Thinking Aloud
How To Sell Your Ecommerce Business For Maximum Value
You’ve spent a ton of time and money into developing a profitable ecommerce business, and you’ve decided it’s time to sell. Do you know what to do to ensure that you get the best possible price for your business? Jack Purtle, CEO of Digital Exits, explores.
The Parenting Of Corporate America (Or Tips On When And How To Say “No”...
Veteran project manager and PMO director Russell Harley says that project managers - who actually deal with the "real world" on a regular basis - unfortunately have to be the parents to those executives who no longer understand how reality functions. By saying no.
Four Money-Saving Tips To Extend The Life Of Your Company’s Computers
When it comes to your business’ technology, it can be overwhelming to know whether you are using the most efficient tools and devices. Brad Harding, a tech guru at Crucial.com, offers some tech tips can help you save money while offering optimal computer performance.
3 Ways Technology Is Changing Small Business Lending
The Internet has helped change the banking landscape remarkably, and consumers can now conduct a wide variety of bank-related transactions from the comfort of their computers, tablets and mobile devices. Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director, Balboa Capital looks at three ways technology has changed business lending.
Lenovo Starts To Play In The “Things” Market: TBR
The Internet of Things offers device vendors like Lenovo the opportunity to diversify their consumer portfolios, increase revenue and profits, and establish deeper relationships with customers, argues Ezra Gottheil, principal analyst at Technology Business Research.
The Battle Between Baby Boomers And Millennials
Instead of seeing Millennials as risky hires, employers should start looking at what they can bring to your business, says Rob Wilson, CEO of Employco USA.
10 Crowdfunding Tips & Tricks: WePay
There is plenty to be done on the front end to create a successful crowdfunding campaign in the public eye. Bill Clerico, CEO and co-founder of WePay shares some things he's seen that work.
Solving The Chicken And Egg Equation In A Marketplace Business
A classic chicken and egg problem hits every other business that intermediates between two categories of people, explains Jay Barnett, founder of Priority Pickup.
How To Motivate Your Employees To Save On Business Travel
Dan Ruch, founder and CEO of Rocketrip believes that consciously affecting positive change on a company's travel culture will help save more money and make employees happier. He offers these five steps to motivate cost-conscious travel.
Crowdsourcing Your Next Design Project From Designhill
When it comes to crowdsourcing marketplaces, consider Designhill, one of the world’s largest and most reliable custom design crowdsourcing marketplaces.
It May Be An Open Book, But The EU Ain’t On The Best-Seller List
More and more small businesses are, out of necessity, looking outwards, particularly to EU and other countries within Europe. According to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), which has more than 200,000 members, around a quarter already export there, a figure which is expected to grow.
Saving Universities From Extinction No Easy Task
Universities are as outmoded as buggy whips. David E. Goldberg, founder of ThreeJoy Associates, Inc. and co-author of "A Whole New Engineer" looks at some controversial ideas on why universities are so dysfunctional, and also some recommendations regarding how universities can adapt, survive and thrive.
The Great Cross-Border Opportunity
Cross-border e-commerce has its roots in consumer desire for better deals and an increasingly array of items, and represents a huge opportunity for businesses, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), says Dr. Karen Reddington, President of FedEx Express, South Pacific.
Ten Conversations That Are Undermining Your Strategy And Killing Performance
Is what your employees are saying more damaging than what they are (or aren't) doing? Yes, says Dan Prosser. He explains how damaging conversations can kill performance and sink your organization.
Marketers Focus More Attention on Mobile Gaming
Today mobile gaming isn’t just for the anti-social, it’s for everyone. And that’s not just triggering a shift in social order, it’s also changing the tides in marketing – specifically demanding that marketers and manufacturers pay attention to the fast-growing demographic of the mobile gamer, says Jessica Oaks.
3 Reasons Leaders Can’t Keep An Open Mind
Keeping an open mind unfortunately is a concept utterly disregarded by many individuals in leadership positions throughout the corporate world today, asserts business and management consultant Brian Ray, who is the author of "Revelations Incorporated".
