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Your 7-A-Day Diet For Business Fitness
Having robust, lean processes and implementing the right software solutions to manage these processes can help you improve your company’s performance, increase cost efficiency and get in great shape for the summer and beyond.
5 ‘P’s” For Your Social Media Marketing Success
by Jeremy Juhasz, social media strategist at EMSI Public Relations
Small businesses and nonprofits face a different set of circumstances when it comes to social media marketing...
Smarter Ways To Backup Your Data
Individuals and organisations often lose important documents because of accidental erasure, viruses, lost or stolen laptops or drive failure, whether from wear and tear or otherwise. Simon Whitford, Senior Regional Marketing Manager, Content Solutions Business, APAC, WD offers some useful tips and tricks to effectively backup your digital files.
BYOD Security Made Simple: Solutions To The Top Three Threats
While mobile technologies hold great promise as a productivity enhancer, they can also pose a significant risk to network and data security if companies fail to manage their use proactively. Omer Faiyaz, CEO of Remo Software highlights the top three threats – and how SMBs can mitigate the risks.
Risks To Real Estate Agents And How To Avoid Them
According to a recent study by Hiscox, 20 percent of real estate agents reported having a lawsuit filed against them. Hunter Hoffmann, Head of US Communications at Hiscox Insurance shares some common risks that real estate agents face, and how to protect against them.
12 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website
You’ve done all of the heavy lifting, and you’re nearly ready to launch (or relaunch) your website. Nikole Haiar, Director Marketing, Retail & Partner Services at Hostway Corporation recommends you double-check these 12 things before showing your website to the world.
Keep Logos And Color Scheme Simple For Brand Success
As far as it’s possible to make a definitive statement about how color and design should be applied in the service of brand communication, this is good advice: Keep it simple, says Mark Paraji, color manager at Widen Enterprises.
Curing CEO Disease: Six Tips For Getting Great Feedback
Dan Quiggle, author of "Lead Like Reagan: Strategies to Motivate, Communicate, and Inspire" , offers six strategies inspired by Reagan’s example to help business leaders fight and eradicate "CEO Disease" in their own organizations.
Website ROI: 5 eCommerce Design Tenets To Embrace
Ben Acheson highlights five design elements that might have take your e-commerce website to another level.
Starting A Business By Buying A Franchise
More and more aspiring entrepreneurs are realizing their dreams of starting a business through franchising. Brandon Moxam, director of brand development at U.S. Lawns shares his thoughts about getting a franchise as a way to start a business.
The Right Ingredients: SBA Loan Prep Steps
There are several challenges a small business faces when attempting to secure an SBA loan. Evan Singer of SmartBiz offers some tips for small business owners to help them prepare for the process.
Is CEO Disease Crippling Your Company? How To Diagnose And Treat It Before It’s Too...
Do your people proactively report to you with current, accurate information — whether it’s good or bad? If not, you may be suffering from “CEO Disease”, says author
Dan Quiggle.
10 Difficult Coworkers And How To Cope With Them
Geoffrey James, author of "Business Without the Bullsh*t: 49 Secrets and Shortcuts You Need to Know", identifies 10 of the most difficult coworkers so you know how to handle - or avoid - them.
Mastering Online Time – Fishing For Customers
Before picking a date for a promotion or event it’s important to understand how the various online resources at your disposal can work for your business, says Eric Groves, CEO and co-founder of Alignable.
15 Tips From Ronald Reagan For Communicating With Impact
"They called it the Reagan Revolution. Well, I’ll accept that, but for me it always seemed more like the great rediscovery, a rediscovery of our values and our common sense." — Ronald Reagan
Small Business Owners: Top Tips For How To Compete In A Digital World
7 out of 10 small business owners say time and cost restraints prohibit them from improving their online presence. Lance Brown, VP of Product Development at Huzzah Media, offers some ideas small business owners can do to get started.
10 Tips To Keep Customers Coming Back Through The Doors
Today, you need ways to keep customers coming in the door. Francois Bondiguel, Online Marketing Manager at VendHQ.com, shares 10 tips.
The Great Social Media Monitoring Debate
Employers are increasingly tracking how employees use social media, but when does the surveillance stop becoming business-minded and start becoming an invasion of privacy? Rob Wilson, CEO of Employco USA muses the situation.
How Efficient Communications Are Damaging Projects
While efficiency in communications is great for busy executives and companies, it is terrible for projects, especially when it comes to communicating about the project with others, says Russell Harley, veteran project manager and Director at PMO.
CIOs Are from Mars; CMOs Are from Venus: Seven Ways To Bridge The Great Divide
Infighting is nothing new in the corporate world, but in today’s marketplace it can be
especially damaging. And the rise of web commerce and social media has exacerbated the friction between two C-suite leaders in particular — CMOs and CIOs. Rich Karlgaard explains why their “Mars vs. Venus” rivalry matters and how companies can bridge the divide.
E-Learning: 7 Tips For Integrating Technology Into Workplace Training
For companies of all types — from restaurants and hotels to accounting and law firms — here are 7 tips from Anthony Lye, Chief Product Officer of Red Book Connect, for integrating technology into training.
How Can Employees Show Customers They Care? 11 Strategies To Operationalize Caring.
Caring about customers is one of the best ways to differentiate your business and gain long-term consumer loyalty. Jon Gordon, author of "The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All" shares 1 1 strategies employees can use to show customers (and each other) that they care.
CEO Kryptonite – What Savvy Company Leaders Avoid At All Costs
by Jim Alampi, founder of Alampi & Associates
Everyone knows that Superman’s sole weakness is a mineral called Kryptonite. If he came in contact with the substance it...
Build The Five Pillars Of “The Soft Edge” For A Powerful Competitive Advantage
To get ahead and stay there, a company must also master its “soft edge” — a powerful competitive advantage that is made up of five pillars, argues Rich Karlgaard, author of “The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success“.
6 Social Media Mistakes That Are Killing Your Marketing Campaign
Social media marketing is a hip and brilliant way to drive traffic to your business. But if you're using these platforms, Teddy Hunt says you should make sure you're not making any of these ghastly mistakes.
Why Smart Employers Care About Work/Life Balance — And How To Help Your People Find...
If you assume that creating a healthy work/life balance is your employees’ responsibility, Dr. Carmella Sebastian would like to encourage you to reconsider that position. When you take steps to help your people separate their personal and professional lives and reduce their overall stress, she says, everyone wins — including your company’s bottom line.
Nine Tools You Must Apply To Create Highly Successful Teams Over The Long Term
What makes a leader great? According to author of "Serve to Be Great" Matt Tenney, it might not be the qualities you think. Here, he explains why serving others is the distinguishing quality of an excellent leader and shares nine service-oriented strategies to help you take your team to unprecedented levels of success.
A Quick Guide To Providing Good Customer Service
If your customers aren’t happy, they won’t come back to you. Which means you need to prioritise customer satisfaction above all else, says Sean Blanks, marketing director of www.cartridgesave.co.uk.
Fighting Through The Pain: The 7 Pain Points Of Project Management
Managing a team, especially a remote team, requires a project manager to start developing an arsenal of management tools to help them cope with “7 Pain Points of Project Management” that all teams face. Fred Mouawad, founder and chairman at Taskworld, elaborates.
Is Employee Cynicism Killing Your Culture? Ten Strategic Ways to Re-Configure It Around Trust
Hipness, snark, and cynicism are hallmarks of modern culture. But what about your company’s culture? Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard says employee cynicism is a red flag signaling a serious dearth of trust—and explains what you can do to fix it.