Professionalisms
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.
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.