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Local Business Tips and Tricks: The Homebase Blog
Ideas for helping you manage your business and your employees. Plus product updates from Homebase, employee scheduling tools, and much more.
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Writing a Job Post that Works: The Homebase Hiring Guide
Whenever you’re hiring, you’re in a rush to find someone for an open role. We bet that you’ve given an…
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Acing the Interview as the Hiring Manager: The Homebase Hiring Guide
No part of the hiring process is more tedious than interviewing. Reviewing resumes is not typically time-consuming. However, phone screens…
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Evaluating Candidates in a Competitive Hiring Market: The Homebase Hiring Guide
Remember that you are competing against a huge number of job openings for hourly employees. In the city of Houston,…
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Effective Employee Onboarding: The Homebase Hiring Guide
You’ve found the perfect candidate. So they should start right away, right? Try to slow down before allowing the candidate…
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How to Hire the Best Hourly Employees: The Definitive Guide
Download the Free Hiring Guide You’re in a war for talent. Hourly employees of restaurants, bars, stores, and other local…
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Texas Judge Strikes Down the FLSA Overtime Rule
Last week, a federal judge in Texas struck down the overtime rule initiated under the Obama administration. The rule would…
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How Loyal Are Employees In Your City?
According to analysis conducted by Homebase, the #1 market for job-hoppers is Denver, and the city with employees who stayed…
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Homebase’s Commitment to the Houston Community
Homebase recently opened an office in Houston, and many of our employees and their families live in Houston. We also…
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An Online Schedule Maker Can Save You Hours
Scheduling employees takes a lot of time. Whether on a piece of paper or in an Excel spreadsheet scheduling template,…
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Mobile Time Tracking: Saving You on Labor Costs
Mobile time tracking means allowing your employees to clock in to their shifts from their phones. And it’s about more…
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How to Convert Social Media Followers into Customers
Your business has an account on Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and beyond… but are you able to convert those social…
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Yelp Guide for Restaurant Owners, Part 4: Updating Your Yelp Business Page
The Complete Guide to Yelp Part 1: Creating and Optimizing Your Yelp Profile Part 2: Yelp Ads, Deals, and Dashboard Part…
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Yelp Guide for Restaurant Owners, Part 3: Responding to Yelp Reviews
The Complete Guide to Yelp Part 1: Creating and Optimizing Your Yelp Profile Part 2: Yelp Ads, Deals, and Dashboard Part…
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Yelp Guide for Restaurant Owners, Part 2: Yelp Ads, Deals and Dashboard
The Complete Guide to Yelp Part 1: Creating and Optimizing Your Yelp Profile Part 2: Yelp Ads, Deals, and Dashboard Part…
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Yelp Guide for Restaurant Owners, Part 1: Creating and Optimizing Your Yelp Profile
The Complete Guide to Yelp Part 1: Creating and Optimizing Your Yelp Profile Part 2: Yelp Ads, Deals, and Dashboard Part…
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7 Local Business Time-Saving Tips
Small businesses make the world go ‘round. You offer unique products and you help build a sense of community on…
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Beat Amazon at Customer Service: 10 Strategies for Local Retailers
Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods has many retailers fearing that Amazon has become a terrifying fog that will slowly suffocate…
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Staffing July 4th: What Every Savvy Manager Needs to Know
There’s a lot to love about July 4th. It’s a natural opportunity to bring in more money with big promotions,…
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Your Business Isn’t Special: Recruiting Hourly Employees When They Can Work Anywhere Else
It is critical for small business hiring managers to remember they are competing against massive amounts of job openings for…
