Is Pain Your Path to Success?
As a child I struggled to breathe. For days I would lie in bed and fight for every inch of breath. I almost thought of it as normal. Waking up and trying to drag air into my lungs for hours. Nights were long with no end in sight. Asthma wasn’t considered such a big deal…
Read MoreYour Customers Are Telling You, “WIW WIW WIW!”
Customer empowerment is moving so fast nowadays that many of us are running to just catch up. Yet if we don’t or can’t, it is a sure thing that someone else will. Blame the Internet for this rise in customer expectations. But don’t close your eyes to the fact that your customers have grown to…
Read MoreTried and True Techniques of Public Speaking
Almost every day you will see someone giving a speech on TV, or you may even attend a conference and witness some of these great speakers first hand. The one thing they all appear to have in common is that they can speak to large audiences effortlessly and are usually mesmerizing. However, if you talk…
Read MoreWhat to Do When Your Business Gets a Bad Review
With the evolution of multiple online review opportunities, the power balance between businesses and their customers has shifted. Customers now have the final word, and often their comments show up front and center when someone searches for a business. Websites like Yelp even have mobile apps that allow users to leave reviews instantly, while they’re still at the…
Read More4 Human Resources Headaches to Approach with Caution
Human Resources (HR) professionals play a critical role in keeping companies legally compliant with state and federal regulations. Being an HR professional means addressing difficult problems that must be carefully handled and resolved. Hiring Discrimination Claims HR professionals must oversee the entire hiring process. This means that they must post job ads and review resumes…
Read More4 Features Your Small Business Phone System Needs for 2016
Sometimes, small business owners don’t think that they deserve the best tech. You might think that only large organizations need cutting-edge technology. Or you might have limited resources that you can spend on updating your technology. Here’s what we think: your business needs updated phone systems. You deserve it. To really compete in the market,…
Read More5 Ways to Vastly Improve Your Chances of Getting a Loan
To say that finding the right funding is important to the prospects of small businesses would certainly be something of an understatement. It can, in fact, be the crucial factor determining whether or not an SME is able to find the traction it needs to develop towards sustainability. So how can you improve your chances…
Read More8 Practices to Promote Urgency within Your Startup
The business world is changing ever more rapidly these days. If you see a need or a big opportunity but don’t act fast enough, the opportunity will pass or a competitor will get there before you do. Customers and opportunities don’t wait. If your startup culture doesn’t include a sense of urgency, your probabilities of…
Read MoreWhat’s Wrong with Business Networking
I’m starting to realize I hate the word “networking” used as a verb, meaning—apparently—some variation on connections with people for self-serving business use. Business networking my [whatever]. I’m pretty sure people are actual living breathing human beings, for the most part. Not nodes. Not assets. Not resources to be tapped later for favors. Real connections with…
Read MoreHow Much Should You Pay Your Creative or Tech Professional?
Digital Creative Marketing Professionals are in a class of careers that didn’t really exist a decade ago. Sure, the internet was around, but there wasn’t really much in the way of social media and most businesses hadn’t yet realized the value of existing in the digital space. Now it seems as though there are more…
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