Story provided by Business News Daily – Your boss is avoiding you. Your colleagues are getting chosen for special projects before you. Your company hired someone new to take over some of your job duties. You feel like your team is moving forward without you. What’s going on? While any of these scenarios on their … Continue reading
Story provided by Entrepreneur – Small and medium businesses (SMBs) are the heart of the economy, accounting for 54 percent of all U.S. sales and 66 percent of all new jobs. However, SMBs have a significant challenge compared with large corporations. Only half (54 percent) of companies with fewer than 200 employees offer traditional health benefits, compared … Continue reading
Story provided by Business News Daily – our choice of legal business structure sets the shape and path of your new venture. Each type — sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company or corporation — has advantages and disadvantages when it comes to complexity, liability, taxes, control and capital investments. “Your decision about what type of … Continue reading
Story provided by Inc. – Social media for businesses has become a blight upon the world. Companies thirst for your attention with the most asinine, pointless promoted posts, offering webinars and “white papers” that you’ll never read or care about. Their budgets and actual reach are lower, and oftentimes the attention they get is actually … Continue reading
Story provided by Levo – You’ve made it through the last round, and now all you have to do is play the waiting game. It’s a nerve-wracking time, and you may jump every time the phone rings, but keep your cool and make sure you’re not breaking any of these interview follow-up rules: 1. Thank them … Continue reading
Story provided by Harvard Business Review – Conferences are an overwhelming rush of presentations, conversations, and potential meet-ups, and it can be tough to know where to focus your time. How do you figure out which sessions to attend? Should you skip the keynote to meet an important contact? How many coffee dates are too many? … Continue reading
Story provided by The Muse – If you regularly struggle to decide between stalking a high school friend’s wedding album on Facebook or preparing for a presentation at work, you’re probably a procrastinator. And a pretty good one at that! Tell you what, that’s totally OK—we all put things off. Luckily, it doesn’t mean we … Continue reading
Story provided by 99U – No true panacea exists for the struggles and challenges of the modern working creative. But there’s one practice that comes close: walking. Neuroscientist Andrew Tate writes in a post on Canva’s blog of the many benefits of taking long walks: It will help make you more creative. A 2014 study … Continue reading
Story provided by IdeaMensch – One of the most awesome learnings from our interviews is finding out what successful entrepreneurs do to help them bring their idea to life. What are their habits? What do they do every day that truly makes an impact on their overall productivity? What actions do they take? How are their days different than … Continue reading