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3 Ways Wearable Tech Improves Online Shopping

Shoes that provide directions to your destination, trousers that generate enough kinetic energy to charge your phone, a shirt that functions as a hard drive…

A Quick Guide to Website Personalization

The recent advances in the field have now made it possible for almost any marketer to successfully deploy personalized web content, which makes generic content an outdated trend.

How Can Your Startup Use the “Bakery Model”?

We’ve all been there. You start talking about creating your own business and the ideas start flying out of your mouth. The problem with that is moving forward and getting those ideas to become something a bit more substantial.

Learn to Negotiate in 7 Easy Steps

Avoiding negotiations is not a very smart way of conducting a successful business. In fact, in today’s competitive business environment it’s almost impossible to avoid negotiation.

6 Indispensable IT Professionals for Your Business

An IT (information technology) professional is a necessity this day and age in order for a business to function on a relevant and critical level.

Invoice Factoring: Easy Startup for Employment Agencies

Agencies that are just starting out are particularly vulnerable to cash flow problems. Not only do they have a smaller clientele and little to no surplus money, but they also have extra costs such as the need for rigorous advertising to spread their name.

How Colors Affect Your Branding

Visuals play a key role in branding. Individuals observe colors before taking in any other information from their surroundings. Thus, colors create a compelling impression on the minds of the people.

Using Social Media to Recruit

Social media has become an integral part of business; not only is it a place to advertise and from which you can reach and interact with customers, but it is also increasingly a recruitment tool.

Growing a Business with the Cloud

Before the cloud came, starting a business was a risky move—you needed to do extensive market research and invest a considerable amount of money in infrastructure alone, and if you happened to get your research wrong, or business simply didn’t go the way you planned, bankruptcy was almost imminent.

Inside the Top Startup Factories

Increasingly, instead of just starting a new company, talented entrepreneurs and company founders are launching a new style of business that some are calling “parallel entrepreneurship” or “startup factories.”