Being an independent retailer or small business owner can be both challenging and rewarding. As an entrepreneur, you create the vision for your brand and oversee all areas of your business. At face value, this all sounds great. However, any entrepreneur will tell you that it’s difficult to oversee every aspect of a business from daily operations and merchandising to ...

Recently, I had a conversation with a top executive at a well-known Fortune 1000 company. This executive admitted to me that, given a choice between hiring truly talented IT security professionals and “monkeys” – meaning cheap, low-level offshore IT personnel – he’d choose the monkeys. His rationale was that his company would not only save money by offshoring cyber security ...

When you’re first starting out as an entrepreneurs there is one trait shared by each and every businessperson on that path – budget. A budget dictates how your business will be run on the beginning, what promotions you will have, where your business will be located and in some cases what kind of products you will have. So without deep ...

After launching a start-up, your most pressing obligation is to get as many eyes on it as possible. If you are good at discovering and taking advantage of markets through clever uses of social media and the internet, that won’t be a problem. However if you need some tips, or even if you need a few new techniques, you’re in ...

For the successful small business owner, taking your idea abroad can seem a natural next step from domestic dominance. But setting up in another country isn’t always as easy as having a good product and a substantial sum of money. Here are five things you should think about before you pack your bags. Culture Foreign businesses often face the extra ...

Search Engine Optimization, known as SEO, is an essential tools in any small businesses arsenal. SEO is all about making sure your website and services are seen online ahead of competitors. It’s easy in theory, of course. Yet SEO isn’t about going down a list of rules and checking off some boxes. It’s a little more complicated than that. The strategies ...

No matter how you look at it, starting a business is hard. One of the hardest things you may ever have to do. There’s the business plan to think over, a name, government policies to consider, how it will affect your family, finances and the list rolls on from there. Some hardened entrepreneurs suggest spending a long time thinking about ...

When you think of some of the big entrepreneurs, you might get a bit jealous and wonder what you can do differently so that you can be equally as successful. There are all sorts of ways to start businesses and make money, but your mindset and daily habits can make a big difference. These are a few habits of successful ...

How to most efficiently work with remote talent is a question that daunts most experienced managers. After all, managers can’t monitor work on the go, there is is no one-on-one interaction; the employee is not immersed in the culture of the organization, and there are always concerns regarding employee motivation and personal relationship building. In spite of all of the challenges ...

As new solutions and technologies are released, boosting productivity and streamlining business processes, medical practices are finding more and more reasons to expand. Workflows are becoming more efficient, and clinics can leverage technological advances to allow them to handle more patients. The challenge comes in determining how to bring in those new patients to build the practice. Growing your patient ...