Where to Spend and Save: Managing Money for Your Small Business

Revitalizing a business may take more than sprucing up little areas here and there. Sometimes it requires a complete adjustment of how you are investing in your business. The Small Business Administration (SBA) discovered over half of small business fail within their first five years because of poor planning/investing. Establishing a small business is a feat for the strong willed, …

Building Effective Relationships at Work

We spend the majority of our lives working. With school then real world jobs, a lot of our time involves interactions with numerous people and hours working as part of a team. Because of this time dedication, it’s important we know our coworkers/team members and are able to build appropriate and effective relationships with them. A 2017 survey from The …

Ted Talks for Business Leaders

When you own a business, you’re not just leading the way for your company, but you’re also seeking leaders to stand with along the way. Not everyone will successfully lead with you or have the best interest for your company, but choosing the right leaders play a key role in the success of your business. But choosing the right leaders …

Business Books: Six Books to Help with Your Business

Business is an ever evolving concept with different trends and adapting processes. Whether you’re new to it or you’ve been in business for years, there is always something new to learn. Often, learning new skills or processes to business is an overwhelming task and takes time. It’s easy to get burnt out or weighed down by all the information. If …

Rebranding 101

When you think of good branding, your mind most likely shoots to Nike, Apple, and/or Starbucks. These brands understand the power of a logo and they’ve become iconic for it. Realistically, small businesses like ours will not have the same worldly impact with our branding, but our image affects our current and prospective customers. If you’re currently facing the obstacle …

Resetting the Routine: Getting Back-to-School Ready

Gwinnett County schools start back August 6. Whether you’re excited or stressed for this time of year, you have to get yourself and your kids back to their school routines. One big question every parent faces is how to get the kids out of bed for their first day back. There are numerous tactics, from starting the wake-up routine a …

Turning Off When You Work from Home

When your office is physically away from your home, it’s easy to mentally separate the two, but when your office is your home, you may find the separation a little difficult. As more people are turning toward telecommuting, the boundaries between work and family are wearing thin. And with increasing technological developments, your already mobile office is expanding to other …

The Keys To A Healthy Work-Life Balance

Are you living to work or working to live? Sometimes balancing work and all the other aspects of life seems impossible. Life can get so busy that it’s easy to focus only on work and then be so exhausted that your weekends turn into a time to catch up on sleep and relax- which is totally okay and needed, but …

Coworking Isn’t Going Anywhere

Coworking is quickly becoming the new normal and is expected to continue growing at rapid rates. It is projected that in a 5-10 years traditional offices spaces will begin to die down and the majority of the workforce will work out of some sort of variation of a coworking space. Here are some statistics that prove that coworking is not …

Working From Cornerstone > Working From Home

Working from home can be great for many reasons- like getting to stay home in your pajamas and watching Netflix in between work tasks!? But let face it, working from home gets old really fast. Here’s why working from Cornerstone is better than working from home Fewer Distractions: From doing laundry, watching kids, and the temptation to watch tv- working …