Productivity

Behind every successful business, there’s a strong team that has overcome various struggles. It takes great leadership and an effective company culture to build such a team.  To build a great team, you’ve got to pay attention to various details that start right from the hiring stage. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners on tips they use to build a strong ...

To stand out from your competitors, you have to be innovative. Being innovative will not only boost your keep you ahead but it will also ensure you develop a refreshed team spirit. Innovativeness is boosted through collaboration with employees of the company and embracing new ideas as they come. It’s a common scenario to find companies investing time and resources ...

While you wear many hats as an entrepreneur, setting boundaries can save you time and safeguard your personal life from sinking into everything business. It also allows you time to think how you can grow the business. However, setting boundaries during the initial phase of a business can be challenging since your main focus is building a client base and ...

When you are at the starting point of your business, the number of tasks and daily items you have to cover on a daily basis quickly become overwhelming. Your first thought is usually to hire on some help, but without a clear-cut project management plan you’ll probably wind up hiring an expensive paper weight. Many entrepreneurs either wind up spending a ...

While direct mail is now often seen as a dated way to communicate, especially when used as a marketing strategy, there are still plenty of reasons why marketers still use it. There’s great potential in the strategy, you just have to learn how to master the tricks of the trade. Traditional methods are not gone for good; they’ve just been ...

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 ...

Franchising is one of the central parts of the American economy, a lot of business and jobs that were created after the great recession is as a result of franchises. In America, franchising business is still very popular and famous especially in the small business in the country. The franchising sector has experienced tremendous growth concerning its volume and ubiquity; ...

You’ve heard of exit interviews, conducted before an employee leaves an organization. If you aren’t as familiar with stay interviews, it’s time for that to change. Stay interviews help managers learn how to keep their employees happy. Ultimately, they can facilitate a more harmonious and productive work environment, while reducing employee turnover rates. So what exactly is a stay interview? ...

According to a PEW Research Center report, 72 percent of internet users said that they look online for health information. But to convert that into calls, it requires a firm to do more than just set up a website. Healthcare firms need to establish a bigger online web presence, but healthcare marketing alone can get extremely competitive. Here are a ...

Since the industrial revolution, there has been a debate going on that how automation will lead to mass unemployment and bring about chaos for everyone involved but technology has created jobs of different kinds if it has gobbled up on the need for human labor in one field of operations. Automation almost always results in increasing production while decreasing operating ...