Small Business Resources

The U.S. government can offer a high-performing revenue stream for your business. With an understanding of government acquisition priorities and policies, you can compete and win more government contracts.

Government Contracting

For more industry tips, check out our Government Contracting Guide.

• Small Business Tools: Win More Government Opportunities - How prepared are you to identify and win more government opportunities? Take advantage of this resource hub and empower your small business with the tools to succeed.
• Government Contracting Webinars for Small Business - This series of complimentary webinars will help you to identify and win more government opportunities.
• 5 Tips From Government Contractors Who Moved Off QuickBooks and Unanet - As your small government contracting business grows and develops into a more complex organization, so should your accounting solution.
• Federal Contracting—Small Business Keys to Success - What are the four keys to small business contracting success?
• Tips and Tricks for Selling to the Government as a Small Business - Small businesses have the opportunity to capitalize on policies specifically put in place to enable their success and ensure their ability to compete.
• Keys to Growing a Small Business in the Federal Market - For small businesses that are serious about finding success and growth in the federal market, it’s time to take the 4Cs seriously and form a strategy for building and executing on them all as a foundation to your business.
• Smart Workforce Growth for Small Government Contractors - Leveling up your workforce in service of a government contract can be daunting. Preparation and planning can take away many of the growing pains so a firm can scale the smart way.
• Defining Your Business and Selecting Systems That Help Rather Than Hinder - Learn the differences between what a generic enterprise resource planning (ERP) or a dedicated project-based ERP solution can offer your government contracting firm.

Architecture & Engineering

• 5 Signs It’s Time to Up-Level Your Project Information Management - Explore how adding project information management provides next-level document and email management – empowering your team, improving accuracy, and reducing risk.
• Take Your AEC Firm's Business Intelligence to the Next Level - Five best practice tips for AEC firms to drive better decision making broaden your usage of BI across all parts of your company.
• Small Business Accounting – Learn the basic concepts of small business accounting to improve financial performance with better controls, close faster and provide accurate financial reports.
• Small Business ERP – Learn more about ERP for small business and how it can help you to successfully manage and grow your company.

Construction

• Best Practices for Better Cash Flow in Construction - The construction industry has inherent challenges that make cash flow management and collecting and paying bills difficult. Learn industry best practices to set up your business for long-term financial success.
• Five Key Principles for Construction Business Success - Here are five key principles to help contractors realize steady, predictable business growth.
• Job Costing 101 for Construction Accounting - Job costing helps you project job expenses to identify problems before they affect profit.
• Job Costing Software Explained - What is job costing software and how does it work? Contractors use cloud-based job costing software to boost project profitability.
• Why Contractors Upgrade from QuickBooks® - Understand why small businesses outgrow QuickBooks due to increasing complexity of their operations, expanding financial needs, and the need for more industry-specific features and functionalities.
• Small Business ERP - Learn more about ERP for small business and how it can help you to successfully manage and grow your company.

Management & IT Consulting

• The Key Advantages of High Growth Professional Services Firms – Read this blog for four key advantages that stood out for successful high growth consulting firms (those that grew more than 20%) vs low to no-growth firms.
• 6 Industry Trends That Can Help Increase Your Consulting Firm’s Growth Potential- Technology combined with the right expertise can help unlock new markets and increase your consulting firm’s growth potential.
• Beyond Spreadsheets: Achieving Collaboration, Automation, Data Accuracy and Efficiency - Finance leaders in Consulting discuss how they utilize spreadsheets and when it’s time to move on to more robust systems.
• How to Drastically Reduce Small and Mid-size Consultancy Risk and Meet Goals Faster- How a purpose-built PSA solution helps small and mid-sized consulting firms win more business, lower costs and gain critical visibility into engagement gaps and KPIs.
• Small Business ERP - Learn more about ERP for small business and how it can help you to successfully manage and grow your company.

Marketing Agencies

• How to Get Your Agency in Check for Growth or Acquisition – This blog highlights aspects of agency operations that forward-thinking leadership should recognize and prioritize.
• Accelerate Your Small Business: The Agency Operations Roadmap – Transform your creative operations with this roadmap for long-term resilience and growth.
• Six Steps to Optimizing Project Delivery - Invest in exceptional project delivery and the payback in talent retention, client satisfaction and profitability is sure to speak for itself.
• Small Business ERP - Learn more about ERP for small business and how it can help you to successfully manage and grow your company.