How to Make Your Best Employees Stay at Your CompanyFinding good talent is hard. Making them stick around when the competition comes calling can be even tougher.

Q: My entry-level employees keep getting poached. We're on a tight budget -- is the only way to retain talent by paying higher salaries?-- Jessica M., Philadelphia

Jessica,we feel your pain. We had a similar situation at one of our previous companies, where we kept losing employees after only five or six months. The time and money involved inrecruitmentandtraining-- not to mention the effect the constant turnover had on our business and clients -- made us take a hard look at our practices to understand what we could do better to build a long-lasting team.