Success
JUNE 23, 2021
If you have a groundbreaking entrepreneurial idea floating around your head, then you might be wondering what to consider before starting a business. . Adopting this simple mentality will help: The more planning you do upfront, the better off your new business venture will be. It’s just like taking a vacation. You likely knock out all the logistical tasks first, such as reserving a rental car and booking your hotel.
Small Business Labs
JUNE 10, 2021
The venture capital firm Antler recently released The Ultimate Guide to the Creator Economy. The guide includes the map below (click to enlarge), which shows, by category, "the 220+ platforms that are empowering creators to make an income by doing what they love." We like their taxonomy, including their category descriptions: Audience curation: The platforms that are enabling creators to build foundational audiences.
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Tips From T. Marie
JUNE 17, 2021
Purchasing traditional business cards used to be one of the first official things you did when you started your own business. Today, with everything from file storage to forms being offered electronically, many business startups are abandoning the traditional business card altogether. But should they? Is it possible this paper dinosaur could be a powerful tool to grow your business?
Eat Your Career
JUNE 18, 2021
This video is an excerpt from a live Q&A session with Chrissy Scivicque, Career Coach & Corporate Trainer. The full video is available in the Career Success Library. A participant in our recent Q&A (Ask the Career Coach) session asked for some help with the following: We’re looking for resources on being more accurate and working not to miss details.
Speaker: Jennifer Hill
Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.
Ideas.Ted
JUNE 10, 2021
In their book Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle , coauthors (and twin sisters) Emily and Amelia Nagoski reveal that completing the stress cycle — finding a way to let our bodies know we’re no longer threatened or in danger and we can stop being stressed — can be the most effective way to avoid burnout and emotional exhaustion.
Small Business CEO
JUNE 3, 2021
For the past few decades, the internet has totally dominated so many people’s day to day lives. It’s transformed the way we work and live. If you aren’t currently using the internet as part of your marketing strategy, instead opting for more traditional forms of advertising, then you’re missing a trick. Here’s why… 1. Your competitors are doing it!
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Small Business Labs
JUNE 1, 2021
Influencer marketing has become a popular way for companies to promote their brands. According to Influencer Marketing Hub, brands are expected to spend $13.8 billion on influencer marketing programs in 2021. As their chart below shows (click to enlarge), influencer marketing spend has been rapidly increasing. Of course, you can't have influencer marketing programs without influencers. These are people who have an online audience that they monetize by getting paid to pro
Stephanie LH Calahan
JUNE 29, 2021
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Eat Your Career
JUNE 1, 2021
As a professional, you have hopes for your career. When things don’t go your way, it’s easy to get stuck in disappointment and regret. If you’ve ever been laid off or terminated, passed over for a promotion or denied a job you thought was perfect, you know how hard it can be to bounce back. But staying in that negative space will only prolong the problem and potentially create a downward spiral of destruction.
Ideas.Ted
JUNE 11, 2021
This article first appeared in Yale Environment 360. . A road running through Accra, Ghana’s capital, looks like any other blacktop. Yet what most drivers don’t realize is that the asphalt under them contains a slurry of used plastics — shredded and melted bags, bottles and snack wraps — that otherwise were destined for a landfill. The impetus for many similar road projects underway in Ghana was an ambitious plan announced by President Akufo-Addo in 2018.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
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Small Business CEO
JUNE 28, 2021
Did you know that online virtual events have their roots back in the early 00s? While business juggernauts such as IBM and Cisco were, at the time, leading the way for virtual events, many smaller businesses were a little slow on the uptake and the importance of this revolutionary and immersive platform. Fast forward to 2021, and virtual events are not only considered the norm, but a standard practice across a multitude of industries.
Success
JUNE 23, 2021
As children, we learn about the world by making associations to remember words and shapes and names of things. It helps us make sense of our environment. It starts simply enough: We associate the color red with apples or the word “no” with the feeling of disappointment. The idea of red apples and disappointing two-letter words becomes cemented in our minds.
Small Business Labs
JUNE 15, 2021
CB Insights is a technology analyst firm covering emerging technologies and tech startups. They just released a creator economy market map , which is below (click to enlarge). CB Insights points out that digital content creators have had to cobble together various tools to build and monetize their activities. This is quickly changing. Key quote: " a slew of startups are looking to disrupt the way creators make content, develop their audiences, or grow their businesses be
Productivityist
JUNE 21, 2021
Our energy levels ebb and flow through the day. There will be periods when you’re drained and feeling unproductive, so it’s important to figure out how to be productive when you’re tired. I’ve made no secret about my night owl tendencies over the years. The sweet spot for my productivity is the early afternoon, with a second wind coming in the later part of the evening.
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Eat Your Career
JUNE 30, 2021
This video is an excerpt from a live training session with Chrissy Scivicque, Career Coach & Corporate Trainer. The full video (“Building Career Resilience”) is available in the Career Success Library. The article below summarizes the video content. I like the rubber band analogy, because it really makes a lot of sense, and it’s a great visual when we’re talking about something like resilience, which is actually a pretty abstract topic on the surface.
