Professionalisms
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.
How To Use Social Media To Promote Your App
Juned Ghanchi, CEO of IndianAppDevelopers discusses some time-tested ways to use social media to promote your app.
Five Critical Ways To Become Indispensable In Business
Competition is fiercer today than ever before, and no matter how much you focus on data, analytics, and performance, it may surprise you that what ultimately matters the most to people is the human touch. Rick Wong, author of "Winning Lifelong Customers With The Five Abilities" describes the five critical factors that keep people coming back for more.
What Entrepreneurs Need To Understand About Adverse Actions
Under most anti-retaliation laws related to whistleblowing, employees must prove that an employer took “adverse action” against them in order to mount a successful legal claim. What do you need to know about adverse actions to protect your young startup from complaints of unfair retaliation? Richard Gertler, managing partner of Gertler Law Group, LLC, shares.
Why Every Small Business Owner Needs Disability Insurance
As a small business owner, it’s important to prepare for the worst-case scenario, in which you’re no longer able to perform the duties essential to running your business. Richard Reich, President of Intramark Insurance shares the many reasons why you should consider purchasing disability insurance sooner rather than later.
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.
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.
5 Mantras Every CEO Should Live By
To experience true 360 degree life success, Kevin Faber, founder of Silver Summit Capital shares 5 mantras he believes every CEO should live by.
3 Reasons To Reconsider Pre-packing Your Company
Prepack administration is an insolvency process. It is used by insolvency practitioners to sell the assets and business of an insolvent company as soon as it enters administration. Eamonn Wall, managing director of Robson Scott Associates shares a few potential reasons why you should reconsider pre-packing your company when that happens.
No Never Means No: Beating The Fear Of Rejection
We are often taught that No’s are a necessary evil, or a hurdle to overcome. Once you understand why you need the No’s, you will uncover objections, make the tough calls, and find creative ways to break through walls and barriers, insists Shari Levitin, CEO of Shari Levitin Group and author of "Heart and Sell: 10 Universal Truths Every Salesperson Needs to Know".
Why the Practices Of Great Leadership Stay the Same As The World Changes Around...
Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner have just released the sixth edition of their bestseller The Leadership Challenge. In it they shine a light on the practices that still make the best leaders the best — even after three decades that rocked the business world off its foundations.
How Do You Spell CRM Evolution? With 4 Cs.
Currency, correctness, consistency and completeness are – and, arguably, have always been – the most effective path toward forging intimate, long-term relationships with customers. John Oechsle, CEO of Swiftpage, explains.
Top 10 Benefits Of Lean
Due to its roots in manufacturing, Lean is often equated with the elimination of waste, but this view of Lean misses the mark on realizing its true value, argues Denise Grey, CMO at LeanKit
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.
5 Ways To Ensure You’re Hiring The Right Sales Rep
The last thing you want to do is invest valuable time onboarding a sales rep only to find out later that they just can't cut it. Reuben Yonatan, founder and CEO of GetVoIP and GetCRM points out a few ways you can entirely avoid that issue.
Real Growth Is Hiding Where You Aren’t Looking
Market opportunities are hidden in plain sight all around you. They are terribly difficult to spot however, until viewed through a specific lens. Taddy Hall, Eddie Yoon and Linda Deeken from The Cambridge Group shares how you can do so.
Five Ways Your Business Can Use Facebook Live
Live video has definitely captured the attention of the Internet. Specifically, Facebook Live has become a popular go-to for business and individuals alike. Amber Henning, Digital Marketing Strategist at Social Eyes Marketing shares five tips for business looking to leverage this online platform for better brand and product awareness.
Getting Found Starts Before You Launch Your Website
If you are just forming a new company then invest some time exploring how to get found before you begin developing your site, insists Matthew Murray, Managing Director of Notable.
How To Be A Great Leader
Many people confuse leadership and management. They are not the same. Ross Kimbarovsky, founder of crowdSPRING highlights 5 tips to help you succeed as a leader.
3 Basic Contract Clauses You Should Never Forget To Include
Many small firms and private contractors make the mistake of immediately going straight to work once an agreement is reached without creating a legally binding contract that spells out the exact terms and conditions of their relationship.