday after Thanksgiving? Yes, it’s Small Business Saturday, a day when crowds tend to descend on your small business. In order to keep them coming throughout the holiday shopping season, it’s important to provide a number of important things, like good customer service...
Halloween is many people’s favorite holiday. The kids go trick-or-treating. Some decorate the outside of their homes with animatronic skeletons and creepy characters. Some people hand out candy (while secretly stashing some for themselves). It’s just a fun, all-around night. As you may know, this holiday...
Paving and grading contractors have a reliable amount of business. There are always streets and sidewalks that need to be repaved, potholes to fill, and plenty of spots that need to be regraded so that rainwater flows properly down them without puddling. With so many...
Life insurance is one thing that practically every adult has considered buying, and once they have a family to support, as well as things like a house and cars to pay off, they follow through with the purchase. These policies are designed to help the...
When it comes to buying a life insurance policy, you have a lot of choices to make. Do you want a term or a whole policy? Who should be your beneficiaries? And mostly importantly, how big of a policy do you need? What is the...
Losing a parent or spouse is always a traumatic event, especially when it comes to stay-at-home parents. Even if you know that it’s inevitable due to a lengthy illness, it’s still a shock when you lose your partner, and your children lose the parent that...
Starting up a business is always a fraught, yet exciting time. You have to put all of the pieces in place for founding your dream company, from choosing a location to ordering signage to hiring employees. All of these tasks can make it easy to...
There are few things worse than realizing that your small business will be closed for the next few months due to storm damage. How will you pay your employees? What will you tell your customers or clients? Not only will you lose business while your...
Do you have a summer house that you rent out to others? Whether you enjoy a few weekends in your beachfront property or invite family and friends to hang out at your home by the lake, you need to have the right insurance in place,...
Did you know that your boat should be insured just like your car? No matter where you have it docked, damage can occur - even in your own yard, should a tree or other structure land on the boat during heavy winds. Things are even...