Category: Business Planning
Five Ways Not Having a Mission Statement Can Hurt Your Business
Mission statements are used to communicate the company’s vision to external entities such as customers and society. As a result, it is used by the external entities to form a public image about the company.
How to Build a Following Before You Even Open Your Doors
In order to have a successful business launch these days, businesses must turn to the web. Your Facebook and Twitter efforts should focus on three key tasks.
Managed Services Can Benefit Your Business
Here’s a question asked repeatedly by small-business owners: “Where do I spend the money to improve my business?” A challenge many small and middle market-business (SMB) owners face is that they recognize the need to grow—whether it’s products or services—yet their funds are in short supply. Managed Services One option that owners can consider is [...]
Conducting a Business Tune-Up
Just as you’d change the plugs and filters to increase fuel efficiency and have your car run at peak performance, you can tune up your business to run better in any economy.
The Lean Startup Movement
A rising movement is sweeping the business world with what might be called the world’s first startup philosophy. And people are paying attention.
8 Factors Propelling Women to the Top in the Social Revolution
Opportunities to commit bombard us at every turn. For many women, it leads them to over-commit in relationships, but when tempered to a manageable scale, this willingness to build relationships sets women up for great success today.
Tips to Green Your Workplace
Regardless of the size of your workspace – be it large or small – you can take a number of steps to lighten both your environmental footprint and that of your organization.
Be Prepared for Seasonal Business Changes
It’s critical to carefully plan your operations ahead of time, so you can take maximum advantage of your opportunities before they are gone, just like the changing seasons.
8 Ways to Make Every Employee a Salesperson
Regardless of their position or job description, there’s an opportunity for all levels of workers to be salespeople, ambassadors, promoters, and cheerleaders for your company–and boost your profits and sales revenues in the process.
Selecting a Phone System for Your Small Business
If the thought of saving time, trouble and money on your company’s phone service rings the bell for you, technology may bring you good news. You can act, sound and function more like a future Fortune 500 business using the equipment you have—better. How To Do It For one thing, you can wed your phone [...]
Accounting Careers Add Up to Lucrative Future
The number of undergraduate accounting students has grown seven times in the past three years, and enrollment of master’s students has more than doubled.
Live Your Dream Without Quitting Your Day Job
From figuring out what your dream is to quitting in a way that exponentially increases your chance of success, Quitter is full of inspiring stories and actionable advice.
5 Strategic Partnerships for Small Business Growth
By recognizing the importance of strategic partners, and with planning, you can develop your list of “must have” strategic partners to help build your business’s reputation and value with your customers.
Do Your Spring C.L.E.A.N – ing Now
Shama Kabani, author of the best-selling book, “The Zen of Social Marketing,” founder and chief executive officer of The Marketing Zen Group, recommends that every business-and individual for that matter-put on their apron and rubber gloves and do a little online Spring C.L.E.A.N-ing. This acronym details exactly how to clean an online identity and image.
How is Risk Determined?
Why don’t things go wrong more often? Well, each object in your home has been designed by engineers, and engineers don’t just design things to work.
5 Free Tools for Collaboration
You don’t have to be a tech geek to work smarter in and out of the office; there are some straightforward, free software programs that will help you connect with colleagues for conversation and collaboration. Let technology simplify your work life with these free software programs. Each offers the ability to get work done on [...]
Melted Rabbit Marketing
Easter always reminds me of a particularly funny story from my childhood – in reminiscing about it this year, I realized there was a marketing parallel that I’d previously overlooked. A Typical Kid — With a Healthy Chocolate Addiction I’ve always been a bit of a chocoholic, so it should come as no real surprise [...]
