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Do You Consider Yourself a Business Professional?

There are many different pathways to be successful at your job. But one of the more interesting perspectives to take is if you ask yourself a question – do you consider yourself a business professional?

Business professional working

You might think of yourself as an expert in your field. Perhaps you believe you are a great salesperson. But what does it mean to be a business professional? To answer this question, one of the things that you have to think about is how well you present yourself online these days.

The best business professionals are the ones who have the best online presence. They also have the most precise description of what they do and who they are.…

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5 Best Offsite Meeting Ideas To Inspire Your Employees

Despite business owners’ efforts to set up the best offsite meetings, many employees dread attending them. As a business owner, you might want to host one of the few great offsite meetings. After all, your company’s success could depend on it.

Conducting off-site meeting

These meetings are a great opportunity to build relationships. However, if you fail to plan a fun and exciting yet educational meeting with your team, you will improve your company’s productivity levels.

Read this post to learn about the best offsite meeting ideas to inspire your team.

Revisit Your Company Values

One of the best ways to inspire your team is to revisit your company values.…

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5 Ways To Grow Your Small Business

Whether you are launching a startup or have spent several years establishing your business, growth is essential for success. Every small business, regardless of which industry it is in, benefits from generating new clients as well as encouraging repeat customers to purchase products or services again.

Boutique owners discussing strategy

Implementing these five strategies is an excellent way to grow your business quickly to help it reach its full potential.

Develop a Comprehensive Understanding of Your Target Audience

Before you even launched your business, you determined who your target audience was. However, it is not enough simply to know who your products or services appeal to.…

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5 Tips to Help You Manage Remote Employees Effectively

Managing employees situated in different locations around the globe isn’t easy. Hiring remote workers has a number of challenges. Reviewing their work and providing timely feedback is can be difficult since you can’t physically monitor them.

Busy remote worker

But most businesses (especially startups and small companies) find hiring remote employees to be very beneficial. Here are some of the benefits:

  • You can hire top talent regardless of the location
  • Remote workers are often more productive than office workers.
  • You’ll save plenty of office expenses

If your company has multiple remote workers, it will be a challenge to keep all of them coordinated and productive.…

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Buy Or Lease? Exploring Property Options For Your Business

Property is one of the largest expenses for any business, whether that means renting a storefront or purchasing a warehouse, but expense isn’t the only challenge facing business owners.

Office building - buy or lease?

When it comes to investing in real estate, business owners need to project well into the future, determining whether a property will still meet their needs a few years down the line. Companies don’t want to be trapped with a too-small property because they already took out a loan on it, but they also don’t want to overpay on a rental they plan to remain in for years to come. So how should a business owner decide?…

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4 Strategies for Inspiring and Guiding Your Team

Not every leader has the foresight or faith of Norm Miller, which is perhaps why Gallup’s research indicates that only 14% of workers feel inspired to grow after receiving performance reviews. Yet Miller’s not exactly radical; he just takes a fresh approach to managing a workforce.

CEO guiding team in a meeting

As Interstate Batteries’ board chairman and former CEO, Miller leads from a humble, centered place. Not only does he shower his employees with resources and investment, but he carries his religious beliefs wherever he goes. It’s a beautiful blend of fiscal and people stewardship that’s resulted in a $2 billion company fueled by his creativity, risk tolerance, and spirituality.…

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Rapid Application Development: Smooth and Effortless Business Processes Automation

Some say people are lazy. We are constantly seeking easier ways to do things. We are seeking for someone or something to do things for us. Especially, boring and monotonous things and tasks that require too much attention and repetition. First, we have learned to delegate those tasks to people. Later, we also learned to delegate them to machines. That is how the concept of automation evolved.

Rapid Application Development (RAD)

More and more of our daily life processes become automated. We gladly use machines to help us live our lives with more ease. We also create apps that help us to deal with the repetitive, tedious and difficult tasks.…

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3 Trade Show Networking Tips for Success

Networking is the single most powerful tool you can use at a trade show. You cannot afford to not have your whole staff networking at all times at the trade show. Spend some time before the show perfecting the finer points of your product or service you are providing.

Networking at trade shows

Make sure that these come off as conversational and not too pushy. Any connection you make at the trade show could be a potential sale now or down the road. If you are personable and likable, even if they don’t purchase from you, they may recommend your services to friends and colleagues.…

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5 Tips For Successfully Navigating Your Online Business

Building a successful online business doesn’t happen overnight. You may be riddled with good intentions, but it takes much more than that to find your way as an entrepreneur. Mastering the art of running an online business means you’ll need to know how to play the game of the web.

Managing online business

Don’t wait until your business falls on hard times to get educated. Take a few moments now to check out a few tips that will help you successfully navigate the road to a successful online business.

1. Optimize all of your web assets

Your web assets are the whole of all the digital content your business disburses online.…

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Need Tech to Boost Your Restaurant? Use Employee Scheduling Software

Breaking into the restaurant industry is notoriously difficult. The dire statistic everybody knows is that one of every two new restaurants close after only being open for a year or two. Of those that survive past this point, their financial situation is often still precarious.

Restaurateur using employee scheduling app

In the last few years, many restaurants across North America have taken advantage of new software that has empowered them with various tools which give their budget a boost. Read on to see how employee scheduling software can give your restaurant a major advantage.

Perfect Schedules, Quickly

Employee scheduling software’s primary function is to create responsive, flexible schedules in up to 80% less time than it would otherwise take.…

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