4 Yoga Principles That Will Make You Unstoppable In Business
Not only is yoga good for the mind, body, and spirit, but it can also be a valuable tool for enhancing your business, says Paresh Shah, founder and CEO of Glimpulse. He shares four powerful yoga principles to apply to your startup.
Are You Living For The Weekends? Tactics to Help You Turn TGIF into TGIM
If you're one of the many Americans who live for the weekends and dread Mondays, you may think that it'll always be this way. Peter K. Studner begs to differ. Here, he shares proven tactics to help you breathe new life into your career and (yes!) thank God for Mondays.
A Collaboration Crash Course: How To Join Forces With Other Women
Collaboration is an incredibly valuable skill in today's marketplace, and what's more, women are naturals at it. But if you've always been the "lone (she) wolf" type, you may not know how to get started. Dr. Nancy D. O'Reilly offers 10 tactics to kick-start your collaborating career.
Modern Startups: How To Grow A Green Business From The Get Go
There are always tips and helpful directions that you could use to assist you in your quest to launch the country's next green business venture. Scott Byrom, head of commercial for domestic energy at UKPower.co.uk shares some actions you can take to set your green startup on the path to success:
How To Get Help With Managing Innovation
Too many businesses think that innovation and strategy is one and the same thing. Innovation is not about creating a clear path to achieve your goals. Rather, it is about knowing that you have a goal and applying new solutions to achieving that.
Is Bootstrapping Hindering Your Business Competency?
The truth with bootstrapping is that business owners always tend to operate on extremely tight budgets. What this often translates into is that their operational efficiency leaves a lot to be desired, muses Anand Srinivasan is the founder of LeadJoint.com.
Why Everyone Wants To Be Agile
What does it mean to be agile and do agile as a business unit? Rob Bellenfant, founder and CEO of TechnologyAdvice explores the ways agile methodology can work outside of software.
Lead Like A Girl: 10 Ways To Put Your Feminine Strengths To Work At...
As we move further into the 21st century, the face of leadership is becoming more and more feminine. Here, the coauthor of Leading Women shares 10 traditionally feminine
strengths that make women ideally suited to take their place as leaders.
It’s Not About The Money: How Good Value And Customer Experience Trump Price
There’s nothing unusual or unreasonable about a customer who considers each purchase of a product or service from a self-centered point of view. After all, they’re paying a price, says Trevor Gnesin, president of Logomark.
10 Easy Hints To Help You Move Beyond “Surface” Networking And Make Deep Connections
If you want to join the women-helping-women movement, you're already looking for opportunities to make deeper, more meaningful connections, support each other, and make the world a better place. Dr. Nancy D. O'Reilly offers 10 tips to help you supercharge your new connections.
4 Reasons Small Businesses Fail
What separates new businesses that flourish from those that close in disappointment? Brian Sutter, Director of Marketing, Wasp Barcode Technologies looks at the four of the top reasons he believes why small businesses fail within the first year.
Don’t Let Your Alarm Clock Stifle Your Productivity
The rude awakening of an abrupt morning alarm virtually guarantees that any side of the bed you wake up on will be the wrong one. Anthony Johnson, the founder and CEO of American Injury Attorney Group offers five reasons to unplug your alarm clock permanently and start working a schedule that works for you.
The Truth About ‘Zero-Hour Contracts’
Whether we would like to acknowledge it or not, zero-hours contracts have an undeniable presence in the working world. But Chloe Hashemi, marketing consultant for film and video production company LAMBDA Films, thinks such arrangements can be exploitative.
The Women-Helping-Women Movement Is All About Connecting; Here Are 11 Ways To Do It...
Making meaningful connections with other women can change your life (not to mention the world). Problem is, many of us don't know how — or where — to do it. Dr. Nancy D. O'Reilly offers 11 tips to help you improve your connecting skills.