Thinking Aloud
Green Chile Burgers: A Recipe For Success
Bruce Hodes recounts how a visit to a dilapidated burger joint in New Mexico shows how great customer service can be delivered in a way that attracts a loyal fan base.
Working Toward Work-Life Balance
A terrific thing about being tired and less-than-enthusiastic is it is completely reversible. While taking a long trip might be great, it isn’t always doable. However, there are a number of small ways to reset your batteries and be ready to charge forward again.
Global Smart Cities Is What’s Trending
A smart city is a city that is integrating information and communication technology (ICT) with local facilities to increase the standard of living in its locality.
Building A Diverse Workforce
There’s no better way to reflect the world we live through your company in than by ensuring that you employ a diverse range of staff. If hiring for diversity hasn’t been on your radar yet, Michelle Stedman, Vice President of Operations and Talent Management Strategist of BirdDogHR insists it’s your responsibility to bring people of all backgrounds into the fold.
Free Ways To Use Pokémon GO To Increase Local Business Visibility
How can you utilize Pokémon GO to boost business? Here are a few ways without any in-app purchases:
Technological Infrastructure Revolution – Modern Metropolises Require Modern Infrastructure
As society develops economically, there are levels of technological development that naturally permeate progress.
5 Ways To Simplify Your Day And Get More Done
The truth is that creating and using reminders is an art — and doing it well is the key to simplifying and empowering your day. Johan Gunnars, CEO and cofounder of Simpliday shares 5 ways to get more out of every reminder you make.
What It Means To Be A Professional
What is the difference between a professional and an amateur attitude? What does it actually mean to be a professional in any area? Vadim Kondratiev, Head of Sales at Anadea Inc looks at the issue from the viewpoint of project management.
Digital Marketing Made Human
The more you can make your digital marketing lifelike, the more you’ll be able to reasonably build trust that can lead to more sales in the future. Nick Maglosky, CEO of ecomdash, shares three ways you can pull it off.
Organization And Storage Are The Keys To Delegation
Confused storage and disorganization make it difficult to direct employees to go and do a task. In order to make delegation work, Lea Schneider shares six organizational keys every business owner and manager needs to know.
Top 3 Ways To Own The Boss Role
Some people are born leaders, but even for those with innate leadership skills, making the transition from employee to boss takes planning and effort. Arvind Parthiban, CEO of Zarget what he's learned along the way about becoming the boss.
Ditch Your Old Marketing Tactic And Invest In Social-Word-of-Mouth-Marketing
How do you increase trust in your company? If your company has any users, customers or employees the perception of your company isn’t in your hands, it’s in theirs, says Jeff Ernst, CEO and President at Smync.
Life Audit: 4 Ways To Reprogram Your Life
Thinking success comes at a steep price constricts aspiration before it starts. By remaining goal-oriented and career-driven, you can easily have the future you want, insists David Osborn.
3 Simple Ways Productivity Leads To Your Best Self
Improving your productivity is a simple place to begin — and with World Productivity Day upon us, there’s no better time than now to start discovering your best self! Johan Gunnars, CEO and cofounder of Simpliday shares 3 ways to do it.
Faster, Smaller, Cheaper: A Time Of Great Change (Or Not)?
We are not today living in a period of rapid change, but we may be in the near future. Are our businesses ready, or will they end up like the buggy whip manufacturer’s after the car replaced the horse-drawn wagon, asks Jim Dewald, author of "Achieving Longevity: How Great Firms Prosper Through Entrepreneurial Thinking" .
Health And Wellness Benefits At Work Are Expanding
Not only are these health and wellness programs a hallmark of the current-day office, they’re also becoming a valuable and expected benefit – and for good reason, says Andy Meyer, CEO of Financial Fitness Group.
Are Freelancers Right For Your Business?
