Three Pieces Of Advice For New Entrepreneurs

shutterstock_126835685

It’s been 18 years since I’ve been a new entrepreneur, but that’s only given me time to figure out what I didn’t know that I didn’t know then. Looking back, I would have given anything to have someone whispering in my ear these three fundamentals about new business:

1. Build a solid, but flexible business plan.

Every successful business has a strong and comprehensive business plan to guide the company through the years. It’s impossible to predict the future, but prepare for all you can. Spend extensive time planning, and then once you think you have it, keep working.

With that said, a business plan isn’t set in stone.…

Continue reading →

Serviced Office Vs. Virtual Office – What’s Good For Your Business

shutterstock_29651335

If you’re just starting out in the business world and are looking for office premises, you have two options in front of you: A Serviced Office, or a Virtual Office. You can choose either option, but it’s best to know which one is best suited for your business before you take the plunge.

A Serviced Office

A serviced office is an actual office that’s rented out to a tenant by a serviced office provider. The provider might have a bunch of such offices in the same building. Such an office gives you all the advantages of having your own office space, without actually having to own one.…

Continue reading →

Hiring? Don’t Lose Your Loyal Customers in the Process

Good news! The economy is picking back up, or so they say. Regardless of the politics, a quick survey of business windows does show a surge in “now hiring” signs. This is great news for both the growing business and the thousands of job seekers still looking for jobs”¦or is it?

I talk with many job seekers from all stages of life and all levels of education and there is a common theme to each of the conversations. Businesses are forgetting that their applicants are most likely also some of their biggest fans. People apply to work for the companies that they know and love.…

Continue reading →

How To Recruit Top Tier Students To Your Company

Every graduation season companies scramble to hire a fresh crop of those just entering the workforce for the first time. These new grads are filled with energy, excitement, and innovative ideas that employers can’t wait to have on their payroll.

How To Recruit Top Tier Students To Your Company

Of course, this level of enthusiasm isn’t intended for all recent grads “” companies want the best of the best, the naturally brilliant top tier students, who were born to overachieve.

How to Get Top Tier Students to Choose Your Company

Attend Career Fairs: This may sound like an obvious strategy, but it’s also the obvious place to find college seniors.

…Continue reading →

How Business Consulting Services Can Help Your Business to Grow

Business consulting services can help organizations make a fresh start if they’re floundering, chart a course for success if they’re just starting out or grow to new heights if they’re doing well and looking to grow wisely. This type of service has become more important for a number of businesses in the wake of the recent economic downturn that forced many enterprises to cut costs drastically just to stay afloat.

How Business Consulting Services Can Help Your Business to Grow

Investing in business advisory consulting may seem counterintuitive for a business trying to keep costs down, but the return on the investment can be substantial and long lasting, and more than worth the initial expenditure in the end.…

Continue reading →

8 Tips For Establishing The Most Productive Office Environment

The environment we work in has a considerable impact on both our level of wellbeing and our productivity. The design and layout of our office or, workspace, can have an effect on our work productivity, frame of mind, mood, interaction with our colleagues, and even has an influence on how much time we spend distracted from our work.

With the above in mind here are 8 practical tips to follow to establish a productive office environment;

Go Open Plan

Many businesses will use individual offices or cubicles for their employees to work from. Historically the thinking was that each employee needed their own private area to work from.…

Continue reading →

4 Truths Which Spur Growth Through Mobile

Mobile has become a global force to be reckoned with. People now have been two or three devices, and are apparently becoming addicted in particular to their smartphones.

With the growth in BYOD (bring your own devices) over the past five years small businesses are now able to hire dispersed staff located remotely, globally, as well as from a home or assigned virtual hub through secure systems.

4 Truths Which Spur Growth Through Mobile

Here are four tips which outline why a mobile device strategy is the right choice in order to give you extra dynamism, keep staff and project contractors connected and maintain productive remote business affairs:

1.…

Continue reading →

Enhancing Workforce Performance Through Reliable Mobility Usage

Enhancing Workforce Performance through Reliable Mobility Usage

Business structures today are more and more compelled to encourage their workers to communicate and collaborate any time, anywhere, through the use of any connected device. The rise of the telecommunications industry and its technological advancements are increasingly turning into a foundation to enable these capabilities.

Signal boosters/mobile repeaters for reliable mobility

Your business location and your choice of phone service provider can determine whether you have a reliable signal or are struggling to make coherent phone calls. The ability to go from one bar of service up to the optimal number of bars can be the signifier of whether or not your mobility usage is contributing reliably to your business.…

Continue reading →

Why I Finally Said Goodbye To Organic Traffic

As a small business owner in the online niche, I have to make a confession: I’ve gamed Google for too long, often unintentionally – so long that, eventually, I reap what I sow.

You see, I own and run sites. Starting up 5-6 years ago, I didn’t really care about search engine ranking. At that time, I know a thing or two about SEO, but I have no interest in getting my ranking up.

I was initially not really into blogging. But I tried it anyway and started a blog, Noobpreneur.com, mainly to document my online entrepreneurship journey.

The first thing I tried to make my mark in online business was starting up an e-commerce site selling natural treatment products.…

Continue reading →