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If there’s one thing owners, employees and contractors agree on, it’s that it is always nice to have some skin in the game, especially when business is thriving. A successful profit-sharing program inspires and motivates your employees. It allows you, as the owner, to give back to your team. It even makes for a great story when an employee experiences a windfall.

But for a small business owner, setting up a simple and effective profit-sharing system is a daunting challenge. I know, because I spent the last year building mine.

In today’s article, I’ll show you how to go beyond the common (but misleading) examples of public and venture-backed companies and set up a simple, easy-to-manage, easy-to-understand profit sharing system that will make you and your team members proud.

http://ow.ly/GDek50EhULW

If you’ve read Rob’s Agency Owner’s Guide to Hiring Web Developers, you know that one of his core values is building long-term relationships with both his clients and his team. He treats them as his friends — people he’s going to be working with for many years.

Rob was a recent guest on Susan Boles’ Break the Ceiling podcast to discuss why he prioritizes these long-term relationships and how he orients his business and its offerings to encourage them.

Listen here: http://ow.ly/BhEy50EhTOM

Learn how the principles of managing a team of remote web developers can help you as we all adjust to working from home because of COVID-19.

While the focus of this article is on web developers, many of the same principles can be applied to any remote team. Flexible scheduling, effective communication, and uninterrupted sessions of deep work are all essential to maximizing our productivity at home.

http://ow.ly/IqRu50Efw5d

With the end of the pandemic in sight, the nation is a ball of pent-up demand: for long meals at restaurants with friends, for stress-free air travel, for normalcy in schools, grocery stores and public places.

The one thing we’re not excited about? Going back to the office.

Rob shares his thoughts on the future of work with Entrepreneur:

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/366694