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4 Ways CEOs Can Overcome Mistrust And Make Marketing Their New Best Friend
When done well, marketing will make a CEO look great. Denise Kohnke shates four tips to help CEOs communicate better with their marketing team and give it the kind of support it needs.
Business Philosophy: Asserting Authority vs. Deferring To Experts
Now, a decision needs to be made and as a leader, the final say is yours. When is the right time to trust your gut and when should you defer to your experts?
How To Build A More Cohesive Team – Better Communication And Collaboration Is Essential
Do your business teams collaborate well, with excellent communication and shared ideas? Find out how to achieve this type of cohesiveness for your company.
Want To Thrive In Today’s High-Speed, Hypercompetitive Business World? Teach Your Managers To Iterate
If you want to run a fast, flexible, focused management team, Ed Muzio shares five key practices you should use.
Free Has No Value
When you give without getting anything in return, you actively undermine your value, argues Paul Cherry, author of "The Ultimate Sales Pro".
The Startup Guide To Training Your Sales Team
Employee training is a long term process and to run a successful business, it is important for all organizations, big and small, to establish standard operating procedures as early as they can.
Eight Ways To Become A More Effective Leader
Remember that as a leader, your employees are looking to you to set an example, says Harrison Rogers, founder and CEO of HJR Global.
5 Must-Know eCommerce Tips For Small Businesses
eCommerce is really the only way for businesses to stay alive today, especially as a small business or retailer. Why? Because your customers don’t always live in your neighborhood, Dave Woodward, Chief Revenue and Business Development Officer at ClickFunnels points out.
5 Ways To Build Your Brand Organically
To grow your brand organically, you have to literally plant your seeds, nurture them, and watch the seeds grow. Kevin Stimpson, CEO of Strive & Grind shares 5 steps to help you get there.
If You Want To Make A Sale, Stop Selling And Take These 4 Steps...
Kory Angelin, author of "#sellout: How a Great Experience Can Help You #sellout of Your Product" says that in order to get over that customer wall and actually make a sale, sales people need to know how to stop selling.
User Experience Best Practices For Capturing Consent Post-GDPR
Consent is just one aspect of GDPR where UX designers can provide support to help businesses adhere to the new data protection regulation. Gareth Botha, UX Designer at Evident shares some ways that UX can support compliance.
How A Strong Logo And Brand Can Help Your Etsy Store Thrive
People may come to Etsy for its unusual and novel wares, but they also look for the personality and humanity behind the products.
Start Up Your Culture, Series A, B And C
Though most founders would agree culture is important in an organization’s success, it often takes a back seat to product development and generating a profit in the early stages of an organization’s life.
Why Consumer Brands Need To Keep An Eye On Their eCommerce Channel
If you’re a brand that is utilising eCommerce sites, don’t sit back and assume things are taken care of. Shailendra Nagarajan of DataWeave shares that with effective brand analytics, you can gain back control of your brand and of your products.
Are Your Business’ Marketing Efforts Without Lift-Off? Here’s Why.
For every published case study of successful marketing or advertising, there are hundreds of failed campaigns, muffed trials and fumbled ideas. Denise Kohnke, author of "All Of The Other Marketing Books Are Crap" shares the four possible reasons why marketing efforts never get off the ground.
6 Steps To Creating Communities That Enable People To Achieve The Unimaginable
For young entrepreneurs creating a new corporate culture from the ground up, providing employees with opportunities to form micro communities outside of the workplace may help combat loneliness inside the office.
Leveraging Leadership Styles As An Entrepreneur
Understanding the different leadership styles gives you tools to improve your own practices as a leader, and new ways to guide your business. Kevin Abdulrahman, author of "The Book On Winning The Game Of Life" shares when and how to use the right style in the right situation.
Secrets To Success: What This Maverick Turnaround Expert Learned From An Extraordinary Six-Year-Old
Rick Miller is a turnaround expert who've seen marvellous examples of powerful leadership. But a six-year old taught him lessons he'd learn to apply from the outside to benefit the Fortune 50 and multinational organizations he's turned around.
How To Speak Your Audience’s Language
Explaining your ideas in your own language is easy, describing them in a way that your audience will clearly understand takes time and effort, says Allison Shapira.
Franchises And Entrepreneurship: Some Things That You Should Know
Across the UK budding entrepreneurs are entering franchises and studying the market. It can be a great long-term investment especially for those wishing to diversify their business models or enter entirely new businesses.
Quantified Commerce Shares: Understanding Vertical Integration And Why It Is The Path To Success
Vertical integration is a strategy where a firm owns or runs several stages of production, including taking raw materials and turning them into finished products.
Why Home Businesses Need Data Protection Plans
Home business owners need to shift their thinking when it comes to data. It’s often their most valuable non-people asset, one that is used to reach customers, process payments, and perform all of the functions that make a business viable, says David Zimmerman.
Tackling The Talent Gap: Best Practices For Uncovering New Hires
When entrepreneurs don’t hire and retain the right talent, it can make the challenge of building a business even more difficult. Kristy Campbell, Chief Operating Officer at Rev1 Ventures shares some tips for startups tackling the talent gap.
Startup Founders: Three Must-Ask Questions About Your Data Privacy
In the rush to cultivate clients and consider business scalability, many startups may fail to truly appreciate the immense responsibility that comes with gathering and storing data in the current digital environment, says David Thomas, CEO of data security provider Evident.
How To Improve Your In-App Advertising Performance
Advertising has massively shifted towards adaptation - device, platform, personal user tastes. Karen Karalash explains how the interactive features of the new ad formats, increased in-app experience, and the value they bring have helped all parties benefit.
6 Tips And Tricks To Improving Your Payables Process
While cleaning AP's processes may not be glamorous, it's a task that must be done and done regularly.
Ralph Perdomo of Nvoicepay shares 6 tips and tricks will get your AP process shining in no time.
Timing Matters – A Sneak Peek Into The Mobile App Development Process
Development of a mobile app is a long and cumbersome process comprising of a lot of phases. Read this article and you will understand the importance of app development process and each of its phases.
The Four Types Of Objections That Derail Salespeople (And How To Deal With Them)
Selling is a process, and prospects will say no, in different ways and with different words, at every stage of the journey. Sales acceleration expert Jeb Blount identifies the four types of objections you'll encounter and offers some powerful techniques for turning them around.
Three Ways Your Labels Can Make You More Sales
A label may not be one of the first things that comes to an entrepreneur’s mind when considering ways to create more sales growth, but it definitely should be, says Jared Powell, Principal at Frontier Label.
5 Ways To Coach Your Sales Staff Like A Winning Sports Team
Lance Tyson, author of "Selling Is An Away Game" shares five ways sales leaders can improve their coaching of their sales teams and thus facilitate more team success – much like a sports coach looks for ways to lead his or her team to more wins.