Yes, You Should Care Whether Your Employees Like You
Some leaders will say that they don’t care about being liked, but I can tell you from personal experience that making an effort to win over your employees, earn their trust, and make them happy can make a huge difference in your company.
Read More How Instagram Can Benefit Your Coffee Shop
Instagram is perhaps the most under-utilized social media platform, especially when it comes to restaurants, cafés and coffee shops. While Facebook and Twitter remain king for social media marketing, Instagram should not be taking a backseat. In fact, it should probably be sitting up front.
Read More How to Sell Your Business: What is the Best Exit Strategy for You?
As is usually the case when having a “what is the best” discussion, the honest answer is, “it depends.”
Read More Will Crowdfunding Replace Angel and VC Investors?
Even if you ignore all the hype around crowdfunding, there can be no doubt that it is a real alternative for entrepreneurs to achieve visibility and funding today.
Read More How to Automate and Scale Workflow Pipelines
People play an incredibly large part in every company’s workflow. However, us humans can be costly and hard to manage, which creates a challenge when scaling horizontally.
Read More 5 Keys for Creating an Effective Customer Survey
Many companies stray away from putting time and resources into creating customer surveys because they figure that they will get minimal feedback and major resistance from customers.
Read More 5 Ways Virtual Servers Will Boost Your Small Business
Even if it seems a rather novel technology, we’ve been switching to virtual servers for at least a decade now. Despite the continuing popularity of this solution, business owners are still reluctant to fully embrace it, believing that physical servers offer optimal levels of both security and efficiency.
Read More Incentives and Unintended Consequences
Incentives can be a mighty force in any organization. When properly structured, incentives can cleanly and clearly align the goals of the individual with that of the organization.
Read More Are You Getting the Most from Your VoIP Office Phone System?
Imagine having an expensive, high-tech smart phone and only using it to make calls, letting texting, email, internet connection, etc. That would be a huge waste of resources, right?
Read More How to Not Become a Labor Department Enforcement Target
Over the last couple of years the Department of Labor has become fairly aggressive in its enforcement of wage and hours laws. It has been targeting industries suspected of being the most egregious offenders and it is going at enforcement in such a public way as to create a “ripple effect.”
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