Well, December is wrapping up and the Christmas shopping season is for all intents and purposes over. Several months have passed since Cafepress decided to rework its volume bonus structure and then abruptly dumped the news on shopkeepers that marketplace sales would no longer count when calculating it. The furor was terrific as Cafepress was caught with their pants down. (more…)
December 2008
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December Bonuses A Bitter Reminder For Cafepress Store Owners
Posted by: jjackson72
Business22 Dec 2008 06:17 am
Unwise Things Business Owners Do In Hard Times
Posted by: jjackson72
With the economy having slowed, I thought it would be a good time to discuss some of the unwise (some may call them “stupid”) things that business owners do. Whether it is because of panic or just idle hands, these are things that you really should try to avoid.
1) Don’t Lay Off Employees Just Because
It is tempting when business starts to slow up to start cutting employees to save money. Here is the downside to that approach however. If you start trimming employees now, ask yourself what you are going to do when things start to come out of the current downturn? When requests and orders start to come back in how will you scale back up to handle the demand? Odds are that those people you laid off are not just going to sit around and wait for you to call. If you spent time and energy training people letting them go can mean them slipping to you competition who will benefit from your hard work. (more…)