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Three Ways To Best Protect Your Business’ Data During Hurricane Season
Hurricane season is fast approaching and this year’s forecasted storm activity is abnormally high. Bryan Gregory is the Senior Vice President and General Manager at Aldridge shares how business owners can incorporate the following procedures to help prevent inconvenient and expensive data loss incidents due to a hurricane, or other natural disaster.
4 Creative Ways To Finance Your Growing Business
When evaluating one financing option or another, always try to think about both the cost and, perhaps more importantly, what the money is going to allow you to do, shares Krista Morgan, CEO and co-founder of P2BInvestor.
Use Desktop Management To Stay Focused
Those with a cluttered desk may tell you they can find everything they could need, as they gesture toward piles that have grown from desktop to floor. Really, all they know is that whatever they need is in there somewhere, says professional organization expert Lea Schneider.
Think Long To Succeed In The Immediate
Dana A. Oliver, author of "Mantra Design" highlights the importance of focusing on some of the few truly strategic initiatives to ensure early business success for young upstarts.
Why Innovation Depends As Much On Personality As Skill
Amidst continuous cycles of innovation and disruption, leaders can no longer rely on single individuals to reach the finish line ahead of the competition. Instead, they need teams in which individuals play to their natural strengths. Merrick Rosenberg, author of "The Chameleon" looks at four core personality styles that play a specific role in innovation.
Five Legal Tips For Startups
Unfortunately, in an effort to get the business off the ground, many new founders overlook the importance of legally protecting their business and themselves. Matthew Horn, Esq., President and Co-Founder of Legal Services Link shares five important legal tips for startups.
Does Your Company Need A Service Overhaul? Eight “Red Flags” That Demand Action.
Clues that the service you're providing might be eliciting more "mehs" than "WOWs" can be pretty subtle. Customer experience thought leader Joseph Michelli reveals eight warning signs you might want to pay attention to right now.
Business Liability 101: What You Need To Understand About Risk And Your Business
Business liability and risk apply to each and every business in each and every avenue. As for those risks you and your business will be liable for, Ryan Hanley, Vice President of Marketing at TrustedChoice.com looks at three big exposures to consider.
6 Tips For Managing Millennial Sales Representatives
Sometimes managing millennials takes a little extra “care and feeding” in order to get the most from these young men and women. Geoff Winthrop, Executive Vice President and Partner at Acquirent, LLC shares tips for managing and instilling motivation in millennial sales representatives.
Seven Career Killers And How To Avoid Them
The sneaky career killers are the ones that snag you and take you by surprise while you’re showing up on time, working hard, and doing a good job. They are the ones to watch out for, and Becki Saltzman, author of "Living Curiously: How to Use Curiosity to be Remarkable and Do Good Stuff" shares what they are.
In Tough Conversations, Seek To Complete, Not Compete
Difficult conversations are necessary — at least if you want people to correct mistakes, learn, and grow. But author of "Taking Conversations from Difficult to Doable" Lynne Cunningham says they can be less difficult if you just remember one critical rule: You're trying to help, not win.
How To Nurture User Engagement Through Gamification
What exactly is gamification? In its simplest sense, this is the process of rewarding customers for completing tasks that you measure and thus channeling your visitors through a funnel that drives conversion. Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com shares some prominent ways to drive user engagement.
Leadership Through A Transparent Lens
By Conor Delaney, founder and Chief Executive Officer at Good Life Advisors
Fiduciary responsibility is a two-way street paved with trust. Trust that the client is...
Five Crucial Ingredients For Your Closest Business Relationships
by Dr. Henry Cloud, author of "The Power of the Other"
Every entrepreneur and business leader worries about the strategy and business plan. They know it...
The Unwritten Rules Of Shared Office Spaces
There are some ‘unwritten rules’ if you will, that apply to working in a shared office space, so let’s take a look at some of them here in the hopes that it helps you to keep a happy office.
Basic IP Tips Every Entrepreneur Should Know
As an entrepreneur, you must be a step ahead of the competition, which means you need robust IP protection in place as early as possible. Paige Zandri, Attorney Network Director at Priori Legal shares about four classes of protected IP - trademarks, patents, copyrights, and trade secrets - that you should look at.
