Distractions surround us everywhere, especially with the addition of social media into most employees’ work routines.  At any given moment, an employee’s attention can be pulled away and focus can be lost for hours.  So how can you make sure your workers remain engaged and focused on the tasks at hand? BizSugar.com is looking for [...]

No, it’s not a typo. I am referring to death caused by social media and not whether social media died already or not. We all know that social media is alive and well, in fact it is on another tab on my browser. People from all walks of life spanning different continents are socially active [...]

Ideally we’d all love to start our small businesses with unlimited funds but that’s a very unrealistic dream.  Suddenly you wake up and realize that you have a very tiny budget to get your business off of the ground.  Then you start scurrying around trying to make the most of your small start-up budget. If [...]

Business owners have different reasons for outsourcing some of their business processes. In some cases, it may not even be a want but rather, a need. It’s tough to run a business where you feel the need to do everything yourself. Sometimes it is wise to delegate tasks to a maven or an assistant for [...]

Being a CEO of any business is not a walk in the park. Leadership is more than just sitting behind a desk all day,  preparing action plans for employee misdemeanors and clocking out at 6. Tenured employees may know all about business operations but tenure is just one of the factors to be considered for [...]

As I previously mentioned a few weeks ago, Small Business Trends and Smallbiztechnology.com are in the midst of conducting the first ever Small Business Influencer awards.  Nominations ended just over this past weekend and I wanted to alert you that voting has now begun. Over 500 of the most influential individual people, companies and organizations [...]

An effective marketing strategy is vital for any business. When paid advertisements, billboards and brochures were all the rage back in the day, there was a mad scramble to get the best, albeit affordable, designs to get mass attention. Nowadays, social media is at the forefront of marketing that everything and anything which it encompasses [...]

Did you sign up for outsourcing figuring you could forget about IT? Ignore the management of IT at your own risk. One company outsourced its IT, negotiating excellent rates. Sadly, the outsourcer failed to purchase software, installing the same copy again and again. Horrendous customer service created productivity issues. The company paid a penalty to [...]

In a world where consumers have an almost unlimited number of places to shop, small businesses must work even harder to stand out from their competition. One way to differentiate your small business from other small businesses (and big brand retailers) is to humanize customer service by ensuring that your website is as customer-friendly as [...]