E-cigarettes in the workplace – a guide for employers

Did you know that an estimated nine million adults in the US vape regularly and that the number is growing? If you’re an employer it’s likely that at least one of your employees vapes. So, what should you do about the growing trend? Continue reading “E-cigarettes in the workplace – a guide for employers”

5 Hacks to Get Money for Your Small Business

The most important role for any small business owner is managing cash flow.  Let’s face it, without bucks there would be no buck rogers, so keeping your eye on the cash coming through your business is a necessary function if you want to survive. However, there are times when you need some extra cash.  Maybe it is because you are growing too fast, or maybe you need to buy new equipment.  Either way, a little extra cash every now and then can come in handy.  Here are five hacks to help get you the money you need for your small business. Continue reading “5 Hacks to Get Money for Your Small Business”

Six Top Tips for Building a Strong Online Presence

When running a business, your online presence is key to building your brand, gaining more exposure, and increasing your customer base. With an ever-increasing number of customers looking for new brands, products and services online, it can be easy to get left behind if your company does not have a strong online presence. However, there is more to having a good online presence than simply setting up a business website and appearing on popular social networks. We’ve put together some top tips to help you seriously improve your brand’s online presence to see the best results. Continue reading “Six Top Tips for Building a Strong Online Presence”

The importance of companies offering fixed fee subscription-based SaaS solutions to law firms

Some of the most progressive firms have sought cloud computing or SaaS integration to improve their business processes. It is used to synchronize every process from project planning until project delivery and all intermediate processes to ensure minimal errors. This helps speed up work in IT companies, where deadlines are strict. SaaS integration allows organizations to work at their optimum capacity and deliver more output. Continue reading “The importance of companies offering fixed fee subscription-based SaaS solutions to law firms”

Digital Marketing Mistakes You Need to Avoid

Anyone that knows about business will be aware of the growing importance of digital marketing. With the internet and technology playing such as huge part in our personal and business lives, a lot of marketing has now moved online. This is good in many different ways, not least because it is far more cost effective for business to use online marketing methods. It is also a simple and fast way of marketing, and can have a big impact when used properly. Continue reading “Digital Marketing Mistakes You Need to Avoid”

Is Your Business taking the Right Steps to Tackle Sustainability?

With President Trump recently withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement, the subject of sustainability has once again stepped out of the realm of good business practice to the sphere of international politics and an outraged press. Whatever your opinion on this matter, one’s thing for sure: all this chatter around sustainability will have businesses wondering if they’re doing enough to tackle the size of their environmental footprint. Continue reading “Is Your Business taking the Right Steps to Tackle Sustainability?”

How to Control the Financial Side of Your Business

Are you in full control of your business’s finances? The financial affairs of an organization are a huge concern for many business owners and the longer this problem persists, the worse it becomes. However, there are many ways you can take action and start to control the financial side of your business in a much more effective way, including the tips mentioned below. Continue reading “How to Control the Financial Side of Your Business”

The Financial Industry: 3 Reasons to Explore It

There are not many small businesses and startups that focus on the financial industry, despite the market being very lucrative and competitive at the same time. With the economy growing at its present rate and the financial sector as a whole showing significant signs of progress, setting up a business in this field may lead to the great success you have been chasing. Continue reading “The Financial Industry: 3 Reasons to Explore It”

Bringing Bold Business Ideas to Life

Aspiring entrepreneurs are always on the lookout for innovative ways to transform their vision into a reality. The idea that germinates in one’s mind needs to be nurtured and nourished until it becomes a self-sustaining profitable system. The complex process of transforming an idea into a reality involves multiple steps, all within the ambit of confidence, diligence and actionable plans. Continue reading “Bringing Bold Business Ideas to Life”

Project management trends you need to implement right now

2017 shaped up to be a year full of business opportunities and trendy management tools to help create a better, more stable and more efficient business. Want to know how the project management field has changed over the past couple of months? Continue reading “Project management trends you need to implement right now”

Adopting Forward Thinking Engineering Systems

One way for an industrial business to take the initiative on helping the environment is to plan for the most efficient and eco-friendly engineering systems. Gas separation and compression are used by a wide range of industries from aviation to electronics to mining. The purpose is often to isolate different elements such as nitrogen and oxygen. Continue reading “Adopting Forward Thinking Engineering Systems”

Find Meaning in Your Work – 4 Ways to Get More from Your Career

The Society for Human Resource Management’s exhaustive employee satisfaction survey is a blueprint for managers and executives who take their employees’ happiness seriously. If you’re looking to improve the workplace environment for your subordinates, click that link and don’t come back. Continue reading “Find Meaning in Your Work – 4 Ways to Get More from Your Career”

5 Steps to Launching a Successful Trucking Company

Starting a trucking company can be an appealing business proposition, particularly if you’re interested in trucks and transportation. Chances are, if you’re reading this you’re probably thinking about launching your own trucking business and possibly wondering where to get started. There are a lot of steps involved and you’ll definitely need to do research beyond the scope of the following guide, but the five steps below should help you develop a basic strategy going forward: Continue reading “5 Steps to Launching a Successful Trucking Company”

Does Better Health Insurance get you Better Service?

This is the age-old question. Does a better service necessarily give you better results? With health insurance figuring as such an important part of your life, it’s important that you make sure you’re getting the best service possible. Whether you’re looking into medical insurance or dental insurance, this guide is going to answer that question once and for all. Continue reading “Does Better Health Insurance get you Better Service?”

