Why Small Businesses Need Payroll Software

As a business owner, you want to focus on what your employees can do for your business—rather than getting bogged down by the nitty-gritty of paying them. How often is your mind centered around administrative responsibilities like payroll? Have you ever incurred interest and penalties from payroll errors? When details, like income types and deductions…

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10 Tips on How to Protect a Software Idea

How to protect a software idea? I recently answered a related Quora question on this one. I took parts of this post from a previous post on how to protect an idea while building a business, but this one focuses more on software, specifically. That’s where I’ve spent most of my career, and still my favorite business, by…

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5 Types of Essential Software for Achieving Small Business Success

Today’s entrepreneurs have far more advantages than we had fifteen years ago. This is almost entirely due to technology. Anything that could require weeks to implement can be done in a few hours now, whether it is market research, ad campaign strategy, SEO, or content marketing. If you are starting your first business, all the…

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Review: Hiver’s Enhanced Email Collaboration Platform

This year, Gmail celebrates its fifteenth birthday and 1.5 billion people around the world are currently using the tool. Over 4 million businesses now use G Suite. Every business needs a way to delegate emails within teams, so team members can keep track of who is doing what. But there is no easy way for…

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Thinking About the End User Comes First

Jack Davies is a product design engineer who believes that passion combined with an understanding of how the end user will interact with the product is the key to successful design. Davies says bad design comes from not truly understanding—and only assuming—how people might use a product. Watch the video to learn more about this…

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How Top Software Teams Deal with Technical Debt

Software development teams can keep builds on budget and on task by reducing or eliminating technical debt. In a perfect world, developers would fix all known bugs with each iteration—but we all know that seldom happens. Often, each release begins a new phase where the team focuses on exciting feature development, often leaving clean-up work…

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7 Incredibly Simple Explainer Video Software for Beginners

There is an overwhelming demand for online videos these days, and this demand is going to surge quickly. The rise of the market is rapid, so much so that Cisco predicts around 82% of overall internet traffic to be video content. Image Source: Business Insiders The growing popularity for online videos has increased the demand…

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Serpstat Review: How Does This SEO Tool Stand Up?

Digital marketing teams are stuck together by the glue of their growing number of tools. From social media management to influencer marketing, SEO, and beyond, there is a tool for everything. But if you’re anything like me, every now and then you like to do an audit of your toolset… Maybe there is a better…

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