Why Are NEC Phone Systems the Global Leader?
Running a business in today’s highly competitive market in the greater Houston, Texas and surrounding areas requires you to stay agile while paying attention to technology developments that can help your organization run more efficiently. Many Texas organizations have found that they can improve their bottom line and get more work out of their existing…
Read MoreBe a Leader Who Makes Employees Love Their Jobs
Well, okay, you can’t really force everyone to love their job, but you can certainly create a culture and environment that nurtures and supports your employees and gives them every reason to enjoy their work. Why should you care if they’re happy? It’s simple: Happy employees are good employees. Good employees are invested in your…
Read More3 Reasons Your Small Business Might Benefit from Colocation
Today, a business is only as good as its IT infrastructure and team. Cybersecurity and data storage are huge topics of concern in today’s age, with the experts at DataGuard mentioning that “the cost as well as overall volume of data breaches has continued to increase year over year for the past decade.” That statement…
Read MoreHow to Set Up LinkedIn Ads
After learning all about the different types of LinkedIn Ads, you’ve finally got the approval from your point of contact or your boss to start advertising on LinkedIn! Except you have one small problem … you’re not exactly sure what the ad specifications are and how to set up each of the ad types. Or, you…
Read MoreHow to Use Business Texting to Retain More Clients
Have you had trouble maintaining strong business relationships? Here’s a handy guide on how business texting can help you retain clients. Business texting has emerged as the heir apparent to traditional email marketing. Quite frankly, it’s about time. While email marketing still has social media beat in terms of control and building deeper engagement, it lacks the…
Read More3 Ways to Ease into Industrialized Construction (It Pays to Be Diligent)
“Industrialized” construction may not exactly sound fun to longtime contractors and builders who relish the craft aspects of their trade. But the adoption of industrial, prefabricated, and manufacturing techniques by construction firms is an emerging way to realize the efficiency gains so elusive in architecture, engineering, and construction while improving profitability, project quality, and even…
Read More5 Helpful Tips to Optimize Your Employee Schedule
An essential part of running any business is taking the time to schedule employees effectively. However, for many employers, the process is often disorganized, time consuming and in some cases, downright frustrating. Shift scheduling is often frustrating for your workers, too, since everyone wants a job with a flexible schedule. The good news is, there…
Read MoreHow to Do Keyword Research in 2018: A Quick Guide
SEO’s regularly emphasize the importance of keyword research, and for good reasons. Keyword research is quite possibly the most important stage in SEO, and I’ll explain why. On the Internet, people do not just magically stumble across your content, products or website. Instead, there is a much more logical reason as to why and how they found…
Read More7 Essential Crime Prevention Tips for Your Brick and Mortar Store
As much as we’d like to think bad things don’t happen to good people (and their businesses), that’s simply not the way the world works. Crime strikes both online businesses and brick-and-mortar establishments every day—small and large. Actually, it happens to small businesses more often than you’d think. About 24% of small business owners in…
Read MoreHow to Avoid Building a 20th Century Company in the 21st Century Economy
If you want to start an extremely profitable company today, it needs to be built around patents, trademarks, or customer loyalty to particular lifestyle. This is one of the points Martin Lowy makes in his excellent Seeking Alpha piece, The 2-Track Economy: Employers Versus Moat Builders. The “moat” he mentions in the title of the article…
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