How to Buy Gold Online Without Getting Duped

Gold is the best hedge for cash assets against future financial uncertainty. Gold offers an attractive way to own an asset that will always have value, even if the market comes crashing down. You can also trade with gold. To enjoy the benefits of gold, you must own the physical metal in bars, coins, or bullion. You can now buy gold online. However, scam artists are rife in the online gold dealing sphere, so you should proceed with extreme caution. Here are several tips for protecting yourself when buying gold online: Continue reading “How to Buy Gold Online Without Getting Duped”

How to Improve Your Credit Score Before Starting Your Business

Having a poor credit report can affect you in a multitude of different ways. Not only does a poor credit score limit you from borrowing more money in the future, it can also get in the way of finding great jobs, as many employers – especially those working with finances – will run a credit score on job applicants beforehand. Continue reading “How to Improve Your Credit Score Before Starting Your Business”

Top 7 Benefits of Using a Mobile CMMS System

A company management maintenance system can be a powerful tool that can maximize the efficiency of a company’s resources and work hours. Conventional systems are server-based, so it costs to maintain a hosting plan along with the costs of maintaining a web server. However, recently the advent of mobile CMMS apps has given companies the ability to access collaborative management interfaces from any device that has an internet connection. Continue reading “Top 7 Benefits of Using a Mobile CMMS System”

How to Launch Your First Software

The world of software engineering is definitely a competitive field. With demand for virtually every type of product and service, one might think that there’d be more room for good ideas to dominate in an uncontested atmosphere. This simply isn’t true. However, that doesn’t mean that even the smallest of firms or the most novice of individuals can’t force their way into this industry, develop a great product, and dominate. Continue reading “How to Launch Your First Software”

Tips for Buying a Car with Bad Credit

By the time you’re done reading this short post, you’ll see that getting a car loan is not difficult even if you have bad credit. While it’s true that the following can help anyone (no matter what their credit) secure a deal with an interest rate that won’t unduly tax their monthly budget, this is specially-designed for people with low credit scores. There are lenders who specialize in bad credit car loans, and here is what you should do before you approach them. Continue reading “Tips for Buying a Car with Bad Credit”

Tips for Keeping Your Small Business Running for 5+ Years

Have you been dreaming about opening your own business? A lot of small business owners can get wrapped up in the wonderful idea of owning their own business, without properly preparing themselves and their company for the rocky road ahead.  Since many small business owners aren’t taking the proper steps to ensure success, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently found that, “about half of all new establishments survive five years or more and about one-third survive 10 years or more. As one would expect, the probability of survival increases with a firm’s age.”  Continue reading “Tips for Keeping Your Small Business Running for 5+ Years”

How to use Videos and Podcasts in the Fitness Industry

Marketing for fitness isn’t vastly different than marketing other types of business. Your marketing strategy is still developed to generate more customers i.e. more people signing up for classes or more people booking for a PT session, and across the marketing industry, video has become a very popular marketing method.It is becoming incredibly effective in the fitness sector too. Continue reading “How to use Videos and Podcasts in the Fitness Industry”

What B2B Startups Need to Know About Business Continuity

They say all you need is a great idea and the will to develop it. This, unfortunately, is the farthest thing from the truth. A great idea will get you nowhere and, most often, a professional team and months of work invested also don’t do the trick. Continue reading “What B2B Startups Need to Know About Business Continuity”

Valuable Tips on Effective Writing During Travel

What can be more appealing than a career of a freelance travel writer? You see new places and meet new people every day, enrich your life experience with new impressions, and overall lead a fascinating lifestyle, while at the same time monetizing your writing genius. People like reading, and even the age of technology cannot stop us from getting involved in new captivating stories and articles – the only difference is that most of the reading is now done online. Continue reading “Valuable Tips on Effective Writing During Travel”

How To Do Branding Exercises Like A Pundit

The first quarter of the year has passed by and you’re working on a marketing plan. And worse, you’ll be ending the year with a crappy and failing marketing strategy again. Ouch!

But you can’t do the same strategy, the same structure and the same attack. If you wonder why you are stuck somewhere or in a dilemma of being in a plateau state, then you might need to take a closer look at how you integrate all your marketing efforts and align them to your branding exercises. Continue reading “How To Do Branding Exercises Like A Pundit”

Advice for Businesses Who Want to Invest in Commercial Property

When times are tough, the commercial property market is likely to suffer. In an economic downturn, real estate suffers heavily. Un-finished developments surrounded by cranes and barbed wire are not an un-common sight. Keeping this in mind, a large number of investors and businesses shy away from investing in commercial properties. However, keen investors can close lucrative deals after weighing all the pros and cons of a commercial property. Continue reading “Advice for Businesses Who Want to Invest in Commercial Property”

Fashion and the Music Industry

The music industry is alive and well for the female audience that craves their own voice. Artists are reaching this demographic in rapid proportions with lyrics and rhythms that speak to the hearts and minds of young and old alike. However, it’s the younger generation of women that certain genres of music appeal to more. Take, for example, artists such as Selena Gomez, Missy Elliott, and Eve. Of course, their music does not necessarily fall into one specific category. Continue reading “Fashion and the Music Industry”