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A Personal Phone Number Shouldn’t Be Used for Business

When starting a new business, it can be enticing to give clients and other business contacts your personal phone number because it’s convenient. You already have one, it’s easy for you to remember, and there...

byEmma Lakna

November 9, 2021

Summon Your Inner Alpha: 7 Ways Business Leaders Can Outwit the Competition

Alpha traits are key to leadership success. Business leaders can learn from these top predators how to outsmart the competition and never cede ground. In recent years, coyotes have made themselves at home across the...

byMarjorie Radlo-Zandi

November 2, 2021

Goldfish Swim School CEO Shares 5 Must-Haves in Post-Pandemic Playbook

Over the course of the last year, it’s been remarkable to watch successful adjustments to remote work, new innovation projects and everything in between, as small businesses across the nation quickly adapted to changes brought...

byChris McCuiston

November 1, 2021

How to Get Out of Day-to-Day Operations and Into Leadership

When you start a business, you have a vision of what you want running your company to be like. While every founder is different, most entrepreneurs envision customers who love their product or service so...

byChris Sica

October 29, 2021

How to Use CRM and Marketing Automation to Improve Your Scalability

Automation has become a business essential. For entrepreneurs looking to grow their business, the question always is, “How can I work smarter, not harder?” That’s where the power of marketing automation and your customer relationship...

byMatt Buchanan

October 27, 2021

Scaling Your Bootstrapped Business: 3 Tips for Lean Entrepreneurs

Like most entrepreneurs, you have likely spent hundreds of hours developing skills to build your business. By the time you start turning a profit, you’re likely to spend thousands of hours and dollars trying out...

byMark Woodbury

October 25, 2021

Automation Technologies Companies Should Focus on in Q4

Q4 is shaping up to be incredibly busy for virtually all industries. Even though it's crunch time for exceeding quarterly and annual goals, it's critical to spend adequate time positioning your company for greatness in...

byRan Craycraft

October 25, 2021

4 Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Ask Themselves

Time is the most important asset you have. Unlike money, once you’ve spent it, you can’t get it back, and how you spend it is important. They say time is money, but time is your...

byAnthony Quinones

October 23, 2021

To Grow Your Company, Prioritize Productivity Over Being ‘Busy’

Recent events have caused major shifts in how we work. Now, more than ever, businesses are rethinking what it means to be productive. Gone are the days where working more hours was the key to...

byKevin Shuler

October 20, 2021

Doing the Data Dance: Why Data Protection is Paramount to Your Business

You are setting up your business and have a million problems to worry about. Languishing toward the bottom of your painfully long to-do list are the words "privacy policy for website." You plan to find...

byMichael Buckworth

October 18, 2021

10 Actionable Steps to Automate Your Content Marketing Workflow

Being a marketer in today’s digitally dependent world without using automation tools is just like starting a business without intending to scale it. Statistics show that half of the companies in the marketing field alone...

byShelly Solis

October 18, 2021

Trade Secrets or Patents: Which Should You Choose?

Most businesses need to continuously innovate to stay relevant in the marketplace. With such intense focus on innovation, businesses naturally seek to patent their inventions to avoid infringement by other parties. But there’s an alternative:...

byAdhip Ray

October 16, 2021

8 Tips for the Work From Home Solopreneur

You’ve plunged into starting a solo business venture from home. Being a solopreneur is a fantastic experience for motivated individuals, but it can easily become stagnant if you aren’t careful. When everything starts piling up,...

byNathan Resnick

October 15, 2021

How to Build a Business with Purpose

For decades, business leaders treated purpose as an afterthought, if they thought about it at all —a donation or volunteer program to be supported after it had achieved its business goals. But times are changing....

bySteve Schmida

October 13, 2021

How Quality Reporting Helps Smart Entrepreneurs Build Investor Trust and Long-Term Returns

Think of investor reporting as the foundation of trust between a company’s founders and its investors. That trust is earned over time and is strengthened by timely reporting of company results. Strategic entrepreneurs will see...

byJonathon Angell

October 12, 2021

5 Reasons Why Startups Need to Create a Crisis Communications Plan Now

A crisis can happen to any business at any time. While planning for a crisis may seem quite ironic, given that the very definition of the word is something that happens unexpectedly, it is incredibly...

byAmanda Triest

October 11, 2021

Why Your Business Should Stay Remote in the Post-Pandemic Era

There’s no doubt that the devastating coronavirus pandemic completely altered the business sphere. So many companies had to adopt a fully virtual operational model and allow their employees to work from home for the first...

byRay Blakney

October 8, 2021

Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in Their Business Journey

Are you finally ready to be your own boss and launch a new business? You probably already have your business plan written up and are ready to introduce your products or services to the market....

byChristan Hiscock

October 5, 2021

6 Ways to Keep Your Startup’s Finances Balanced Year-Round

Now that we are halfway into 2021, it is time to think about how you can further improve your startup’s operations to guarantee greater success in the latter half of the year. During this process,...

byNathan Liao

October 4, 2021

Power in People: Humans Will Determine Digital Transformation Success

Human talent will determine whether the growth of technology and digital transformation in business succeeds. According to the Economist, one of the most significant outcomes of the pandemic will be “the infusion of data-enabled services...

byAndrew Richardson

October 1, 2021