If you’re like me or pretty much anyone else in corporate America, you’ve suffered through endless hours of information overload, a rotation of long-winded blowhards in love with hearing themselves speak and major time wasting sessions…also known as “meetings”. At times you feel held captive for days, weeks and even …
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Cooking at Home for Cash: Smart Steps for Small Food Businesses on the Rise
Believe it or not, many food-related businesses start in a home kitchen. Yes, even with all the FDA regulations, OSHA and food safety, you can start up a food-centric business in your home. Here’s what you need to know to be part of the many new small food businesses that …
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How to Survive Your First Year as a Start-up
With one in four start-ups failing within the first year and only half making it to the five-year mark, it’s safe to say the first few years of your new business will be far from easy. You’re likely to experience a number of challenges within your first year that will …
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How to Handle Accidents in the Workplace
Accidents in the workplace may be common, but they are never a welcome occurrence. Nobody wins when an employee falls, trips, or ends up crushed in a piece of industrial machinery. Minor injuries heal quickly and the only cost to the employer is a few days absence from the workplace. …
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Is Your Social Media Marketing Strategy Really Working?
Like many business owners, you’ve probably spent a lot of time creating your social media marketing strategy, then spent just as much time implementing it. If you have the resources, you may have even hired a social media specialist to run your various profiles. But is your strategy really working? …
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Restaurant Done Right: What to Know about Breaking into Catering
The restaurant business is difficult to find success in, but there are many successful places facing the decision to start exporting their food. As time goes on, and a restaurant gets more popular, people will start asking about getting food deliveries and having their favorite place do parties or weddings. …
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How to Save Time and Money When Hiring Drivers
If you run a transport and logistics business, hiring the right type of drivers for your fleet is hugely important. With safe, sensible drivers absolutely essential to the safety of the products that your company delivers and also the reputation of your business, putting a lot of time and effort …
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5 Tips For Saving Energy In The Workplace
So many of us waste energy in our business premises without thinking of the alternatives. We’re throwing that money away on a massive scale, and the disappointing part is that we shouldn’t have to be in that position. It’s really easy to save energy in the workplace, and it usually …
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Make Your Business Appeal to International Audiences
There are so many things you can do to make yourself more appealing to international audiences. You need to think about what your business wants to achieve and how to facilitate that. Use these tips to help you create the perfect global brand. Ship Overseas You need to figure out …
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Simple Pointers for Professional Development
No matter your profession, it is helpful to remember that you’re only as good as your last performance. Whether you like it or not, you will always be judged based on your capabilities and according to standards set by the best of your peers. This is especially true if you’re …
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Why Investing in the Right Office Furniture is Important
There has been an increasingly popular trend in researching how the office environment influences and encourages employees to work. There have been studies showing a strong correlation between a workers’ office and how productive they are. This has significance for any CEO’s or business owners in charge of arranging their …
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Thoughtful and Innovative Presentations Motivate People To Excellence
Presentations are alive and well. They have not suffered a slow and painful death with the advent of technology. In fact, conferences and seminars are being held across the globe today in record-breaking numbers. Anyone who has attended such an event knows that the message itself is often trumped by …
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Small Business Dreams: Weighing Out the Many Pros and Cons of Self-Employment
Many of us dream of becoming our own boss and setting up a business, but there is bound to be an element of fear and uncertainty surrounding these plans, as you try to weigh up the pros and cons of the idea. Whether you follow a professional calling like Jacksonville …
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Bringing 20th Century Communication Into the Digital Age
In many ways, running a business in 2016 is very different from running a business back in, say, the 80s. The Internet and smartphones provide new channels through which marketers can reach consumers, while simultaneously streamlining communication—literally. What’s more, it’s also easier for consumers to tune out marketing appeals by …
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Understanding the Development Stages of Your Business
Much like a person, a business goes through several development stages in its lifetime. It does not matter how large or small an organization is, all companies must pass on from each of these stages. It is only once each of these stages has been completed successfully, that the business …
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Self-Employment: Things You Should Know Before Quitting Your Day Job
There will definitely be days when you seriously consider quitting your day job for any number of reasons, but if you are considering the option because you want to go it alone and start your own business, there are few things you should know before taking the plunge. Depending on …
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