Professionalisms
Friends In Remote Places – Nurturing Relationships With Unlikely Suppliers
Ever tried starting a business that is almost entirely reliant on individuals without access to phone or email, who are based in remote villages on the other side of the world? Rob Arnott, founder of Okapi Home, a UK-based homeware brand sourcing all its products from small-scale businesses in East and Southern Africa, offers his advice.
Rules To Live By
We are often running from fire to fire and don’t think about the ways we can be more efficient, more balanced, more rested and more effective. With a little attention to your work day, you can vastly improve your performance - Michael Dermer, is author of "The Lonely Entrepreneur", shares how.
Must-Have Tips To Help Small Businesses Utilize Social Media
Founder/CEO/ chairman of Schedulicity, Jerry Nettuno, shares must have tips for small business owners and service providers looking to build credibility in their field.
Sales Success Begins And Ends With Engagement
As a sales leader, Kurt Bilafer's professional life is filled with quotas, metrics and dashboards. But if the Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay had to pick just one thing he's optimizing for, it would be engagement.
Turn Small Business Saturday Traffic Into Future Sales: Five Ways The Right CRM Can...
John Oechsle, President and CEO of Swiftpage shares five ways your customer relationship management (CRM) system can help you turn Small Business Saturday into future sales.
Are You Penny-Pinching Yourself Out of Business? Five Expenses You Should Never, Ever Skimp...
If you’re a small business owner, it’s probably a vast understatement to say that you don’t have money to burn. But according to Sean C. Castrina, there are some areas in which it doesn’t pay to cut costs. Here, he outlines five areas in which you should never be cheap.
3 Keys To Being A Great Leader In Your Company
The efficient management of a business requires a lot of sacrifice and perseverance, since to be a good leader you must actively involve yourself with the project you manage and have a close working relationship with your workforce. Norman McBrien, co-founder and Head of Operations of GoConqr shares three keys to manage a business with productivity and efficiency.
Things To Consider Before Hiring A PR Firm
Finding the right PR firm can be a lot like dating; it could just be a gut instinct that tells you that you’ve found the one. Rebekah Epstein, founder of fifteen media shares few things you can consider that will help you make the right decision.
The “Grow or Die” Lie: Why Everything You Think You Know About Business Growth...
For decades entrepreneurs have been boldly following what they think they know about business growth. And for decades, they’ve folded under the pressures of improperly managed growth. Professor Ed Hess debunks some popular myths about growth and provides proven truths to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses successfully.
5 Features Of An Effective And Efficient Accounting Close
The accounting close process is a time-critical activity with an often unforgiving deadline. No matter the size and complexity of your organization, your industry or number of locations, you likely have the challenge of the monthly accounting close. Kevin Shives, partner at Sensiba San Filippo shares the five things all effective and efficient closes have.
Hiring A Web Developer: 11 Questions You Must Ask Ahead Of Time
If you are a business owner who is not an expert in web development, finding someone (or an agency) you can trust to build your website is critical. Founder of web development firm Pixafy, Uri Foox, shares eleven questions to ask your would-be developers before you make a decision.
10 Ways To Increase Your Brand Awareness
A business is only as successful to the extent that consumers are aware of the company. This is why branding is everything. Dan McCarthy, event manager for Venueseeker looks at 10 ways to give your company a boost to get potential customers to take notice.
The Heart Of The Game: PR Lessons Learned From Game Of Thrones
The fictional series may seem like a study in real-life Machiavellianism but Leslie Licano, co-founder and CEO of Beyond Fifteen Communications, says it’s also a primer in modern-day public relations.
How A New Boss Can Be A Fresh Start
A change in leadership can feel disruptive to your life at work. But, is upheaval a bad thing? Disruption is a powerful force that can be harnessed for good, insists Cheryl Hyatt, partner at Hyatt-Fennell.
Three Lessons For Building A Successful Company With Sustainability Benefits
If you are building a company with sustainability benefits, you need to invest your time into getting clarity about your market and customers and building momentum around your product. Joanna Malaczynski, founder of DESi shares three tips.
Community Relations And The Small Business
If you own a small business, good public relations is essential to its success. TJ Saunders shares five ways that you can develop positive relationships with the community that you serve.
Ten Things You Can Do By December 31st To Cut Your 2016 Tax Bill
Excerpted from J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2017, here are some simple steps you can take right now to decrease your 2016 tax bill.
Is Your Business Telling The Right Story?
The businesses that stand out don't just state "we are the best" or focus on the ROI of their products. Rather, they tell a story that sparks an emotional connection with prospects. Justin Champion, author of Inbound Content, offers seven tips to help you get started telling yours.
3 Ways To Increase Your Google Ranking
Climbing the ranks on Google doesn’t have to be this mercurial thing that only SEO gurus know how to manage. Adam Witty, author of “Authority Marketing“ shares a few tips.
Six Ways To An Effective Team Meeting
Every business manager wants to ensure that his team performs. In order to ensure performance, team meetings need to be effective. But what does this actually mean?
Creating Teams
Performance within groups typically does not just happen. Bruce Hodes, author of "Front Line Heroes", shares some basic truths about building teams.
Moving Your Business To Greener Pastures?
An office move can be quite a complex process, so let’s look at some of the things you’ll need to consider before you make your move.
What Makes an Exceptional Leader? A Comparison of Historic Antarctic Expedition Commanders.
The polar adventures of Shackleton, Scott, and Amundsen provide fundamental leadership lessons for any leader. Dennis N.T. Perkins, author of "Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition" explains some of these.
Why Your Customer Service Overhaul Has To Happen Fast And Furious
When looking to revolutionize the way your company approaches service, you might think it’s best to slowly ease into things — to start with one group of employees and let the new initiatives flow to the rest of the company. Actually, says Ron Kaufman, the
opposite is usually true. When you want a revolution, you need to go big and go fast!
Five Ways To Attract New Customers And Grow Your Business
By exploring customer service initiatives, new sales channels, and private label financing, to name a few, you can attract and keep new customers, says Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director of Balboa Capital.
Real Time Bidding In The European Market
Real Time Bidding (RTB) focuses on the auctioning of ad space on a per-impression basis, with the auctioning process being completed before the page is loaded, meaning the user never sees the process taking place.
Must-Haves For Your Online Store In 2015
With continued innovation in e-commerce technologies, what should online merchants do to take advantage of such innovation to keep their online store abreast in 2015?
How To Enrol Your Sales Team In The All Important Collections Process
Historically, the interaction between the credit collections department and the sales team has been an adversarial relationship. Todd McDaniel, Vice President at Dynavistics Inc. says it is important that both work together on collections so that a business will see great improvements in consistent cash flow.
Keeping Your Overheads Down When You Travel For Business
Travelling for business can become an expensive affair, especially when you have to do it quite often. If you are having trouble managing your travel expenses, you will find the following tips helpful.
Why “If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It” Isn’t A Smart Payments Strategy
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is not a strategy that helps companies lean into the future, because it's focused on the past. Thinking a few steps ahead lends a company the advantage of scaling, which translates into moving faster toward goals with less effort, says Lauren Ruef, Research Analyst for Nvoicepay.