The LivePlan Blog

Businesses of all sizes are finding ways to make the most of the quickly burgeoning international marketplace. If you’re thinking about expanding your business internationally, it is crucial that you pay attention to the basics.

If you’re operating your own business successfully, looking to acquire an additional venture can be an extremely profitable decision. It also requires taking a huge risk, and being all-in. Here are four things to keep in mind to ensure your success.

Business is a combination of vision, drive, execution, and above all, timing. Here’s how two homebrewers found success turning their hobby into a successful beer garden and tap house.

Direct costs (also known as costs of goods sold—COGS) are the costs that can be completely attributed to the production of a specific product or service. Here’s why this is important for growing and running your business.

Ongoing collaboration is essential to your business’s success. In this ultimate guide to business partner collaboration, we’ll go over how to improve your collaboration and communication skills so you can grow your business together.

When starting a new business, surely your focus needs to be on getting the business and the product up and running. You only have a few employees at most, so there’s nothing to worry about on the “people” front. Right? Wrong. Here’s why you should focus on employee engagement from the start.

Business owners who succeed in meeting their goals have one common thread: They all track their progress toward their goals. Here are the metrics and data you should track to realistically measure performance, and what you can safely ignore.

Employees want workplaces that care about their wellbeing, and business owners want healthy employees—and less sick days. Is a corporate wellness program the answer?

We’ve launched several new features that make the LivePlan Dashboard even better. If your business uses Quickbooks Online or Xero, LivePlan can now automatically create a business dashboard in seconds, create printed and PDF reports for board meetings and presentations with your own branding, and automatically create your budget and forecast.

Using data to make marketing decisions is essential to growing revenue and having a stable business. That doesn’t mean data is easy, but it does mean that any business can use data to develop and implement better marketing campaigns.