How To Make the Sale
Everyone who works in sales has that one lead they just can’t close. Every lead has their own personality and needs, so it can be hard to meet those on the spot. These precise sales steps will ensure you have the means to tailor your approach to the personality of any...
Mental Health In the Workplace
Poor mental health can have a severe impact on your business. Even if you’re mentally well, your employees may be facing their own mental health struggles. Recent studies have shown that around 80% of adults with depression have difficulty with work, home, or social...
Balancing Work & Your Personal Life
Working on career goals and maintaining a balanced personal life is no easy task. More often than not, when you’re excelling in one area, the other suffers. But this doesn’t have to be the case. There are a few simple tricks you can utilize to improve your...
Business During Flu Season
During the holiday season, you’re bound to get sick one way or another. But prolonged illness can be detrimental to your business’s productivity. Here are two simple ways to maintain your company’s progress while you get better. Communication With Your Employees...
How to Avoid Unhealthy Holiday Habits
Regardless of where you reside in the United States, sickness seems almost unavoidable during the winter season. But when you’re an entrepreneur, even a minor distraction from your work can be devastating. To avoid missing any work days during one of the busiest times...
How to Avoid Holiday Shipping Nightmares
With everyone sending gifts and cards to loved ones, shipping during the holiday season can be a nightmare. Receiving materials late or having your consumers receive their products late puts strain on everyone. To ensure your business doesn’t falter during the...
How To Handle Corporate Gifting
During the holidays, we often find ourselves rushing to get our loved ones the perfect gifts, but what about our customers? A holiday gift is a great way to endear yourself to consumers, but finding the perfect present can be a real hassle. What is appropriate? What...
How To Boost Employee Productivity During The Holidays
Whether it’s your busiest time of year or your slowest, the holidays put a huge amount of stress on employees. These external factors can cause your employee’s productivity to plummet. Keeping employees engaged is daunting, but there are some unique ways to help your...
The Underlying Effects of Vacations
In business, it’s easy to get consumed with the daily needs of our company and neglect our well-being. This is amplified during the holidays, as we try to get everything our loved ones want and maximize our holiday marketing strategies. A great way to avoid holiday...
Make The Most of Your Holiday Marketing
As we’ve approached the holiday season, we’ve talked a lot about how to handle holiday marketing and if it’s right for your company. If you do decide to take part, there are a few unique ways to stand out amongst your peers. Live Video Event There is a growing...November Newsletter 2019
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Unique Ways To Protect Your Business
Growing your business is like raising a child; you have to nurture it, build it up, and protect it from outside forces. One of the best ways to protect your business is with insurance for your property or company vehicles. Scaling your business is no easy task, and...
What To Include In A Benefits Package?
As you scale your business, you’ll need the right team by your side. We’ve talked a lot about employee acquisition, but one key component in finding quality employees is offering good employee benefits. When considering what benefits to include in your...
Are Chatbots Right For Your Company?
While the technology of films like “I, Robot” and “Blade Runner” is far from becoming commonplace, some of their modern conveniences are quickly gaining traction. A study conducted by Juniper Research indicates that, by 2020, 80% of businesses will be using chatbots,...
Are Shipping Costs Keeping You Up at Night?
If e-commerce is a staple of your business model, shipping and handling costs can keep you up at night. For any business, especially an e-commerce-driven company, overpriced shipping could send profit margins plummeting. Take a t-shirt company, for example. The price...
Improve Employee Engagement With These 3 Tips
Employee engagement is one of the most important facets of a successful business, and there are stats to show for it: Highly engaged teams are 21% more profitable than their less engaged counterparts. And the best way to encourage employee engagement is through a...
Tax Season and Your Employees
At the beginning of every year, there are two critical numbers in tax-law provisions that are adjusted for inflation. The IRS and Social Security Administration usually release these figures in October. Unfortunately, at the time of writing this, these figures have...
How Do Facebook’s Privacy Policies Affect Your Marketing?
Facebook has recently experienced backlash regarding its privacy policies, and, as a result, their advertising tools will likely change soon to calm the tides. In a recent blog post, Mark Zuckerberg outlined his vision for the social media empire as a...
Top Cost-Cutting Measures
As we approach a new year, companies are looking for new ways to save money and properly budget. As a small business, it can be difficult to save money and grow at the same time. There are, however, some unique things you can implement to trim your operating budget....
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