6 Simple, Reliable Steps for Entrepreneurs to Relieve Stress
As an entrepreneur, you simply can’t avoid all of the stress triggers in your life. However, what you can do is learn how to deal with it. In order to avoid the many health problems associated with stress, here are some of the steps you can take to relieve yourself of it. Improve Your Sleeping…
Read MoreThe “Last Mile” in Selling
In the old days of telecom, the days when telecom was dominated by landlines, one of the most important strategies had to do with the “last mile.” (Actually, much of the conversation around net-neutrality is today’s version of the last mile.) The “last mile” was more figurative than literal, but it focused on who controlled…
Read MoreHow to Run a Productive Discovery Day
The term “Discovery Day” can be a bit misleading. While there is certainly an element of discovery in a prospective franchisee visiting your company and meeting stakeholders for the first time, Discovery Day is meant more to be the final step toward signing an agreement. You should go into it expecting to conclude with something…
Read More5 Financial Incentives of Going Green That Might Not Have Occurred to You
Look at practically every large corporation in the United States, and you can find some effort they have made to promote being and fighting climate change. Even businesses we often think of as being bad for the environment, like BP, proudly display their efforts to promote alternative, cleaner energy. Are all these business going green…
Read MoreCoping with Growing Pains: 5 Tips to Scale High-Growth Businesses
The majority of businesses in the recent FT 1000 list of Europe’s fastest growing companies are technology businesses. They may not all list as technology companies but certainly looking through the list – Deliveroo, Thermondo, Carwow and Smarkets, to name a few – most are built and operate on digital platforms or utilize digital technology…
Read MoreAvoid These 3 Bad Habits if You Don’t Want to Damage Your Business
There is a thin line between your image (in front of others) and the image of your business. Your business is a faceless entity; for that reason, when people think about choosing a service or a product, they choose mainly based on how much they like the people behind your services or products. When we…
Read MoreAre You Building a Community?
Last year, I spent a weekend with my daughter and her boyfriend at a Supernatural Convention in Chicago. If you’re not familiar with the TV show Supernatural it’s in its 13th season, largely due to the huge fan base that it has built and how vocal they are about the show and its very existence.…
Read MoreEntrepreneurs: Employment Law is Not on Your Side!
Small companies most often scrape by with borrowed or invested funds, doing everything possible to grow and prosper with limited resources. So, it is like a punch in the gut when an employee makes a claim against the company for a perceived or actual but unintentional violation of a law or regulation. Or when a…
Read More7 Ways to Find Current Business Trends for Your Online Store
Trends come and go. However, when you own an online store, knowing the latest trends is a must to succeed. The thing is, finding the latest trends can be challenging and, quite often, as soon as you locate the sources of those trending products, they’re no longer in demand. In this article, we’ll show you…
Read MoreWhy You Need to Upgrade Your Onboarding and How to Do It
See if you’ve ever had a first day at a new job that went something like this: You spend a half hour or hour with someone in HR, signing papers. The person gives you a company manual and may go over a few essential rules. You meet up with your supervisor and walk around greeting…
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