Bridging the Gap Between Family and Work

Bridging the Gap Between Family and Work

The work-life balance is a delicate thing. It can sometimes feel like putting more effort into one takes away from the other, but it doesn’t have to be that way. If we took as much time to plan as we did to worry, we wouldn’t have anything to worry about in the first...
Tips for Finagling Your Business’ Finances

Tips for Finagling Your Business’ Finances

Proactively gauging how well you’re handling your company’s finances will help in the prevention of costly errors. Finance is the alpha and omega of any business: No matter how pure your intentions are for your venture, none of the good you do would be possible...
Higher Quality Hiring

Higher Quality Hiring

What to Keep in Mind When Bringing on Employees Very, very seldom are successful businesses run by one person. It’s just not practical. While many of the companies you admire — or even your own business — started in garages or spare bedrooms or on rundown personal...
Taking Advantage of Social Media

Taking Advantage of Social Media

Social media can warrant all sorts of well-deserved reactions, and personal perceptions. Social media seemed to show up overnight and before anyone realized, it was ruling the world. Only recently have colleges and universities begin to offer Social Media majors, as...
Getting The Most Out of Your eCommerce

Getting The Most Out of Your eCommerce

Commerce has gone digital; there’s no way around it. Long gone are the days when specialty shops lined our towns’ main streets, and gone with them are the mom and pop stores that used to pepper the corners of our avenues. In their stead, a near-infinite hail of...
Successful Startups

Successful Startups

Starting a Business Isn’t Always About What You Do, but What You Give Starting an innovative business isn’t all paperwork and careful planning. Inception begins with a moment of inspiration. Maybe your new business venture launched the moment you got fed up with...
Technology Doesn’t Have to be Confusing

Technology Doesn’t Have to be Confusing

Buying the right IT programs can be a pain – where does one even begin to look, and how can you know if you’re buying the right program for you and your business? Cue Trapp Technology. Trapp works with their customers to simplify technology requirements by...
Mastering the Domain of Content Marketing

Mastering the Domain of Content Marketing

The Know-How to Pull in an Audience with Creative Content Why You Should be Creating and Publishing Content for Your Audience   The umbrella of content marketing encompasses many aspects of creative advertising, all of which you should utilize to better reach...
Entrepreneurial Coaching Masters

Entrepreneurial Coaching Masters

Why Having a Coach in Your Corner Gives you the Upper Hand The road the entrepreneur walks can be a lonely one, especially when you’re just starting out. As with anything that requires you to stick your neck out to follow a dream, it can often be confusing, especially...
Hitting the Social Media Marketplace for all it’s Worth

Hitting the Social Media Marketplace for all it’s Worth

Social Media, Marketing Lore, and You Learning What Social Media Can do for You In the digital age, you’d be hard-pressed to find a logical reason to ignore the potential of social media. Its influence is everywhere we turn; its scope stretching out from third-world...
You Need A Hoop!

You Need A Hoop!

If you don’t have goals, you probably won’t play People sometimes ask, ”Why do I need goals?” The answer would be obvious if you were a spectator at this imaginary basketball game – the last of a championship series. Both teams were fighting-fit. You could see...
Creating a Business Budget

Creating a Business Budget

Creating a budget for your business can be one of the most frustrating and frightening aspects about starting a new business. Not only are you putting part of your personal budget toward your business; the business requires a completely separate budget of its own...
Bad Business Habits to Stop NOW

Bad Business Habits to Stop NOW

Every true entrepreneur wants his or her business to succeed, but unfortunately, a huge percentage of business owners fail within the first two years. Now that we’re into 2019, it’s important to know how to keep your business thriving for yet another year. You could...
January 2019 Newsletter

January 2019 Newsletter

This Month’s TOPIC // Identifying Today’s Entrepreneur: How This Generation Is Reshaping The Mold This Is Not Your Daddy’s Company Anymore Business owners with original ideas used to be able to buy a factory and get their product marching out in...
What Skills Determine a Leader

What Skills Determine a Leader

I’ve met several people who have struggled to run businesses and even had to close their businesses because they lacked quality leadership skills. Maybe they don’t work as well with others as they thought or simply don’t fully understand what it means to be a leader....
Maintaining Your Business Resolutions Throughout The Year

Maintaining Your Business Resolutions Throughout The Year

Let’s be real here: how often do we promise to commit to our new year’s resolutions, only to forget about it by February? Just the other day, I was getting ahead on some of my spring cleaning and I found a list I had made to ensure I stuck to my 2018 resolutions. It...
Writing Successful Business Plans For The New Year

Writing Successful Business Plans For The New Year

As 2018 has come to a close, we’ve done a ton to make the new year transition as smooth as possible. We’ve wrapped up 2018 and we’re ready to welcome 2019. But as the end of the year can be a crazy time for business owners, so too is the beginning of one. You’ve got...
How To Stay Productive When You Work From Home

How To Stay Productive When You Work From Home

Opportunities to work from home can be both a blessing and a curse – something I am all too familiar with. Creating your own office space gives you much more freedom to work on your own and in your own way, but your own home can also be chock-full of...