Longview Chamber of Commerce | Tools for Business Success

Manage your Business

Improve productivity
Manage inventory
Use technology to improve your business
Use technology to improve selling
Use technology to improve cash flow
Use technology to communicate with customers
Evaluate where you stand
Improve quality
Leadership training
Fixing your business
- How to pay business debts that you can't afford
Employee downsizing

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Videos

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The most important thing you can do to reduce stress

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Online courses(fee)

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Fundamentals of Supervision and Management

Business Tune-Up
- Track your business' progress with this series of tune-ups. Your information is private; no one has access to it.
  
  Email address
SWOT
Customer Retention

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New Hire Compliance Email
Payroll Tax Calculator
Learn about Requirements: Get Forms
Government forms due in the next 90 days

Videos

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Employee management: Setting Goals

Online courses (fee)

Achieving Success with Difficult People

Business Tune-UP: HR
- Track your business' progress with this series of tune-ups. Your information is private; no one has access to it.
  
  Email address
Create a Healthy Workplace
- Tools to help you create a healthy workplace.
  
  Email address

Hire Employees

Find the right person
More compliance help
Payroll
Human resource tools
Safety tools

Business & Employee Training

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Business Entity Wizard
- The answers to a few questions usually determines the best business entity for you.
  
  Entity Wizard
  
  The answers to a few questions usually determines the best business entity for you.

Videos

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Security Awareness & Training

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Online courses (fee)

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Fundamentals of Supervision and Management

Business Entity Wizard
- The answers to a few questions usually determines the best business entity for you.
  
  Entity Wizard
  
  The answers to a few questions usually determines the best business entity for you.

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Business Entity Wizard
- The answers to a few questions usually determines the best business entity for you.
  
  Entity Wizard
  
  The answers to a few questions usually determines the best business entity for you.

Videos

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Online courses (fee)

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- What's Your Footprint
  Calculate your Business' Carbon and Water Footprint
  
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Greening your Business

Financing/Managing Money

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Calculators
- Financial Projections Calculator (from SCORE)
- Breakeven calculator
  
  Use this to estimate how many sales you need each month to generate your required profit (before operating expenses)
- Gross Profit Calculator
  
  Use this to determine your profitability BEFORE your operating expenses
- Target Inventory Stock Level
  
  Use this to calculate your working capital requirements
- Personal Financial Statement Template
  
  Use this to calculate your loan payments
- Lease versus buy calculator
  Use this to create a plan to pay off credit cards.

Videos

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Simplifying Small Business Funding

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Online courses (fee)

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Accounting Fundamentals II

Business Tune-Up
Track your business' progress with this series of tune-ups. Your information is private; no one has access to it.

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Scam Alert Center

Report a SCAM
Scams reported in our area: BBB Scam Tracker
Small Business Scam research results from the BBB

Advance fee for business loan

SCAM
Promise business loans for people with no credit, but require low application fee.
PREVENTION
Look for online reviews on performance of these lenders.

SOURCE

Amazon fake merchants

Business coaching and promotion

Business website domain scam

Cashier's check fraud

Change your online reviews

SCAM
Promise to change your online reviews or give you all positive online reviews.
PREVENTION
Posting fake reviews or altering reviews is illegal.

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Changing the contract

Check tampering

SCAM
Checks can be tampered in many ways. Click the source link for examples.
PREVENTION
Separate responsibility for issuing and reconciling checks.

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Check washing

SCAM
Erases payee and amount on a check and substitutes their own information
PREVENTION
Click the source for a video and prevention

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Computer alert popup

Credit card equipment hijack

Credit repair scams

SCAM
The services they can perform are few, and generally free.
PREVENTION
Click on the source link for information.

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Customer provides override to declined credit card

Debt collection scams

SCAM
Demands immediate payment. Makes threats of arrest.
PREVENTION
Contact your lender using information from their official website.

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Don't trust caller-id

Equipment leasing deposits

Equipment leasing evergreen clause

Fake email and fake website

SCAM
Fake email which leads you to a fake website to steal your identity or download viruses
PREVENTION
View infographic by clicking on Source

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Fake invoices

SCAM
Send you fake invoices that look legitimate.
PREVENTION
Verify any invoice that has a new address

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False refunds or voids

SCAM
Employees void a sale or issues a refund and pocks the money him/herself.
PREVENTION
Require manager approval for ALL refunds and voids.

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Google scam

Government employee demanding money or payment

Government grants for businesses

IRS - iTunes scam

SCAM
Person claiming (s)he is from the IRS demands payment using iTunes
PREVENTION
No reputable company ever demands payment via gift cards or iTunes

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Overpayment

SCAM
Ask you to wire overpaid funds with a valid sounding reason. Later, the entire check bounces or invalid.
PREVENTION
Return any overpaid payment.

SOURCE
Padding an expense account

SCAM
Employees duplicate receipts, change amounts or dates of expenses
PREVENTION
Detailed auditing of employee expense reports

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Password update request

Peer lending scam

Placement in a directory

Potential investor (angel investor) for your business

Quoting an interest rate on a lease agreement

Request for employee W-2

SCAM
Someone pretending to be a corporate manager uses a fake email to ask for an employee W-2.
PREVENTION
Check email against actual company email list.

SOURCE

Request to wire extra funds

Returning stolen items in exchange for a gift card

SCAM
Returning stolen items in exchange for a gift card
PREVENTION
Require receipts and identification

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