Do you have a love-hate relationship with the information technology (IT) portion of your business? You love it when your website generates leads, for instance, but hate the time it takes to manage your website, along with social media, your customer relationship management system and on and on.

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.

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?

At N2 Publishing, we have a large number of employees from Generation Y-- the millennial generation loosely made up of a post-college workforce in the 20 to mid-30 age bracket.

The rural lifestyler who’s never been on the seat of a tractor stops you in the middle of your sales spiel to say that your competitor’s tractor will pick up 75 more pounds than your brand will. The first instinct is to say, “How is that relevant?” You bite your tongue, smile and say, “You’ve done some serious research, I’m impressed! Their tractor does pick up a little more than ours, but ours is heavier and has a longer warranty. If you need more lift capacity, we could be looking at the next model size in our line.”

The rural lifestyler who’s never been on the seat of a tractor stops you in the middle of your sales spiel to say that your competitor’s tractor will pick up 75 more pounds than your brand will. The first instinct is to say, “How is that relevant?” You bite your tongue, smile and say, “You’ve done some serious research, I’m impressed! Their tractor does pick up a little more than ours, but ours is heavier and has a longer warranty. If you need more lift capacity, we could be looking at the next model size in our line.”