Professionalisms
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.
Six Questions To Ask Now (Before Tax Day Creeps Any Closer)
Yes, February is here and tax filing deadlines are getting uncomfortably close. But there's still time to make some savvy tax decisions that will pay off for you and your business. Tax attorney Barbara Weltman identifies several questions you should be asking yourself (and your CPA, of course) right about now.
5 Threats To Your Online Business Reputation
Your online reputation has taken a hit, and you’ve narrowed it down to one of five factors. Heather Landau, founder of Open A European Company.com explains how you can approach each one of them.
Defending Groundbreaking Ideas From Killer Competition
If your idea is truly groundbreaking, then it’s likely that there are others who would be interested in capitalizing upon it themselves. You need to learn how to protect it.
What Entrepreneurs Can Learn About Public Speaking From Donald Trump
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How To Securely Transact With An Overseas Client
Doing business with a client who is based outside your country can be a risky affair. Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com looks at a few ways to deal securely with an overseas client.
5 Essential Guidelines To Selecting The Right CRM For Your Startup
CRM software can really help you build the foundation of a successful startup. Rohit Thakral, CEO of Target Integration, shares some guidelines to help select the right one.
7 Essential Components Of An Effective Video Outreach Strategy
If your business has yet to develop a video marketing plan, you are likely already losing out to competitors savvy enough to incorporate video into their business development plans. Andrea Kalli of www.virtualassist.net/ shares seven crucial tips that need to be integrated into your outreach plans.
3 Ways To Cultivate A Strong Culture With Remote Workers
Research shows that workplaces where culture encourages employees to own their happiness and share the company’s vision will outpace their competitors. Jonathan Sacks, CEO and owner of the PUSH Agency shares three solid tips for cultivating a strong company culture, even in a structure reliant on remote teams.