How To Own Your Performance Review
Mention “performance review” and even the most unflappable employees feel sparks of dread or resentment. No one likes to see his or her hard work and contributions reduced to a mere number or rating. M. Tamra Chandler, author of "How Performance Management Is Killing Performance - and What to Do About It" shares five insider tips that will help you own it.
Tips On Starting A Business Without Sabotaging Your Personal Finances
Too many people put their personal finances at risk to launch a business, but Tim Steffen, Director of Financial Planning for Baird, believe it can be done without sabotaging your financial future.
Grow Your Business By Hiring Nurturing Leaders
When looking to hire women for leadership positions, the conclusion for those in the public or private sector is that to be perceived as competent, women in authority have to be assertive, perhaps even ruthless in their decisions, and autocratic in their style. But such "Machiavellian Marys" kills potential, argue Shoba Sreenivasan, Ph.D. & Linda E. Weinberger, Ph.D., authors of "Psychological Nutrition".
How To Convert Your Innovation Into A Running Business
Saad Amanullah Khan, author of "It's Business, It's Personal: From Setting a Vision to Delivering it Through Organizational Excellence" says one of the greatest challenges any start-up, entrepreneur or an existing business can face is how to convert their innovation or unique idea into an actual running, profitable and sustainable business.
5 Ways Artists Can Work Like Entrepreneurs
“How am I going to make a creative living and a life?” is a question that can be daunting for artists, writers, performers and musicians at all stages in their careers, whether just starting out fresh, mid-career, or choosing to focus on artistic work full time after a lifetime of balancing it with other jobs. Laura Zabel, founder of Creative Exchange shares a toolkit that can help.
Sales Success Begins And Ends With Engagement
As a sales leader, Kurt Bilafer's professional life is filled with quotas, metrics and dashboards. But if the Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay had to pick just one thing he's optimizing for, it would be engagement.
Creating Brand Ambassadors From Within
Creating brand ambassadors from within your company will not only boost employee morale and get them excited about a re-brand, but it also works to engage clients and inform potential clients about the company’s new direction, insists Brandon Moxam, Director of Brand Development at U.S. Lawns.
How To Lose Email Subscribers In 10 Days Or Less
When deciding how to organically build your list, marketers go back and forth between the single or double opt-in methods. John Thies, CEO and co-founder of Email on Acid says they practice the double opt-in method in their lead generation efforts and it has worked well for them.
Five Small Innovations That Can Make A Big Difference In Your Company
An innovation can be a revamped business process or a tweak to a manufacturing technique or a change in the way you work with a supplier — as long as it adds to customer value, it counts, says Patrick Stroh, author of "Business Strategy: Plan, Execute, Win!" and "Advancing Innovation". He shares five small innovations that can make a big difference in your company.
What Do A Company’s Core Values Say About Its Culture?
There’s no one-size-fits-all solution to creating the right company culture. However, defining your values that will be the building blocks for your culture early on is integral to the future success of your company, particularly as it achieves new stages of growth, says Amy Zimmerman, Global Head of People at Kabbage.
4 Major Mistakes Established Companies Make
There are common, detrimental characteristics present in many established companies that seem to evolve over time — even though no one in these companies has set forth an explicit strategy or plan to create them. Steven D. Goldstein, author of “Why Are There Snowblowers in Miami?“ points out four major mistakes most traditional companies make.
Why Every Business Needs To Become A Platform, And How To Do It
Although on the surface these companies appear to have completely different business models, they all share one very powerful component: a scalable online platform connecting people and ecosystems. Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay says businesses can evolve to become a platform company by thinking about their business through these three lenses.
Money Management Tips For Virtual Assistants & Small Business Owners
Smart business owners know the importance of good money management and apply tactics in their business to actually help them. Diana Ennen and Kelly Poelker, co-authors of “Virtual Assistant, The Series: Become a Highly Successful, Sought After VA“ shares some tips to help.
Don’t Miss Your Window Of Opportunity
If you are looking for new opportunities to market your business, the answer may be right in front of you. Your store window opens a pathway to get your message to consumers on a daily basis and should be used as a promotional tool for your business, says Lea Schneider.