Professionalisms
5 Tips Guaranteed To Establish Your Personal Brand
In business, your reputation is everything. Brian C. Haggerty, founder of Brian Haggerty Speaks and author of "Put That Cell Phone Down and Look Me In The Eye", offers five very simple steps you can take to help establish that powerful brand that will make people come back to do business with you over and over.
Five Ogres And An Angel: Guarding The Gates Of Organizational Improvement
Who are the ogres guarding the gates organizational improvement? By “ogre” we are referring to obstacles.
Simple Tips To Look After Customers Effectively And Grow The Business
It can be a struggle initially to attract new customers to your organization, but once you have done this, how do you keep them? Keith Tully, a partner at business rescue specialists Real Business Rescue shares a few tips.
Why Organisations Must Take Ownership Of BYOD Security
Mobile device security must not be left solely in the hands of the employees, argues Sanjay Castelino, VP and market leader of SolarWinds.
6 Tips For Managing Remote Employees
If you run a business and have employees who work remotely, Morgan Sims offers six tips on how you can manage them effectively.
Five Rules for Making Products That Sell Themselves
It’s time for B2B suppliers to stop running scared and get serious about innovation, says Dan Adams. Just make sure you ask before you innovate.
Why Your LinkedIn Profile Can Make The Difference in Your Job Search
LinkedIn is quickly becoming a job-search must, but many users haven’t quite figured out how to maximize the social network. Social media strategy consultant Neal Schaffer shares his LinkedIn profile “must-haves” to help you make connections — and set up interviews.
Dot.com-ing Your Business: Eight Elements Of A Successful Online Marketing Plan
Many small business owners know that they should develop an online presence, but they’re unsure of what to do and where to start. Annie Tsai breaks this process down into eight understandable — and doable — elements.
4 Questions Entrepreneurs Can Challenge Themselves With To Grow Their Business
Jeffrey Kadlic, co-founder & managing partner of Evolution Capital Partners shares four questions entrepreneurs can constantly be asking themselves to set their organizations up for significant growth.
Nine Risks You Must Take (And Keep On Taking) To Build A Sustainable Business
Often, entrepreneurs try to avoid risk because they want to protect their businesses from harm. Unfortunately, says Tom Panaggio, lose your willingness to risk and you also lose your edge. He explains why risk is NOT a “one leap and you’re done” proposition.
Eight Tips to Help Small Businesses Get Serious About Reaching Connected Consumers
Annie Tsai, author of "The Small Business Online Marketing Handbook", explains why all small businesses need to create a thoughtfully crafted online presence and offers eight strategies to help them get started.
Technology Backlash? Good Old-Fashioned Business Success Comes With Personal Touch.
Joanne Black, author of "No More Cold Calling" says that one of the biggest problems sales people face with social media and technology is the lack of real, meaningful contact and communication. She offers some ideas on how to deal with this.
6 Reasons Your Startup Needs A Chief Marketing Officer
Marketing is an important element of a young and ambitious startup company, especially if it stands a chance to succeed beyond its adolescent years. Having a chief marketing officer will sharpen and define your marketing strategy, argues Morgan Sims.
5 Tips On How Your Business Can Have A More Successful Event
Marketing well at a niche business event can be incredibly beneficial to the overall business development efforts of your company. Jen Hawkins, Director of Marketing at DoubleDutch offers five tips that can help bring in the crowd that you want in order to boost sales and meet your marketing goals.
How To Properly Plan For Technology Projects
Too often, IT firms focus on creating a solution before understanding the problem. Here’s a five-point checklist from Julie May, CEO of bytes of knowledge (b:ok), to start your next technology project off on the right foot.
Eleven Essential Components Of A Successful Social Media Strategy
Author of "Maximize Your Social" Neal Schaffer (@NealSchaffer) shares eleven essential components your company’s social media strategy should include.
Beyond the Business Plan: “Lucky” 13 Essentials You Won’t Learn In Business School
Here are 13 foundational habits from Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey, authors of "The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built a Bestseller", that (along with a healthy work ethic) will help you to become successful as an entrepreneur.
Ten Ways To Lose A Deal
When you’re seeking venture capital, some mistakes, more than others, can cost you the deal. Here are ten of the most damaging mistakes you can make and tell you how to avoid them from Nicole Gravagna and Peter K. Adams, authors of "Venture Capital For Dummies®".
3 Ways To Brand Your Startup Using Social Media
Start-up companies have much work to do to make meaningful social network connections. Read on to discover how to foster these bonds and brand your business online.
When Not To Grow Your Business
The pursuit of growth is no longer just a strategy; it seems necessary to most founders. Our lust for growth, however, comes at a cost. Here are some guidelines from Steve Musick, CEO of Destiny Capital for maximizing growth and sustainability without sacrificing your business in the process.
How Startups Can Benefit From Cloud Accounting
Sam Michaels, founder and managing editor of Cloud Accounting Today gives a few reasons why your startup should utilize cloud accounting software.
How To Be More Persuasive On Your Website
Social persuasion isn’t new, but making social persuasion a part of the very way a website is designed is a more recent idea. Kurt Smith suggests ways to make your website more persuasive.
Legal Issues Behind Running A Small Business
To make sure you don’t encounter any nasty surprises, here are the common legal issues behind running a small business you should be familiar with.
5 Core Values For The Workplace
There are many fine values, such as courtesy, confidence, ingenuity, thrift, and so on. Robert L. Dilenschneider, author of "A Briefing for Leaders: Communication As the Ultimate Exercise of Power" suggests five practical values that have foremost importance.
How SMBs And Startups Can Utilize The Cloud To Increase Their Bottom Line
Cloud computing offers many compelling advantages that can be game-changers. Mitch Wainer of DigitalOcean shares why.
5 Ways To Ensure Your Employees Never Miss Another Deadline
Here are a few simple ways to set your employees up for success, and give yourself more time to be a boss, and not a micromanager.
Five Ways For A Startup To Secure And Keep A Big Client
For a startup, sustained revenue is of paramount importance: a paucity of sales in one month could lead to bankruptcy the next. Scott Tarlow, CEO of Success Systems offers some advice for small business owners to catch – and keep – their first “big fish.”
A Very Keyne Way To Set Goals
Bruce Hodes, author of "Front Line Heroes" shares a goal setting process is powerful, useful and will also support you in having a productive and performance oriented organization.
How To Deal With Idea Killers Who Sabotage Your Company’s Best Thinking
Group brainstorming is a collaborative idea generation process that (theoretically) gets great results. Yet it takes only a couple of bad seeds to turn these sessions into unpleasant and unproductive nightmares. Mitchell Rigie and Keith Harmeyer, coauthors of 'SmartStorming', identify the most common offenders and pinpoint effective ways to handle them.
Eight Accounting Tips For The Aspiring Entrepreneur
Behind every successful entrepreneur is an excellent accountant - a natural number cruncher carrying a passion for payroll. Mark James of UK-based accounting firm Crunch offers eight accounting tips to help aspiring entrepreneurs.