Business Tips
Find result driven, quick and easy business tips to give your business a competitive advantage over your rivals, become more efficient with your resources and adapt to new technologies and innovations quickly.
How to prepare your workforce for the post-lockdown period
Sarah Danzl, Head of Communications and Client Advocacy at Degreed, discusses how business leaders can support their employees during the next phase of the shutdown.
How added value can help you close deals during crisis
In markets where competition is fierce and service offerings aren’t wildly distinct, even at the best of times, brands are looking for ways to stand out. Jamie Fisher, from Supercard shares top tips on using added value in the fight for consumer conversion:.
Sales Tactics: What to do after a client says ‘I will think about it’
When it comes to building a successful business, mastering the right sales tactics is of immense importance.In this article, we’ll tackle the issue of closing a deal when a client says they want to think about your offer.
13 Customer Retention Strategies to adopt immediately
Retaining existing customers is probably even more important than attracting new ones. In fact, statistics show that satisfied, loyal customers share their positive experience with a brand to 11 other people. Which means, by retaining customers you’ll be also bringing new ones.
13 ways to get more customers and boost sales
If there’s one question all business owners lose sleep to, it must be ‘How to get more customers?’. That’s not surprising at all considering the fact that more customers equals more sales, thus more money.
What to do when a client doesn’t pay? Tips that always work
Several entrepreneurs were willing to share their experiences with clients who refuse to pay and what to do when a client does not pay.
5 Small Business Blogging Tips to Guarantee Growth
Providing you do it right, a good blog is a great way to keep the content on your website fresh and relevant and will ultimately drive more traffic there.
How to Use Instagram for B2B Marketing
According to a recent survey conducted by Facebook, 83% of Instagram users discover new products and services on Instagram, 81% of users research products and services and 80% use Instagram to decide whether to buy a product or not.
How to Pick the Perfect Outdoor Signage for Your Small Business
Marketing and messaging through the use of on-site signage will help your brick and mortar establishment stay afloat even during economic challenges like the one we’re facing now.
Business Website Tips to Save Your Company’s Reputation
We’ve been contacted by many of our clients asking, what should we do with our website, how can we improve it to keep customers up to date or my business is in danger. Here are our 3 top tips with what to do during the outbreak of COVID19 with your business website.
Quick Way to Create a Business Continuity Plan and Cope with Threats
What is a business continuity plan and how to create one as quickly as possible? We did the homework for you and explained it thoroughly.
5 Ways to Promote Your Business during Crisis
COVID-19 response: We are giving our premium membership for free to every business out there. It is our mission to help and support SMEs always. To promote your business during crisis might not seem like a good idea, due to everyone’s focus being on the widespread...
4 Tips to Follow When Negotiating Business Deals Virtually
COVID-19 response: We are giving our premium membership for free to every business out there. It is our mission to help and support SMEs always. More and more businesses are seeking virtual alternatives to the B2B trade shows and exhibitions they can no longer attend...
How to Keep Your Business Running During a Crisis
COVID-19 response: We are giving our premium membership for free to every business out there. It is our mission to help and support SMEs always. Commuting for work is slowly becoming harder and harder, nearing close to impossible during this time of crisis. With many...
From Passion to Profit: Earn Money with Your Hobby
It’s fair to say that the digitalization has had an even bigger impact on life and work than the industrialization. Nowadays, you’re just a click away to turn a hobby into a business. The...
Top 10 Small Business Ideas to Bring You Profit in 2020
COVID-19 response: We are giving our premium membership for free to every business out there. It is our mission to help and support SMEs always. As we enter a new decade and feel the need for change and growth awake in us, many entrepreneurial minds around the world...
20 Must-Have Apps for Entrepreneurs in 2020
Right at this moment, there must be thousands of entrepreneurs around the world taken over by FOMO, googling for the best apps for entrepreneurs in 2020.With this in mind, we went above and beyond with research to put together a list of 20 must-have apps for entrepreneurs, whether seasoned or rookies.
The Importance of Gratitude in Business
hy is it that it takes us zero seconds of reasoning to complain, but years would pass and we’d still feel uncomfortable to express gratitude? As a matter of fact, it seems like we are badly programmed to overlook the importance of gratitude in business.
Office Christmas Celebration Ideas for Small Businesses
For some people the Christmas mood kicks in as early as mid Summer and they have plenty of office Christmas party ideas (Who the heck invented #ChristmasInJuly?). But we liked our beach...
Why Investing in Video Marketing Is a Big Deal for Your Small Business
Videos have become an integral element of our daily lives and therefore video marketing has become a valuable and powerful tool for business promotion. Statistics show that marketers using any...
