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First Hire for Your Startup or New Business
Who is the right candidate? Finding the perfect candidate for a new business is a difficult task and will often times take a good deal of trial and error. For a startup, hiring the right…
Can Quora Act as a Source of Clients for Your Business?
I read through a lot of blogs and forums of an evening. I often find inspiration and motivation from other people’s success stories. I discovered a number of people discuss that they recommended Quora as…
5 Proven Tactics to Welcome New Employees
Those few weeks in the beginning, when the employee first joins (how she is welcomed by her seniors, befriended by her colleagues, the training she gets etc.), decide how she will conduct herself around colleagues…
5 Essential Services to Hire for Your New Office Building
Whether it is for a new startup or because the business has outgrown the previous location, moving into a new office building is a fun new adventure for business owners. There are, however, steps that…
School of Thought: Why 6 Best Business Practices Work
Companies succeed for many reasons. They create products that are in high demand or find niches that have more customers or need more new ideas. But while the causes for initial successes may vary, it’s…
The Difficult Path to Success for Millennial Women Entrepreneurs
Women entrepreneurs face many challenges when it comes to achieving success. Apart from the obstacles any entrepreneur must overcome, unfortunately, gender biases are still in place to a large extent. Add to this the skepticism…
Startup Off the Ground? 5 Things You’ll Need as Your Business Grows
Too often startups launch with a powerful idea or innovative product but have a limited growth plan or clear exit strategy. The following includes five things you’ll need to keep in mind as your business…
How the 2016 Overtime Rule Affects Small Businesses
As a small business owner, your largest overhead component, 70% on average, is labor. You might have assumed that, within the bounds of things like the minimum wage, you’re essentially free as a small businessperson…
How Far Can You Niche Down and Still Have a Viable Audience?
When I was thinking of starting a new internet marketing agency, I was considering different passions I had. One of those is technology, and more specifically the very latest in technological developments. I decided that…
4 Steps to Skyrocket Your Outbound Sales Call Closing Rate
Sales representatives are classic workhorses for businesses who want to skyrocket their sales or generate leads. We know this to be true since according to Discover.org, “78% of decision makers polled have taken an appointment…