What Google (and You) Can Learn from Amazon
Amazon’s strategy and decision-making process starts (and perhaps ends) with improving the customer experience. Every important meeting, project, or initiative at Amazon begins with a discussion of how the ideas will ultimately benefit customers.
Read More Top 5 Business Video Conferencing Platforms of 2013
We have entered into the age of video communication, and almost every professional will agree, it’s a beautiful era! Less travel, less money, less time wasted during the traverse from meeting to meeting and best of all, a heightened level of communication and efficiency!
Read More What is a good program that you would recommend to maintain and keep up with the cost and inventory of materials, equipment, and supplies?
For software to handle your inventory, fixed assets and other accounting needs, we do not know the number of items and transactions you deal with; however, Sage 50 and QuickBooks are two of the most popular accounting software programs used by small businesses.
Leading By Example
What we, as leaders, do every day, how we behave, the things we get involved in, how we set priorities—our people watch, observe, and emulate. What we do always trumps what we say.
Read More 3 of My Marketing Pet Peeves I Hope You Don’t Do
Every once in a while, I notice things that companies, organizations, and individuals do online that can erode their brands. These boo-boos are easily corrected, so I thought I’d share three of them with you in the hopes that you’ll avoid them.
Read More How to Target Your Government Sales Activities
So you have decided you want to “get a piece” of the $6 trillion U.S. government agencies are spending each year. Now the more challenging question is: Where should you focus your sales / business-development activities to win some of this business?
Read More Protecting Your Data When Staff Leave
As with any business crisis, if you get a robust plan in place to deal with it before it happens, it can lessen the damage done. The same goes for planning what you need to do to protect company data when a staff member leaves.
Read More VIDEO: 80/20: Why Focusing on the 20 Isn’t Enough
We know that 80% of results come from just 20% of effort. The problem is that even though the 80/20 principle helps us be more productive at one thing, we forget to plan what to do with that extra 80% of energy.
Read More Metrics that Matter
Social media has the unfortunate side effect of making us focus on metrics that don’t matter. Of course, whatever you measure tends to improve (The Hawthorne Effect). So if you want more followers, then by all means, measure your follower count daily!
Read More Why Is It So Important to Prepare Financial Statements?
If you are wondering whether or not you really need to prepare financial statements when you already know your business is profitable, the answer is definitely yes. You may be convinced that your business is doing fine, but you will need proof for investors, creditors, shareholders, government agencies—and you will also…
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