If your business is the heart of your endeavors, then your employees are the blood that you circulate. Sure, you could go on without them, but there wouldn’t be much point. Most business owners put a lot of time, effort, and focus into making sure they hire the right employees, …
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How To Ensure Your Business Is Secure
Every business owner wants to achieve success, but the key to strive for ever greater heights is always to keep one foot on the ground. All that success means nothing if your company is left vulnerable to attack or in-house issues through a lack of safety and security measures to …
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Business Decisions Have Consequences, But Do Yours Have a Rationale Too?
We all know that making the wrong business decisions can cost you big time if you’re not careful. But as well as having consequences, the decisions you make should also have a rationale behind them. If you make decisions without having a rational reasoning to back them up, you’re going …
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Store Wars: A New Hope (Against Ecommerce)
Running a retail operation doesn’t have to be your run of the mill setup. More and more businesses are making a store an immersive experience, and with the rise in ecommerce services, there is scope for a budding entrepreneur to bring the human touch back into shopping. Before all of …
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Take Your Business Wherever It Needs to Go
As a business owner it’s easy to find a comfortable place in the market and stay there. It’s easy to set up shop in a particular geographical area and be happy to do business there. It’s easy to continue producing the same things, year in year out. It’s easy to …
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6 Essential Skills You Need As A Human Resource Professional
What delivers success to a human resource professional? Could it be their professional aptitude, the soft skills they possess or something totally different? You have probably heard that, in building a career, shortcuts never exists. However, there are skills you can apply to thrust yourself further and faster into becoming …
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Starting a Home Business and Working From Home
While some might be confronted with important decisions such as what suit they will wear to work tomorrow or what’s the fastest route to the office, others worry about less critical things like what to eat for breakfast or when they should take a nap. This is because many people …
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Bulletproof Strategies To Impress Your Construction Firm Customers
As a construction or building firm owner, your company’s reputation will live and die by the service you give your customers. Sadly, there are far too many building businesses that leave their clients in the lurch, with unfinished projects, overcharging, and untimely working practices a common cause of complaint. The …
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To Stop Your Business Burning, Keep It out of Hot Water
Getting your business in hot water with the law and local authorities can be detrimental to it. It can scold it enough in the present to make it take a devastating financial hit. It can also leave permanent burns and scars on it in regards to its brand. So, in …
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4 Benefits of Automating Mortgage Broker Compensation Management
At first glance, planning to automate the many processes related to compensation management for mortgage brokers may not be necessary. After all, when spreadsheets already do the job well enough, shelling out an extra dollars to purchase additional software doesn’t seem necessary. However, as the real estate industry grows stronger …
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The Art Of Poaching Employees
Entrepreneurs are often obsessed with the hiring process, and it’s not hard to see why. You’ll often hear them saying things like “running a business is easy, it’s hiring the right people that’s hard.” Finding individuals who are perfect for your company who just so happen to be between jobs …
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Making Money From World Real Estate
Would you like to pick up a beach side property for a steal? Are you looking for a better deal for your property investment? If you are serious about finding a return on property and you are willing to think outside the box, why not consider investing abroad? It is …
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5 Tell-Tale Signs That You Need to Upgrade Your Office Plan
At some point, all successful businesses outgrow their office space. This growth can be evident in the increasing number of employees, reputation or revenue; but as soon as you have the means, you should look into upgrading your office space. It’s well worth consulting professionals to get your office plan …
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Setting Up Your Home Office in 4 Simple Steps
Working from home can create its own list of problems, but one of them does not need to be your home office space itself. We hear many freelancers worrying about their home office spaces, perhaps not having enough space, or feeling claustrophobic and disorganized. Having a focused and organized space …
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Things to Consider Before Trading Internationally
You’ve set up a business and grown your venture successfully – congratulations! But you’ve decided that domestic growth isn’t enough and now you’re considering expanding further. Trading internationally could offer huge benefits to your company, with the potential to open up new markets, create new jobs, and increase your client …
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Top CEOs Always Have A Deep And Complex Relationship With Time
“Time is money” were three immortal words Benjamin Franklin wrote in his book, Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One. Ever since, they’ve formed the guiding principle behind many of the actions of today’s great business people. Time literally is money – and time wasted in money …
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