Most leaders understand that data-driven business processes let you see problems before they have a chance to occur so you don’t have to scramble to design solutions when they do. In the same way, providing proactive customer service that invests in the customer experience…
One of the great advantages of working for yourself is the freedom it gives you. When you’re a business owner, you get to make your own rules and set your own hours. Unfortunately, in today’s “always-on” culture, this can also mean that you get to suffer from crippling stress and exhaustion…
For small-business owners, failure isn’t an option — it’s a reality.
For example, consider the roughly 733,000 businesses that launched in the U.S. in the year leading up to March 2016. Only about half made it to March 2021, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics…
Whether it’s a sports team, a group of laborers, or a work team in a corporate office, a key goal of any team leader is to create a cohesive unit where the team functions as one. Strong leadership can help make this goal a reality. But even the strongest leader will often struggle...
Growing a business sucks in cash, that’s the first law of business gravity created by business author Verne Harnish. And it is that cash is the most important thing to keep a business in operation because you could fail in your operations, systems, equipment, marketing but, without cash…
Selecting SEO software is not easy — it can be quite expensive, and you have to make sure a given tool will satisfy your business needs and provide you with complex, in-depth stats on how your and your competitor’s websites are performing. A good SEO software app should keep track of various…
Like a great many, you may be an entrepreneur whose ultimate goal is to create a company worth selling, and why not? I have both sold businesses and consulted with individuals who had their net worth increase ten-fold in the course of such a transaction. It is, however, both a stressful…