Professionalisms
Six Tips To Help Businesses Fix Their Broken Hiring Processes
Modern-day hiring is largely broken, but hiring expert Scott Wintrip is fixing it one company at a time. In his new book, High Velocity Hiring, Wintrip explains exactly how to optimize your company's hiring potential and find better job candidates faster than ever before.
10 Tips To After-Hours Professional Gatherings
From office-wide after-hours events, to anniversary parties and corporate retreats, work events are often characterized by a more relaxed, yet professional environment. Sharon Schweitzer shares 10 tips to keep in mind when attending your next after-hours work event.
Why “If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It” Isn’t A Smart Payments Strategy
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is not a strategy that helps companies lean into the future, because it's focused on the past. Thinking a few steps ahead lends a company the advantage of scaling, which translates into moving faster toward goals with less effort, says Lauren Ruef, Research Analyst for Nvoicepay.
The Private Company Council
What has the PCC done for your business lately? Karen Burns, an Assurance Partner at Sensiba San Filippo and the President of the East Bay Manufacturing Group, explores what the Private Company Council can do for midmarket businesses without the vast human and financial resources of larger enterprises.
How You Can Use Personalization As A Marketing Tool
Personalization is a low cost strategy that can yield high response from your customers. Regardless of whether you want to use this as a business model or as a marketing strategy, personalization is a great tool, says Chris Low, founder of MyTeamPlan.
Cyber Security For Your Business – 6 Common Myths Debunked
With more and more businesses embracing the efficiency and accessibility of on-the-go technology and online transactions now being processed quicker than ever, it’s no surprise that these new technologies are also attracting potential security threats. David Midgley, Head of Operations at Total Processing six most common myths regarding cyber security for businesses.
3 Keys To Winning New Customers
One of the most critical activities within a business is to define, without hesitation, the process used to win new customers. Rich Allen, author of “The Ultimate Business Tune Up" shares 3 keys to winning new customers.
5 Tips For Effective Networking
Whether you’re new to networking or have tried it and decided it’s not for you, Amanda Lambert shares some tips for finding a way to make the most out of networking and leave with an armful of leads.
3 Ways To Capitalize On Your Website Traffic
When you receive an influx of organic traffic to your website from social media or quality backlinks, an important question tends to spring to mind: how can you capitalize on this new web traffic to create new customers? Eugenie Delhaye, co-founder of My Little Big Web, shares her view.
How To Boost Productivity with Online Forms
By incorporating online forms into tasks like reimbursement requests, customer contracts, project proposals, and PTO requests, you can save everyone in the company a lot of time, says Ashley Walsh, VP of Marketing for Formstack.
Can Document Management Restore Consumers’ Trust In Enterprises?
To facilitate a much-needed paradigm shift in information management, organizations must rely on new technologies to bridge corporate, consumer, and regulatory interests.
3 Ways To Avoid Being Seen As A Fraud In Your Crowdfunding Campaigns
To keep their customers loyal and expand their businesses beyond crowdfunding, business leaders need to be on top of their supply chain issues. Jesse Kaufman, CEO and founder of ShippingTree shares three ways to manage the process and keep your backers supportive.
How To Use Employee Appreciation Day To Build Culture (The Right Way)
As a manager or leader, it’s easy to take your own agenda into your employee appreciation efforts and ignore what your workers want. Jon Hainstock, co-founder of ZoomShift shares several practical steps you can take to leverage your employee appreciation efforts into culture-building.
7 Secrets To Help The Self-Employed Reduce Their Tax Bill
There are things your tax professional can help you with, but before you head to his or her office, here are a few tips from Brian Ashcraft, Director of Tax Compliance, Liberty Tax Service that can help you reduce your tax bill at tax time.
5 Tips That Will Help You Hire The Right People For Your Startup
If you want to be the leader in your industry, you’ve got to keep the right people by your side. Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli, founder of Weekplan shares 5 hacks that will help you recruit top talent with minimal hassle.
Achieving Greater Agility Through Proper Business Intelligence
How can business intelligence (BI) be your catalyst for taking your profit margins to the next level? Dan McCarthy explains how BI is the gateway for achieving greater agility.
Factors That Affect Debt Consolidation
As you plan to consolidate the debts at your small business, remember that three things will affect the terms you are extended in the consolidation: your personal credit score, your business credit score and the overall state of your business’ finances. Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi, explains.
4 Steps To Creating A Vision For Your Business
You need a clear idea of where you want your business to be ten years from now. If you want to get somewhere and you want people to follow you there, you have to visualize it first: you can’t be a leader without vision, says Rich Allen, author of "The Ultimate Business Tune Up: A Simple Yet Powerful Business Model That Will Transform the Lives of Small Business Owners".
The Importance Of A Local SEO Strategy
In order to stay ahead of the game, you need to determine what your main goals are, and formulate a local SEO strategy. To do this right, you have to be aware of the current trends in search engine optimization and the most important ranking factors, says Amir Noghani, General Manager at GWM SEO Agency.
4 Reasons A Diverse Sales Team Will Boost Revenue
Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting, says they have seen an increasing number of clients recognize the business value in finding diverse sales reps and have identified the top 4 reasons a diverse sales team will boost revenue this quarter.
The Long And Short Of Rebranding Your Business
Rebranding your business can be an exhausting task, but is often necessary especially if it is done under desperate circumstances. Chris Low, founder of MyTeamPlan, explores the issue.
Professional Organizer Tips For Your Business
The New Year brings new opportunities to fine-tune things that work and change things that don’t. One of the best resolutions you can make for your business is to get organized. Lea Schneider shares some professional organizer tips.
Startup Business Investments Around The World
If you’re looking to invest in or launch a startup, Rocky Chan, business consultant for Enterph.com shares some basics about the business.
Pay Your Payroll Tax With R&D Credits
Senior Tax Manager at Sensiba San Filippo Evan Stephens and Carlos Freitas, Director with Hull & Knarr LLP, shares how start-up companies have an opportunity to save cash.
8 Ways Small Businesses Can Stay Competitive With SEO
Maulik Patel, managing director at HireSEOAgency shares some foolproof ways through which your business can stay effectively in the market with SEO.
e-Commerce: Why You Need It And How To Do It Right
E-commerce is well within reach of virtually every small retail business, and with consumers demanding an easier way to find and purchase products, businesses need to incorporate an online sales strategy to remain relevant. John Donovan, CEO of Bizfi shares how and why.
7 Ways To Spot If An Interviewee Is Right For Your Team
Each business has its own definition of “Googleyness”, but essentially, an interviewer is looking for candidates that for candidates who fit in with their team. Phil White, Managing Director at Novell Coffee, takes us through ways to spot them.
What’s The Most Important Trait To Look For In An Employee?
Hiring is far more art than science. You could easily ask five great businesspeople about the best way to hire talent and get five different answers. The answer? Go with your gut, says Kyle Zagrodzky, president of OsteoStrong.
6 Things Every Startup Needs To Know To Attract Top Talent
When you are still building credibility, and finding your place in a competitive market, it is especially important to hire the right employees. But, how? Kelly Barcelos of Jobsoid shares six approaches to hire top talent.
Insuring Directors And Officers Through M&A And IPO Events
Corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offerings (IPO) bring necessary capital and resources to a growing company. But, these transactions can also be the impetus for legal recourse - a significant liability for the company’s directors and officers, says Jeff Van Gulick, Senior Vice President, Commercial Lines Practice Leader, HUB International.