Tag: business
How to create a KILLER presentation
Putting together a great presentation isn’t necessarily easy. It takes time to develop a stellar concept, find the right words, and follow the red thread. As much as public speaking is a skill that can be acquired & improved through practice, the right presentation material is not a skill. Here are some simple (unspoken) rules & [...]
Focus Can Change the World
We all like control. We like to control the TV remote, our finances, and our businesses. I would like to control the outcome of football games. What’s nice is that we get to control what we pay attention to, where we put our focus. We forget sometimes with all the information available to us through [...]
7 Things Every Young Entrepreneur Can Learn From Ultra Successful Rapper Drake
For those of you who have been living in an Igloo in the abandoned (and some say haunted) town of Grytviken in Antarctica, Aubrey “Drake” Graham took the hip-hop world by storm 3 years ago after signing a recording contract with Lil Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment. Since then, he has released two very successful albums and dozens [...]
8 Accounting Pitfalls That Start-up Businesses Can Avoid
You’re probably in an accounting mess if you’re reading this article. I mean, no entrepreneur dreams about crunching numbers. No, we dream of creating the next iPhone, the marketing, the office design, the company culture, and recruiting talent. But who would willingly spend their time thinking about invoicing and tax, right? It’s only when the [...]
How a Well Designed Office Can Boost Your Business
Over the years, more and more businesses are realising how important the office décor and atmosphere is to boost employee productivity, morale and happiness. A good office design can create a calming, dynamic working environment which in turn will benefit your staff. Improving the interior design can lead to increases in office productivity and new research has shown that getting your workers involved [...]
Choosing the Best Corporate Credit Cards for Your Business
Business credit cards are useful for people looking to manage their expenses. Companies can also give these cards to trusted members of staff as a mark of reliability, providing them with the convenience of being able to buy items and services without the hassle of collecting receipts and filling in expense claims. These cards tend [...]
Top Tips for using LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter for Business
With the global economy as it is, new methods of social marketing are becoming well known, with many new businesses and marketing companies embracing it as a way to spread the word in a more reliable, consistent, and cost-effective way. While older values such as trust are just as important as always, newer trends in [...]
10 Ways to Make Your Business More Social Today
When transitioning from a traditional marketing plan to an online social media marketing plan, a B2B company will both need to alter minor and major changes. Major changes include alterations to your CRM software, Lead generation systems and retargeting of old clients. Consider integrating social media into your systems as you make your way down [...]
How to Boost Your Creativity in Business…
Creativity is a hard-to-define thing that eludes many of us precisely when we need it the most. So where does it come from? The great and the good have tried to answer this very question, as the quotations below demonstrate: “Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.” DonatellaVersace (fashion designer) “But out of limitations comes [...]
Can Your Small Business Survive a Eurozone Disaster?
After the banking disaster in 2008 the United States government stepped in and required many US banks to undergo what they called “stress tests.” In a very simplistic sense, these stress tests were simply glorified what-if scenario analysis. The purpose of the stress tests were to determine whether the banks could survive without government intervention [...]