More and more businesses are recognising the potential for increased productivity and up-skilling that comes from engaging freelancers. But is this the right move for growing your business? Ian Cowley, managing director, cartridgesave.co.uk shares some of the main benefits that hiring freelancers could bring to your growing business, plus some things to bear in mind for making the arrangement a win-win scenario.
Maximizing The Value Of Your e-Commerce Business
Men and women throughout the business world have been capitalizing on this emerging e-commerce and creating new patterns of buying and selling a small business in the process. Now that these patterns have become more ingrained and reliable, Jock Purtle says we should take a look at what to do and what not to do in order to sell your e-commerce business for the highest possible price.
Comparing Apples With Apples
All those features and functions, bells and whistles that you have lovingly created and perfected, those gorgeous PowerPoint slides, glossy brochures and slick sales presentations. People just don’t care that much. But they do care about you, your team, what makes you tick, says Cian McLoughlin, author of "Rebirth of the Salesman".
Schroders: Leicester City’s Premier League Triumph And Retirement Investment
Leicester City has surprised everyone by clinching the English Premier League title but what do the club’s fortunes reveal about behavioural psychology and how does that relate to investing, especially for retirement?
4 Startup Lessons I Learned From ‘SimCity’
Playing simulation and strategy games like this while growing up taught Zach Ferres a lot about planning and resource management. As a retired gamer and not-so-retired entrepreneur, the CEO of Coplex shares some lessons he's learned playing SimCity that helped him create a successful startup.
Every Woman Needs To Feel Empowered
An empowered woman seeks out her passions and purpose, serves her community as a leader and role model and her self-care is a main priority, says Cheryl Wood, CEO of Personal Power Enterprises and author of "The Glamourless Side of Entrepreneurship".
Beyond the .COM! New Domain Names Are Perfect For SMBs And Startups
With the recent release of hundreds of alternatives to .COM, entrepreneurs are increasingly welcoming the opportunity to choose the name they want and register a fantastic domain — or several — for their new business. Taryn Naidu, CEO of Rightside shares his views.
What Social Media Needs To Do To Better Pique Your Interest
A number of interest driven social networks are building smarter tools to gain deeper insights about you and what you actually like, showing the bigger guys how this can be done. So, what are the interest driven platforms doing, and what could this mean for the future of social media? Russell Cowdrey, CEO and co-founder of Plum, explores.
Democratizing IoT Hardware Innovation For Startups – A Radical Approach To A Practical Problem
Analysts forecast that 6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016. We’re living in a new era, where the possibility for IoT devices has reached stratospheric heights - and this is just the beginning, says Jeffery Kang, CEO and founder of IngDan.
Bulls On Wall Street
You hear messages like this repeated often: ‘friends and business don’t mix’, ‘money can ruin friendship’, ‘it’s not personal, it’s business.’ But, business is personal – it’s comprised of people! People always look at the disadvantages, but there are amazing advantages to working with your friends, says Kunal Desai, the founder and CEO of Bulls on Wall Street.
6 Things I’m Learning From Millennials
Daily interactions with colleagues, friends, customers, and job candidates are constantly shaking loose many of the preconceived notions Nick Goode has about working with millennials. Here are six things the VP of Cloud Product Management at Sage One is learning.
Fad, Shmad. New Domain Extensions Like .FAMILY Are Here To Stay.
Many companies are hesitant to take advantage of the new opportunity created by new domain extensions, often because they are unaware of their existence or are still unclear of the value they can deliver to businesses and individuals alike. Bill Glenn, Vice President of Marketing at Rightside looks at the issue.
Creating A Brand That’s Different
It’s now harder than ever for brands to be unique, and it’s not just because of our lack of innovation. If you are an entrepreneur, this means you have to rethink what “special” really means, says Yali Saar, CEO and co-founder of Tailor Brands.
3 Hacks That Made Me Happier At Work
Many people want flexibility and a sense of purpose more than they want short work hours and excess benefits. Connor Provines, operations director at Share Your Office, shares a few practical, actionable tips he implemented into his daily schedule that helped him integrate work into life.