Do You Know Your Territory?
When purchasing a franchise, it’s important to evaluate, understand, and negotiate the assigned territory; this is the area within which your location is protected by the franchise agreement. If you’re not mindful of the territory and terms of the agreement, you could potentially set yourself up for challenges down the road. Here’s what you need…
Read MoreGoing Hyper-Local: How Sponsoring an Event Like Goat Yoga or a Garlic Festival Can Grow Your Business
For businesses of every size, maintaining a good reputation and relationship among consumers is essential for growth, but that’s easier said than done. Consumers support or reject companies based on the positions they advocate; 87% buy based on values and 78% boycott based on values. While it’s impossible to please everyone, involvement with community action…
Read MoreHow to Avoid Compromising on Team Alignment with Your Remote Workforce
While the trend of remote workforces is growing larger by the day, many business leaders are unsatisfied with strategies that frequently compromise on business fundamentals to the detriment of their companies. Team alignment is one such issue; time and time again, managers and business owners see communication and alignment break down between teams, thanks to…
Read MoreWhen Was the Last Time You Talked About How You Talk?
For many brands, cloud adoption is well underway, leaving organizations facing a new complexity — learning how to work in a multi-cloud environment. If your brand is operating in this type of environment, there’s a good chance your telecommunications are fragmented. When cloud adoption first increased in popularity a little over a decade ago, many…
Read More9 Innovation Practices for Long-Term Business Health
A guiding principle for startup success, as well as the long-term health of a mature business, is a liberal dose of innovation at the beginning, with additions of the same on a regular basis. Unfortunately, innovation means change, and most business professionals and existing customers, by default, hate change. Thus without thinking, every company becomes…
Read More3 Tips from the Sports World for Creating a Winning Culture
You can learn a lot from failure. A few years ago, I remember reading about Sir Clive Woodward when he was head coach of the England rugby team and how they created a winning culture, culminating in a World Cup final victory in 2003. As he tried to mold a group of disparate players in…
Read More10 Types of Paperwork You’ll Need to Create for Your Business
Nobody likes to think about the paperwork and documentation necessary to run a business, but your company won’t get far without these practical necessities. Thankfully, for most types of paperwork, this is a one-time process; once you have a core template in place, it will only take a few minor modifications to make it work…
Read More5 Steps to Better Invoicing and a Smart Payment Process
To make payroll, you need money in the bank… Which makes effective invoicing is a must. Let me ask you this: Do your customers pay you in a timely fashion? If not, cash flow can become critical, making it impossible to grow your business. That’s why, for your business to succeed, you need a sound…
Read MoreImportant Things to Do BEFORE Designing Your Website
Your website is the most important marketing real estate your small-medium business or nonprofit organization has. It’s the number one location for hosting content and engaging target audiences. What studies tell us: The first impression users have of a website are as much as 94% design-related. Northumbria and Sheffield Universities 75% of user judgment about your…
Read MoreMake Achieving Your Goals a Team Sport. Here’s Why—and How
A person’s success isn’t the result of superhuman feats. It’s the outcome of doing the things anyone can do—though most of us just don’t. Usain Bolt, the Jamaican sprinter and eight-time Olympic gold medalist, observed: “I’ve learned something through the ranks that there’s a ladder, but no one wants to climb the ladder. They just…
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