New Business Ideas for During and After COVID-19

2020 has seen the world of business change like never before, or at least in the living memory of most people. Around the world, people were suddenly forced to stop working or work from home. Now the restrictions have eased in many places, though resurgences continue sporadically. All of this poses serious limitations on businesses, and challenges to planning for the future.

Work from home is the new normal

However, there are many innovative entrepreneurs that rise to the various challenges brought by the global pandemic. This can be seen through the hackathons and competitions that seek to take on global issues, such as easing congestion in public places to ensure social distancing can be maximized, and a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE).…

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Why is Retargeting Worth a Try (Infographic)

Retargeting requires some practice and knowledge to get positive results. It is well worth the effort, though. The fact that only 2% of website visitors purchase on their first visit to a website should be reason enough to consider the many options of a retargeting campaign. Through cookies, you can bring your ads to visitors anywhere online, encouraging them to return to your website.

Retargeting tips

The following are crucial facts on the effectiveness of retargeting:

  • Increases engagement by 400%
  • Boosts sales by 50% by combining retargeting with another marketing channel
  • Retargeted ads’ click-through-rate is 0.7%, while display ads’ click-through-rate is 0.07%.
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Is Slow Website Speed Driving Away Your Audience? (Infographic)

Is your website not doing well despite your best efforts? You’ve put your heart and soul into the content, worked hard on great on-page SEO, and you’ve written a thousand guest posts to get traffic. Yet, somehow, you’re still struggling to maintain a steady audience.

Slow website

It could be a problem with your site’s speed. Slowness is an issue plaguing thousands, if not millions, of websites. Most websites need some form of speed improvement so it’s highly likely that poor speed is afflicting your website too.

Even if you don’t see the effects of slow speeds or you don’t even know your site is slow, you might have a problem.…

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Small Business Spotlight: Texas (Infographic)

Small businesses dominate the landscape in Texas. Though most things are larger here, this isn’t true for entrepreneurs. Over 99 percent of businesses in the state are classified as small businesses. This includes over 2.2 million nonemployers and more than 791,000 small businesses hiring between 1 and 499 employees.

Texas lone star print

The state of small business in Texas is extremely favorable for entrepreneurs, particularly women. Over 28 percent of small businesses are owned by women in the state, and 19 percent are owned equally by men and women. This gives Texas the second-highest number of women-owned businesses in the country.

If you’re ready to start a business in Texas, there are several key things to consider.…

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What is Digital Asset Management? Why is it So Important? (Infographic)

Digital asset management is basically a method for a company or organization to store and retrieve information as needed, on demand. This allows for more efficient and pragmatic decision making. If you’re not on board yet, this group of technologies and methodologies is quickly changing the way business is done, and you can be sure the competition will be using it, sooner rather than later.

Enterprise digital asset management can help you in many ways, for example in presentations, audio, Documentations, images and in any other multimedia content or digital content.. However what it all comes down to is that DAM can store digital assets and make them easy to retrieve and view whenever decisions need to be made.…

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Choosing Office Chairs: Your Essential Guide (Infographic)

The stakes are high when you’re choosing new chairs for your office. Get this right and you’ll provide your employees with a comfortable, attractive base to work from; get it wrong and you could cause your personnel to experience discomfort and at the same time make a serious style faux pas.

Businesswoman working

To keep you on track during the deliberation process, here’s your essential guide to selecting the right workplace chairs

Know your spending limit – and shop around

If you’re not careful, you could end up overspending on your seating solutions. To prevent this from happening, it pays to set a strict spending limit before you start perusing your options.…

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Get The Most Value for Each Dollar You Spend: Here’s How (Infographic)

Think of the ways you spend your money! Be specific, be controlled and affording luxurious things will no longer be a dream. The infographic drawn by Oliver’s Travels gives us a clear comparison between what we buy and what we could buy for a certain amount of money.

Piggy bank

What if you were told that instead of spending money on 12 nights out in NYC, you can book a 5-Day tour to visit Canada and view the Northern Lights? What if you do not spend $906 on Christmas this year and instead rent out a villa in the Caribbean! The infographic has an advice for Formula 1 fans too.…

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Bad Breath Can Ruin Your Career – Seriously! (Infographic)

Halitosis is nothing to joke around about. Not only does it make the people you talk to at work and in life want to vomit at the mere thought of communicating with you, it can literally kill you! Looking at the infographic on this page, you’ll note that at least 60 percent of people suffering from bad breath are also much more stressed than their minty fresh counterparts.

Bad breath in the office

There’s no “U” in bad breath!

Now, you might be fine with elevated cortisol and the effects it has on your long term health, including high blood pressure, heart disease, weakened immune system, and the slow and steady destruction of your brain.…

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What Makes an Ideal Office? (Infographic)

Office environments vary depending on the size of business and industry, but at the end of the day, everyone has their own view on what an ideal office would be like. Ensuring that employees are happy in their working environment is extremely important as happiness is the main contributor to a productive and motivated team. Cezanne HR carried out a survey to establish what Britain would deem as their ideal office, taking a huge variety of factors in to consideration.

Happy office

What makes an ideal office

How can you create the best office environment for your employees? Well, it might be time to consider allowing minimal supervision, as being micro-managed is one of Britain’s largest office annoyances!

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Superhero Workforce: Which Superhero are You at Your Company? (Infographic)

We all have those days at work where we wish things could run a bit more smoothly to avoid problems with productivity and efficiency. Oh, how much easier life would be if we were superheroes! Unfortunately, we aren’t blessed with powers, but we can rely on the latest tech to keep our working lives as efficient as possible.

Captain America

Warehouse management specialists PeopleVox have constructed an infographic to help us explore the idea of a superhero workforce. Is your job role mentioned? How much easier would life be if we had our very own Hulk instead of using a forklift?!

So, which superheroes are ideal for your company?

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