While investigating methods for improving the financial side of running a business, Rural Lifestyle Dealer has come across a comprehensive checklist of ways to shore up your cash flow management. Rob Martin of Spark Business IQ has compiled such a checklist which we believe will be helpful to anyone looking to maintain a successful and lucrative business.

Content marketing is an effective way to serve your customers, build relationships — and establish yourself as an expert. Here is some timely information from Stihl that you may want to share on your website, in a newsletter or in your stores.

Will Coates, president and CEO of Billy Goat, says he had not been pursuing selling the company, even though he has received numerous requests over the years. That changed when Briggs & Stratton approached them last October.

Employer groups and insurers are pushing to keep businesses with 51 - 100 workers exempt from a provision of the federal health law that they say could significantly increase their costs.

Precision agriculture technologies, which have dramatically changed production agriculture over the last decade or so, are now being introduced in the turf market, specifically in sprayers for golf course and turf maintenance. This market is benefitting from production ag technology and moving straight to individual nozzle control for chemical placement and comprehensive data gathering and analysis capabilities.

The next time you drive into your dealership’s lot, pretend you’ve never been there before and just look at the way the inventory is organized. What does your lot say about your business?

Kubota Tractor Corp. recently announced the move of its corporate headquarters from Torrance, Calif. - a base it has held since Kubota's early days in the U.S. - to Grapevine, Texas.