5 Tips for Developing Your B2B Sales
Your B2B sales campaign is all about being able to attract prospects and keep them there. But winning customer loyalty is easier said than done when the majority of businesses…
How Slowing Down Saved This Flower Startup From Wilting
When David Bladow and Matthew Schwab decided to build their floral delivery startup, BloomThat, they thought they’d be helping forgetful guys like themselves scramble to send bouquets to their loved…
4 Signs That Outsourcing Can Be Your Startup’s Best Friend
Read the next line carefully if you’re running a startup or any business: Time is your enemy, and you’re not nearly as good at everything as you think you are. Even…
How To Commission Your First Virtual Machine In AWS: A Primer
If you need a compute resource quickly, but you don’t have any experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), this primer will help you get started. (Click image for larger view…
The Best Start to Anything Is Knowing Who You Are and Where You’re Going
I’ve spent my lifetime trying to figure out life, women, business and myself. Much of it is still a mystery. And it seems the more I learn about a subject,…
5 Steps to Generating High Quality Leads on LinkedIn
There are plenty of social media platforms you can use to generate leads from — Facebook, Twitter and Instagram just to name a few — and then there is LinkedIn.…
How Outdated Tech Wastes Billions of Dollars
Unwieldy record in a workplace hinders capability and formula in hidden, vast financial waste for U.S. businesses, according to a new survey. Why? Technology does not fit an organization’s needs,…
The State Of Data Engineers
Demand for data engineers is on the rise in enterprise, particularly in those organizations that aspire to be the next Uber or Airbnb. Here’s a look at this quickly…
6 Ways You’re Decreasing Profitability Without Realizing It
6 Ways You’re Decreasing Profitability Without Realizing It Check your operations and see if you’re making any of these profitability-crushing mistakes. You might be in business because you’ve always had…
7 Dev Team Secrets IT Managers Need To Know
In the mind of many managers, the software development group is a black box filled with creatures from myth. You throw in a specification document and after a suitable period…
3 Common Mistakes Productive People Make When Taking A Sick Day
This story first appeared on The Muse, a Web destination with exciting job opportunities and expert career advice. I’ll be honest. For someone who’s such a big advocate of taking…
3 Simple Ways To Become A Thought Leader In 15 Minutes Or Less
You may think that to be a thought leader, you have to provide answers to life’s mysteries, be a TED Talk speaker, or pioneer a technology that turns the world…
5 Ways New Parents Can Better Balance Their Business And Family Life
For entrepreneurs who have dedicated their lives to scaling their companies, the prospect of becoming a parent changes everything. When you first started out, your business was likely your “baby.”…
6 Ways To Maximize Your Productivity In A Home Office
Working from home brings with it a unique set of benefits in the form of flexible hours, a more peaceful work environment, better work/home balance, greater autonomy, and the absence…
Leaders Must Inspire AND Shape Networks
In a classic Harvard Business Review article, Abraham Zaleznick contrasted two very different styles of authority. Managers he argued, take a rational approach and seek order and control. Leaders, on…
Stressed at Work? Tell It to Social Media
Bottom Line: Tweets and other posts reveal that employees experience varying levels of stress throughout the workweek, and weekends aren’t necessarily a reprieve. Whether it’s deadlines to meet or deals…
Sending a Right Message on Risk Management
Without one chairman in an classification obliged for handling third-party risk, companies face a critical separator to achieving effective third-party risk management, according to a new study. The study, “Tone…
Seven keys to a successful global HCM implementation
Implementing a human capital management system can be a large and complex undertaking, no matter whether you are a small company operating in one country or a multinational corporation employing…
3 Tools to Build a Leadership Pipeline
Leaders are difficult to find, leaving many companies scrambling when a higher ranking employee decides to leave. The Global Workforce Leadership survey from Workplace Trends found that almost half of…
Rocket Launch Yourself to Celebrity Status Online
Craving online popularity? Want to get recognized as a top industry thought leader? Not so fast. Although this branding shift is completely doable, one wrong move and you’ll look desperate. If you’re craving…