Andrew Heikkila

Andy Heikkila is a business owner, writer, and musician hailing from the lush Pacific NW. He enjoys running, drinking, and hanging out with his friends when he’s not working. Feel free to drop him a message on Twitter @AndyO_TheHammer.

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Simplifying the Recruitment Process Outline

Finding the right candidate to fill open any position is never easy. Hiring managers and executives around the world will tell you that spending hours combing through applications and interviewing potential additions to the team…

Modern Mentors: Navigating Mentorship in the Digital Age

Mentorship is as old as human society, perhaps even older. Before written communication, the only way information was passed down was from one person directly to another via speech and demonstration—monkey see, monkey do. However,…

Battling Burnout: How the World’s Hardest Workers Achieve Work-Life Balance

As technology has improved over the last decade, more people are finding that the traditional boundaries reserved typically for the workplace are eroding. We’re answering emails at home, taking calls that pull us away from…

5 Ways to Market Your Small Business Better

Did you know that two-thirds of SMB owners and leaders—a full 66 percent—are personally responsible for three or more of the following areas of their business: operations, finance, sales, marketing, human resources, customer service, product…

Follow These 4 Tips for Staying Motivated and Energized at Work

Coffee, energy drinks, and over-the-counter energy supplements—these morning perks are extremely important to some people. Waking up and heading to the office without them would be disastrous, to the point where it wouldn’t be worth…

Don’t Make These 3 Common Mistakes of New Business Owners

Many people dream of one day owning their own business and working for themselves. That’s basically the American Dream, right? Usually, the thought of never having to work for somebody else ever again is motivation…

3 Ways to Boost Healthy Initiatives in Your Office

Professional workplaces are where many of us spend the majority of our time—and yet, these offices can be unhealthy traps when it comes right down to it. Our dependence on technology and screens in almost…

How to Survive Automation: Upskill and Adapt to Change

If you haven’t already, you should definitely check out the CGP Grey video on YouTube titled “Humans Need Not Apply.” The “threat” of automation has people scared, worried that technological unemployment will reign supreme once…

The Death of Net Neutrality: What Does It Mean for Small Businesses?

Net neutrality is dead. The Obama administration’s 2015 net neutrality rules have been disputed for the past year or two but have finally been repealed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). These rules used to…

3 Reasons Your Small Business Might Benefit from Colocation

Today, a business is only as good as its IT infrastructure and team. Cybersecurity and data storage are huge topics of concern in today’s age, with the experts at DataGuard mentioning that “the cost as…