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10 Ways to Expand Revenue Streams at Festivals

For small and large festivals alike, incorporating some of these additional revenue streams offers up a whole lot of opportunity for greater profit yields and, as a result, you can see your festival grow to a major annual event.

How to Prepare Your Bar or Restaurant for Major Sports Events

Major sports events can mean big business for bars and restaurants in Canada. Here’s what you should take into account before hosting the next big game.

How to Choose the Right Online Store Platform for Your Business

What’s one of the first decisions you make once you’re ready to make the move online? Choosing a web platform.

10 Scientifically Proven Ways to Motivate Employees

Discover ten scientifically proven ways to motivate employees, including creating the right environment to offering employee rewards. Learn more tips here.

How to Create a Business Plan in 2021

A business plan outlines research you’ve done prior to starting a business and provides strategic direction. Here’s how to create an actionable business plan.

What Is Mobile Commerce (and Why It’s a Strategy You Should Care About)?

What better place is there to meet your customers than on their mobile devices?

How to Promote BNPL (Buy Now, Pay Later)

BNPL (Buy Now, Pay Later) makes it easy for merchants to offer credit to customers who don’t have credit cards. Offering BNPL can boost your business’ growth.

Opening a Barbershop: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide

If you’re opening your first barbershop or thinking about opening a second or third location, this guide walks you through the steps to open a barbershop.

How to Handle Increased Customer Demand as You Reopen

Customer demand is fluctuating as businesses reopen. Use these operational tips to help you keep up with increased customer demand.

The Essential Restaurant Equipment Checklist

Thinking of opening a new restaurant? Check out this essential restaurant equipment buying guide for a full-service restaurant.

What is Self-Employment Tax?

Here’s a beginner’s guide to self-employment tax and other key information you should know about taxes when you’re self-employed.

What is Inflation and How Does It Affect Small Businesses?

Inflation is the greatest agitator of economic fearfulness — but what is it exactly? And how can you and other small businesses make it through a rough patch?

How to Understand Your Overhead Costs

Understanding your overhead costs is an important part of managing your business. Here are a few basics you should know.

Alberta Labour Laws: 8 Laws You Probably Didn’t Know About

Alberta’s labour laws are unique, so if you run a business there, you must ensure you’re up to speed with the latest legalities. Square’s guide is here to help.

B.C. Labour Laws: Everything Your Small Business Needs to Know

You must learn and adopt certain rules that apply to business ownership in B.C.— especially if you hire employees. B.C. labour laws set the bar for the province’s standards of employment.

A Guide to the B.C. Employment Standards Act

Do you run a small business in British Columbia? Follow Square’s employment standards guide to better understand your responsibilities as an employer.

How to Choose the Best POS System for Your Small Business in 2021

When you’re looking for the best small business point-of-sale (POS) system, it’s important to understand what sorts of tools you need to help run and grow your business.

How to Grow Your Personal Training Business

Here are some tips and tools for standing out across platforms, increasing your reach, and booking new fitness clients.

3 Important Invoice Management Tips for Small Businesses in 2021

Good invoice management encourages regular cash flow, eases accounting woes and saves you time.

How to Build a Personal Trainer Website

Here are seven steps that can help you build out your personal training website.

What is Drop Shipping and How Does it Work?

Drop shipping is a popular inventory method for online businesses. Learn everything about what drop shipping is and how it can work for your business.

How to Write a Killer Bar Business Plan

When you open a bar, it’s crucial to set objectives and strategies to achieve them. Here’s how to write a bar business plan that will roadmap your success.

How to Schedule Your Employees

Employee scheduling may be harder because of COVID-19. Learn expert staff scheduling techniques that can keep your business moving in unpredictable times.

How to Hire Employees: A Checklist

Here’s a checklist for how to hire employees, including what you need to do before and after hiring.

7 Time Management Skills Practiced by Successful People

Be more productive with these top time management techniques, tried and tested by professionals at the top of their game.

How to Track Your Transfers and See Where Your Money Is

Your Square Point of Sale (POS) account’s activated. You’ve linked your business’s bank account. You’ve got your first day of sales under your belt — congrats! But where’s your money?

Why You Should Separate Your Business and Personal Finances

Whether you’re just starting out as a new business owner or you need to reevaluate your business structure, separating your business and personal finances is a must.

What Is an Invoice? A Guide for Business Owners

This guide walks you through the ins and outs of invoicing—everything from invoice templates and workflow to handling late-paying clients.

Retail Dictionary: 101 Important Terms All Retailers Should Know

Our retail dictionary can help you navigate all of the lingo you’re hearing day-to-day and keep you up to date with the latest trends.

How to Write an Employee Handbook

How do you write an employee handbook and what sort of content should you include? Follow our comprehensive guide for policy recommendations and more.

Introducing Square Loans

can Square Loans can help independent sellers like you quickly access the funding you need for moving your business forward.

Competitor Analysis: A Definition and Guide

How to do a competitor analysis and why it’s important for your business

How to Create a Budget for Your Small Business

We’ve put together a six-step guide on how to create — and manage — your small business budget.

What is HST and Who Has to Charge It?

Learn more about harmonized sales tax and how it may apply to your business.

The Homebody Products Shoppers Are Buying More of

The pandemic has turned everybody into a homebody. To give you insight into the trending products you might want to sell, we combed through Square data to identify the comfort items shoppers are buying more of.

What Is a SKU and How Should You Use It?

A stock keeping unit (SKU) is a unique number assigned by a retailer to items in their inventory. Read more on SKUs and how you can get inventory management for free.