5 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Improve Their Personal Health and Wellbeing
Building a successful business requires a lot of hard work and determination. As an owner and a manager you need to be an example to other employees by working long hours, pushing yourself to...
How to Connect with Clients on a Personal Level
Keeping your customers happy is the best thing you could do if you want your business to have a future. Satisfied clients create a loyal customer base and in order to get there, it is imperative...
Creative Guerrilla Marketing Ideas for Small Businesses
Marketing is expensive, especially when you are a startup. When your budget is already limited paying thousands for marketing services, without the guarantee on ROI, can put an end to your...
10 Rules for Success from Jack Ma
Jack Ma, Alibaba CEO, is the second richest man in China. Even though he grew up in an isolated country, in his adulthood, he succeeded to put his name on the map with shiny letters due to his...
Which B2B Lead Generation Strategies Actually Work in 2019?
B2B lead generation represents the best course of action to grow your company. However, lead generation is not as easy a process as many thought. As an entrepreneur, you are constantly...
The Ultimate Guide to Writing a Killer B2B Proposal
Even though through your website you present all the products and services your company offers, direct sales are still the best way to attract them to your business. To be successful with the...
How to Identify Business Opportunities for Maximum Impact
Success is achieved through constant innovation and looking for potential opportunities on the market. However, finding fresh opportunities requires a lot of hard work and knowledge. But what...
Five Money-Saving Tips for Your Small Business to Reduce Expenses
Statistics show that 8 out of 10 small businesses go under in their first three years of operating. Reasons vary, but usually, they are not paying enough attention to their customers or finding a...
How Can Millennials Start a Successful Wholesale Distribution Business
Millennials will soon rule the world. They are the strongest entrepreneurs of 2019 and beyond. Nearly 66% of all Millennials have already set their entrepreneurship goals and think their future...
How to Get Retail Stores to Sell Your Wholesale Products
It is a competitive world and getting your products to be sold at major retail stores is not easy to achieve. You'll be dealing with people who've been in the game for a long time and know when a...
How Small Businesses Survive Competition in Today’s Economy
Small businesses bring communities together. Your favourite restaurants, wholesale stores, coffee shops and others are all part of the small business group. Small businesses are emotionally bound...
5 Ways to Cope with Anxiety and Help Your Body and Soul
As we celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week in 2019, we look back at the most common mental health problem entrepreneurs have in the 21st century – anxiety. This year mental awareness week theme...
Women’s Business Empowerment and Gender Equality
Have you heard of Sarah Breedlove? She was an African-American woman living in the 19th century who achieved success no other woman imagined possible at the time. Or for Margaret Hardenbrook...
4 Myths about Entrepreneurship – BUSTED
Entrepreneurs are everywhere and that's a good thing. The economy is growing and the future is prosperous. However, if you are a newbie in the world of entrepreneurship, many business myths might...
7 Ways to Overcome Fear of Success for Your Own Good
The symptoms are already there, yet you are uncertain on what's going on. You started missing and being late on all the crucial meetings. Arguments with team members become an often occurrence,...
Five Key Pieces of Advice for Wannabe Entrepreneurs
Tired of your job and want to become your own boss? Have a million dollar idea? Need advice for wannabe entrepreneurs? If you answered yes to all three questions, then this article is what you...
3 Crucial Goals You Should Achieve with Your Business
Many small and medium businesses face the same problem – not creating good enough plans for the future. All the focus of employees and managers is on finishing their tasks on time. You already...
How You Can Become a Virtual Assistant and Easily Work from Home
Unhappy with your current job? Do you want to break from your shell and become a noteworthy entrepreneur? Well, you are not alone buddy, get on the virtual assistant rocket and blast yourself to...
6 Habits That Make Elon Musk a Successful Entrepreneur
"People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else."twitterFrom all the entrepreneurs in the world, we have chosen Elon Mask as an...
Effective Time Management Tips for Insanely Busy People That You Can Implement Now
Tick-tock. All of a sudden, a five minutes meeting became a two-and-a-half-hour confusion-feast full of stress and disorientation without any breakthrough. As an entrepreneur, you become less...
How to Stop Fear of Making Decisions from Damaging Your Business
Life is not a video game. You cannot go to your previously saved game when you make mistakes and continue from that point. Nope, life and business are about making decisions and taking the right...
How to Learn From Failure and Turn It Into an Advantage
Let me tell you something that you already know – from failure you learn. There are dozens of articles, videos and books that talk on the subject and yet they fail to deliver the message right....
