7 Shortcuts That Can Kill a Startup Business
Starting a new business is not an informal process, and should never be treated like a hobby between friends. Unfortunately, as a startup advisor and angel investor, I’ve seen too many ventures with great potential get destroyed or set back by legal and other shortcuts that should never have been allowed to happen. The path…
Read MoreThe Best Ways to Invest in Your Employees
When you give a man a job, you are giving him the means to support himself and his family. But, when you give him training and education opportunities, you are also giving him hope that he can improve his life. This is how you make loyal, productive and improved employees for your company. Here are…
Read More4 Simple First Steps to Business Success
So you have taken the initial step: To make your business dreams, a reality. The next step would be to make your business stand out among the many new upcoming projects. Every project is the fruit of great hard work, effort, and creativity. So it is important that we market the project in an effective…
Read More5 Common Employee Concerns and How to Fix Them
When an employee isn’t happy at work, everyone is affected. Customers notice. Other team members pick up on the negativity. Ultimately, having an unhappy employee could lead to increased conflict and turnover—something every franchise owner tries to avoid. Here are five of the top employee concerns and how to fix them so they don’t hurt…
Read MoreHow Hard is Your Website Working?
Is your website working for you? Believe it or not, websites came into being in the mid-1990s. Only twenty years later what seemed like an oddity back then is mission critical today. For the first few years, many businesses were trying to understand why in the world they’d ever want a website. Today, it’s a…
Read More4 Simple Productivity Hacks for Your Business
Maximizing your company’s potential is something similar businesses all over the globe try to tackle on a daily basis. One of the ways you can maximize your potential and drive more revenue is to identify how your company can improve productivity within the work environment. Limited resources, time restrictions and financial barriers—these are just a…
Read MoreWhy You’ll Be Wearing Your Next Computer
Virtual reality is projected to become a $30 billion industry by 2020, making now a perfect time to get into the business of developing this technology. Already many of the major players in the tech world are delving into the virtual reality world, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t ample opportunities for small businesses to…
Read MoreMake Adequate Thinking Time a Priority
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought. ~Bernard Baruch Warren Buffet spends about 80% of his time thinking and reading. So many outstanding leaders spend time specific time thinking. Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL,…
Read MoreWhat’s Your Ask/Tell Ratio?
Whether you are a manager or a sales person, your Ask/Tell ratio is critical to your effectiveness. The Ask/Tell ratio is a simple concept; few people think about it. It’s simply the ratio of questions you ask, compared to the statements you make. Ideally, your Ask/Tell ratio is significantly over 1. That means you spend…
Read MoreHow to Avoid Breaking Employee Break Laws
All work and no play makes for… a zombie workforce. It’s pretty much common sense that everyone needs breaks. But what are employee break laws and how can you avoid getting into trouble? The Definitions of Rest and Meal Breaks The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) provides the following definitions (They also like to call them meal or rest…
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