How do I set up an internship program for students to receive credit for school and gain the experience they need before entering the actual work place?
Workers engaged as interns can be paid or unpaid, but our response assumes that your question refers to engaging workers as unpaid interns. In order to engage workers as unpaid interns rather than employees, a business generally has to establish an internship program that takes advantage of the trainee exception to the minimum wage and overtime requirements under the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act, or FLSA, which isn’t possible for every small business.
Don’t Neglect Your Offline Marketing
As business owners, we have to consider all marketing strategies that can earn us new business in creative ways. Far too often, business owners will stick to old methods that may be dying, or throw money at new channels that they don’t fully understand.
Read More 10 Tips for Setting Rules and Guidelines for Your Interns
Your experience with interns can be a positive one if you provide excellent guidelines and training. Even if you are not able to eventually offer them a permanent position, your role as their corporate mentor and possible reference is invaluable to their future success in their chosen field.
Read More 10 Entrepreneur Milestones That Make Funding Easy
Every investor expects to see some business traction, both before and after a funding event. If you have been working 20 hours a day, and spent your last dollar, but have no results to show, investors will be sympathetic, but will probably tell you that your dream doesn’t have wheels. Traction means forward progress.
Read More Setting Bold List-Building Goals (and 3 Lessons Learned Along the Way)
There are different types of motivators that work for different people. For some, just an inner knowing that they want to achieve something is necessary for them to take action and make it happen. For others, no matter how good their intentions are, if they aren’t being held accountable by an outside force, they’ll continue to avoid doing it.
Read More The Customer’s Taste Buds Are Always Right
When I tasted the Greenwich Pizza “Garden Delight” in the Philippines, my taste buds got a shock! The pizza was covered with sweet tomato sauce and the cheese on top was cheddar.
Read More Sharing is Caring: 6 Ways to Get Readers to Share Your Blog Posts
Most of you understand the importance of the company blog in your inbound marketing toolbox. You’ve prepared an editorial calendar, and routinely post content to your blog. Then you wait. And wait.
Read More “Is There Anyone Else We Should Be Talking To?”
Sometimes we become so task focused, we lose site of the bigger picture and what we could be doing. And we forget something critical, we forget to ask, “Is there anyone else we should be talking to?”
Read More My 5-year old desktop pc appears to be getting slower and my budget is limited, should I be looking at a replacement pc or possibly a server for remote access?
5 years is well beyond the useful life of a typical PC. We suggest it is time to upgrade. If you travel, we would suggest you consider a laptop. In addition to the weight and cost, you should make a list of features that you want and compare various laptops.
The Secret of Selling Need Not Be a Secret
I’ve often said that, at it’s very essence, selling was about finding out what people wanted, and simply helping them to get it. When you see selling in that light, it’s so much easier and more fulfilling.
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