Home Office Ideas: How to Make Your Home Working Space Comfortable
COVID-19 response: We are giving our premium membership for free to every business out there. It is our mission to help and support SMEs always. With remote working growing popular by the day, home office ideas are in high demand right now. Although in the past...
You May Suffer from It: The Curse of Knowledge
Has your mother ever called you home urgently to fix some major issue with her laptop? Oh, no! What could she have done now? She didn't delete some important file. No, no. She just accidentally...
5 Tips to MAKE YOUR Business MIND STRONG and Fearless
All powerful people create the illusion that they are fearless. So why is that? All men fear something. However, what differs the strong from the weak, is their ability to understand the emotion,...
7 POWERFUL Characteristics of Business Owners That GUARANTEE You Success
You may like him or not, but Donald Trump has shown the world that he knows how to win. Yeah, we've all been witnesses of his unusual attitude, but nonetheless, his powerful characteristics made...
ADOPT These Leadership Traits And BECOME a SUCCESSFUL Leader
What makes a winner a winner? Some say hard-work, knowledge, talent and... What else was it? Ah yes, leadership! There you have it! You totally forgot about developing your leadership skills....
6 Useful Apps to HELP Your Small Business GROW
Software development has gone through some incredible discoveries in the last few years. The need for speedy growth, made the business world even more dependable on software. Management teams...
How to Stay MOTIVATED in Your Small Business
Nothing is impossible! This is not just a Nike ad; it is reality. A lot of small business owners lack the motivation to make their business better. It is in our nature as humans to forget that we...
Ways to Improve Work Performance and Optimise Productivity
"Under pressure...Pressure pushing down on me...Pressing down on you...No man ask for..." We are all under pressure to be more productive. The more productive we are, the more profitable we...
The SECRET Ingredient for Happiness in Your Job
While we celebrate International Happiness Day, ask yourself – are you happy at work? Do you have a smile on your face when you arrive at work? The answer should be “Yes”. Wonder why? Because if...
What Business Casual Dress Code Really Means?
Dressing up for work can be a hassle. It all depends on the style of clothing the company you work practices. Who wouldn't like to wear a t-shirt or a hoodie while at work? Some companies are...
MASSIVE MISTAKE a Company Can Make When Aiming to Expand: Blizzard Entertainment Case Study
We previously talked about risk management and how to deal with it. And, what better way to learn something new as a small business than from examples of specific industries and big...
Manage Business Risk and Turn It into Profit
Every company around the globe is faced with some form of risk. That risk might affect the chance of building a successful company. Not only that, but even successful companies are affected by...
Persuasion – The Secret to Win Business Communication
Persuasion is a trait wanted by everyone. If you're going to be successful in business, being persuasive is a must. Whether a job interview, or selling your product/service to a high-value...
The Pros and Cons of Social Media for Business
COVID-19 response: We are giving our premium membership for free to every business out there. It is our mission to help and support SMEs always. One day you are a local business with your regular daily customers and the next day, suddenly, you are a viral sensation...
How to Predict the Future Trends and Transform Your Business
COVID-19 response: We are giving our premium membership for free to every business out there. It is our mission to help and support SMEs always. Who doesn’t want a crystal ball that predicts the future? Having all that information about the market can make you a...
Five Tips to Develop the Right Mindset – How Persistence Pays Off in the End
If you want something out of a career, and if there are some goals you want to reach, you have to work hard. Furthermore, success is only 10% talent and 90% hard work, thus making it a...
Highly Effective Small Business Tips for Success
Playing the business game is fun and full of challenges. The market goes up and down and you as a entrepreneur must adapt. Questions must be asked and you start from the core - how to run a...
5 Golden Rules to Build a Strong Local Branding Strategy
Kick-starting your business in your local area can be a tough and lengthy process. As an entrepreneur, this is the first problem you must face in any part of the world. At the begging, it does...
Five Tips to Grow Your Business Through Sales and Marketing Alignment
As you expand your business, there is a need for new departments. You will need to make sales, marketing and human resources departments. If you are in production, you will need to add to the...
Stress as an Entrepreneur: Learn to Manage It with These 8 Tips
Undoubtedly one of the most stressful jobs in the world, only second to being a mother, is being an entrepreneur. Despite it being highly glamorized in today’s culture, studies have shown that...
Accomplish Your Business Goals Smarter and Faster than Your Competition
Setting goals is extremely important when embarking on a path to success. (read why) However, it is crucial to make sure you specify those goals the correct way. The sole fact that you are...