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Revenue Recognition’s Effect On M&A
A change in revenue recognition means a change in the due diligence process. Understanding these changes is critical for companies looking to successfully navigate the landscape of M&A in the future, says Jacqueline Pruscha of Sensiba San Filippo.
Critical Workplace Skills For New Graduates
Despite long hours in the classroom and the high cost of a university education, applicants may find they lack certain critical skills that a growing number of companies desire in their applicants. Michael Timmes, senior human resource specialist at Insperity points out five critical soft skills that many new graduates should develop in order to land a job.
6 Ways To Improve Productivity With Your Online Business
As an online entrepreneur, it is essential to monitor business carefully. Lewis Robinson recommends some tips an individual should consider for productivity.
3 Tools To Help You Get Started With SEO
Nate Vickery, editor-in-chief of Bizzmarkblog.com shares some of the more popular SEO tools he thinks are perfect for beginners who are just making their baby steps in search engine optimization.
How Programmatic Marketing Works
Programmatic marketing involves a computer automatically using data analytics to determine and buy the best digital advertising space for you and suggest how much to pay for the ad space. Tony Schubert, founder and CEO of Nerdigital Marketing explains.
The ROI Of Investing In Your Employees
Investing in employees can be a very beneficial and all-around positive experience for everyone involved. Ideally, employers get far more productivity and less expenses such as interpersonal conflicts, miscommunication and turnover, asserts Kevin Faber, founder of Silver Summit Capital.
What You Can Do To Make Customer Care Your Most Effective Marketing Strategy
What if improving your customer service was all it took to generate more sales and grow your business? Andrew Tillery, Marketing Director for MAP Communications asks that you check the following methods for how you can make customer care your best marketing strategy.
7 Content Marketing Tips For Small Business Owners
Keval Padia, co-founder and CEO at Nimblechapps shares 7 content marketing tips for small business owners.
Use Instagram To Engage Audiences With Your Brand, Intelligently
A study published on Iconosquare has estimated that there are more than 300 million active users on Instagram. What will interest you as a business owner is that 70% of these users have looked up brands on Instagram, says Meenakshi Venugopal, co-founder of Hashtag17.
Great Tech Support – The Answer To Running A Successful Startup
To run a successful startup in the tech industry, you need to understand how critical tech support really is to the livelihood of your business, especially in the competitive landscape of this business, argues James Ontra, CEO of Shufflrr.
How To Negotiate with Vendors, Partners And Employees
Not every entrepreneur or business owner is comfortable negotiating. Many dread the adversarial nature of negotiation. Ross Kimbarovsky, founder of crowdSPRING shares ten suggestions that he hopes will help you negotiate, based on his experience and practice.
8 Things Small Businesses Should Outsource
As a small business owner, it can often feel like you have 1,001 things to do in the run of a day, and not nearly enough hours to get everything done. Liam Martin, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Time Doctor points out eight things that small business owners should outsource:
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.
Six Simple Ways To Digitally Declutter Your Small Business
It’s important for small business owners to clean out their digital lives to keep their computers running quickly and to maximize efficiency. Brad Harding, Technical Support Supervisor for Crucial shares eight tips to help any small business owner take inventory of their digital lives so that they can operate more efficiently.
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.
Payment Challenges And Fixes For Today’s Entrepreneurs
Tina Hsiao, Vice President of Risk & Chargeback Operations at WePay, shares five lessons we’ve learned helping millions of merchants process payments on more than 1,000 online platforms.
Be First In A Queue: Track Your Market
If you want to stay abreast in the industry which is marked by intense competition you need to evolve with emerging trends to keep you ahead of the curve. Sonal Patil, Research Analyst at Market.biz shares some recommendations to catch up with the ever changing market trends, challenges and opportunities.
Top 40 Tips To Prevent Business & Personal Fraud
Fraud and identity theft is a constant concern for both individuals and businesses. Ernie Rossi, Audit Partner at Sensiba San Filippo shares some practical tips to help keep business owners and individuals alert, prepared and guarded against fraud.
Entrepreneurs Need To Protect Their Business, But Where Should They Start?
Entrepreneurs know they need business insurance - but figuring out which kinds can be pretty confusing. Maxime Rieman, Director of Online Channel Product Marketing at CoverWallet shares some key coverage types to consider as you establish and grow your new venture.
How To Avoid Costly Mistakes When Staffing Your Finance Team
Whether we’re talking about your own financial team or third-party vendors, it’s essential to look beyond basic capabilities and performance. Carefully consider personal integrity when vetting anyone who will represent your company, and work to ensure your leadership and policies reward the right actions, argues Michael Burdick, CEO of Paro.
5 Key Ways To Market A Bestselling Book
whether you’re already a published author, currently self-publishing a book, or thinking about writing one, Kendra Newton, Marketing Director of Dey Street Books shares 5 key marketing initiatives that are an integral part of a book’s launch that you should keep on your radar or implement into your own plan
Top 3 Foolish Myths About Creating Your Own Mobile App Revealed
Many of the myths people believe about mobile apps simply aren’t true any longer. Tim Fitzpatrick, President & Founder of Rialto Mobile shares the top 3 myths he sees come up over and over again.
Top Insights From Google’s Video On OKRs
there’s a global interest in using OKRs to accelerate business results and company-wide alignment. Google’s video on OKRs serves as proof – with nearly half a million views, it’s a clear indication of executives’ and managers’ interest in improving goals management practices, says Zorian Rotenberg, CEO of Atiim Inc.
8 Tips For Online Startups To Improve Customer Experience
In a physical environment like a cafe or a restaurant, people recognise that there are external factors that affect their experiences and that these...
Go Global, Stay Local
Whether your company is purely local or has a global footprint, you need to be active and visible on social media. Why? Because your prospects and customers expect you to be findable online, and will consider your absence to be suspicious, perhaps even unprofessional, argues Gail Martin, author of "The Essential Social Media Marketing Handbook".
7 Features Of A Successful Social Media App
Successful social media apps of today have some basic features that app developers need to adopt in building their own social media apps, asserts Harnil Oza, CEO of Hyperlink Infosystem.
5 Company Initiatives That Reduce Employee Burnout
Employee burnout is on the rise thanks to our digital lives. Instead of letting burnout affect your bottom line, stop it in its tracks with these five company initiatives recommended by Jessica Thiefels, owner of Honest Body Fitness.
Estimating App Development: What Small Businesses Need To Know?
A distinctive feature of professional custom software development company is that it will never tell you the price at once, without covering a long list of questions concerning both technical and business sides of your idea, says Julia Kravchenko, partner and VP of HR at Qubit Labs.
How To Hire Great Employees
Ross Kimbarovsky, founder of crowdSPRING says you should look for these habits in potential employees when you interview and make hiring decisions.
4 Emotional Intelligence Skills To Transform Your Leadership Style
In today's work settings, many of the old-style hierarchal and authoritarian styles of leadership have become obsolete. But Steven Stein, Ph.D., author of "The EQ Leader" believes that Practising the four pillars of emotional intelligence can transform your personal and organizational leadership style befitting for today and the future.