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No Meeting Wednesday

September 23, 2020/in Advice /by BOOST

We recently implemented “No Meeting Wednesday” here at BOOST after piloting the program with our leadership. First note: we HIGHLY recommend it. Here are some thoughts/considerations on the experience, from a back-office GovCon services perspective. What was the Driving Force? I don’t know about you, but we are spending ENDLESS hours on Zoom or Teams […]

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Marketing Your Business, Consistency is Key

September 16, 2020/in Business Development, Services /by BOOST

Do us a favor and imagine our best James Earl Jones impression “…and if you’ll look to your inbox, everyone is writing about COVID.” We know, we know. While we may be exhausted by the constant deluge of COVID this, and social distancing that, the fact remains that the way we do business now has changed. Forever. This doesn’t […]

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Preparing for the Unthinkable

August 19, 2020/in Advice /by BOOST

No one prepares you or tells you what to do if you lose an employee (abducted by aliens, ghosted, or the absolute worst, if they pass away). Never mind if they are a trusted member of your leadership team. There’s no playbook. SHRM provides one article with cold notification text for telling your employees. There […]

Remaining Current on Information Regarding COVID and the Workplace

August 11, 2020/in Advice, Services /by BOOST

Editor’s Note: This Article Has Been Updated September 9, 2022 In this time of uncertainty, information overload, not to mention public and political debate over what is the right course of action (and who is to blame for the mistakes of said actions), is rampant. It is difficult to know exactly what is useful and […]

GovCon Industry 4th Quarter… Who the Heck Knows?

August 5, 2020/in Advice, GovCon /by BOOST

‘Tis the quarter of last-minute contract proposals, mad scrambles for key personnel, task order bidding, and trying to keep everything straight between whose team you are on and for what. Add that to trying to manage multiple folks on vacation and everyone suffering from a bit of summer head (i.e. we’d rather be at the […]

Top Tips for Choosing an Accounting System

July 27, 2020/in Services /by BOOST

As we discussed previously, accounting implementations are like dentist visits (sorry dental friends), necessary but definitely not fun. Yet, before we get to the implementation part, we have to go through the process of system selection; identifying and choosing the best system for your business. We’ve compiled what we consider to be the top tips […]

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Hot Tips from the SCA Nuts & Bolts Webinar

July 20, 2020/in GovCon, Services /by BOOST

Updated 03/17/2023 Last week Mary Holmes of BOOST LLC and Nichole Atallah of PilieroMazza PLLC educated their webinar audience on SCA Compliance, Sick Time (as it pertains to FAR 52.222-43) and Common Challenges in complying with FAR 52.222-43 and SCA Health and Welfare as a whole. While we encourage you to view the webinar in […]

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Current Events and the Job Market

July 9, 2020/in Advice /by BOOST

Updated 03/17/2023 It goes without saying that the world is in quite an upheaval in culture and moving toward a new normal. Yet, as we’ve said before, business must continue especially in the GovCon market and that includes hiring. We must ask: Are you in the job market right now? If so, you’re probably questioning […]

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Staring “New-Normal” in the Face

June 24, 2020/in Advice /by BOOST

Updated 03/10/2023 Are we ready to start talking about “coming back?” In our humble opinion, regardless of what any politician says, we are not “back” until we can get our kids out of our house (sanity now!), but that’s a whole other story! Honestly, we’re not sure if its safe yet, or what “coming back” […]

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The CARES Act and 3610 Guidance for the Intelligence Community

June 15, 2020/in Advice /by BOOST

Updated 03/10/2023 Guidance for the Intelligence Community is always changing. Yet currently those changes seem to be in hyper-drive. Luckily, we have experts like Amy Hernandez at BOOST LLC and partners like Pete Ragone from the SC&H Group to help us navigate these waters. In an information-packed hour-long virtual discussion, Amy and Pete walked attendees […]

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