Ideas.Ted
JUNE 21, 2021
Anjali Sud , 37, is the CEO of Vimeo, a global video posting and sharing platform with over 850 employees, 200 million users and a staggering 350,000 videos added every single day. She was named CEO in 2017, and Vimeo became a publicly traded company last month. In a recent LinkedIn Live discussion with TED, she admitted, “From the time I was a teenager, I dreamed of being a CEO.” Here is some of her advice on how you can get to the corner office from where you are.
Small Business CEO
JUNE 10, 2021
Investing in Section 12J has been quite popular among South Africans for a while now. Why wouldn’t it be? It’s the most effective tax saving option that allows small and medium businesses to grow by working towards increasing their equity finance access. Since the Section 12J has been written into the Tax Act, SMMEs have seen an increase in investors, since those have been given the opportunity to achieve a 100% tax deduction by making those investments.
Success
JUNE 26, 2021
Every day we make dozens of little choices that either benefit us by asserting our ideas or diminish us because we hesitate in making our views or desires known. Sometimes it seems easier to go with the flow to avoid potential conflict. But the truth is that letting people walk all over you can increase feelings of stress and anxiety, and it might eventually lessen your feelings of self-worth and play to your insecurities.
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Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.
Small Business Labs
JUNE 29, 2021
Cabana rents custom-built Ford Transit vans that include beds, storage, bathrooms, and Internet access. Their tagline is "a hotel that travels with you" They're hoping to tap into the large and growing number of #Vanlifers. These are digital nomads who travel in vehicles that have been converted into roaming residences. In the digital nomad study we collaborated with MBO Partners on, we found 1.9 million Americans describe themselves as VanLifers. The LA
Bonnie Low Kramen
JUNE 1, 2021
By Jeremy Spake and Bonnie Low-Kramen. May 26, 2021. Employees who work from home are choosing to take “remote” literally. They are moving to new cities and new qualities of life, as nature may become the new corner office. So…when they choose to move, what happens to their compensation? Make no mistake – a workplace revolution is happening right now and these types of conversations, decisions, and new policies are being formulated right now.
All Things Admin
JUNE 23, 2021
Many believe that the terms “procedures” and “systems” are interchangeable, but that’s not exactly true. While they do work together to save you time, effort, and stress, they are not the same. Procedures show you, step-by-step, how to perform a specific task – for example, completing an expense report or submitting a check request. A system contains all the information you need to handle the accounting functions for your job.
Ideas.Ted
JUNE 15, 2021
Great career advice is hard to come by, no matter where you are in your life. Discover powerful insights to navigate challenges and help you take control of your professional life with Zig Zag , Manoush Zomorodi’s business podcast. Listen to it on Apple Podcasts. . Not long ago, I got an email asking for advice. This person was negotiating a new contract to host a podcast.
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Small Business CEO
JUNE 6, 2021
Have you ever stopped to think of the number of small businesses in your locality? Every locality has its fair share of small business entities as they play an integral role in contributing to the overall net revenue. Apart from acting as an essential medium for promoting culture and tradition, businesses such as personal injury lawyers in Lakeland also maintain society’s ecosystem and encourage the spirit of entrepreneurship for future generations.
Success
JUNE 18, 2021
My oldest daughter Madison was excited to be interviewed for this article because, as she so bluntly put it, she’s had “a very unusual upbringing.”. You see, she was raised by a coach (me)—a dad who spent many professional hours working with CEOs and entrepreneurs learning how to be better leaders and how to make their businesses run more efficiently.
Small Business Labs
JUNE 8, 2021
Platform Professional's Platforms and Digital Nomads covers online platforms supporting digital nomads. Key quote: "Platforms may not have created the phenomenon of the digital nomad, but they are making it easier to become one." The article focuses on the challenges digital nomads face and how platforms help digital nomads overcome them.
Go Burrows
JUNE 6, 2021
After nearly a decade as the Executive Assistant, Producer, and “Chief of Simon Sinek ,” New York Times Best-Selling author and TED celebrity , Monique Helstrom has had unparalleled experiences and gained unique perspectives from thought leaders, executives, celebrities, educators, military, and the general workforce that this world depends on. This bonus episode is from one of our weekly Leader Assistant Zoom Chats where Monique joined us to talk about all things communication.
Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson
Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.
Worxbee
JUNE 21, 2021
“My door is always open” is something that is commonly said, but is it really true? For many companies, the pandemic has revealed whether they really had an open-door policy or healthy team dynamics in the first place. Working virtually has been a new phenomenon for many and has presented several challenges. Problems arise when questioning how to cultivate this policy in a virtual environment.
Ideas.Ted
JUNE 29, 2021
When people are trying out a new therapist, they often tend to put the therapist in the driver’s seat during their initial sessions. But this isn’t quite right — the client should be an equal partner too. What else should people keep in mind during that process? And how can they figure out if a therapist is right for them? To answer these questions, Brianne Patrice , executive director of Sad Girls Club, a nonprofit dedicated to destigmatizing mental health and wellness in the Black
Small Business CEO
JUNE 9, 2021
The number of online buyers is expected to reach 2.14 billion in 2021. And that’s great news for entrepreneurs that are thinking of launching their own business. Even though the competition can be fierce, the opportunities to make sales and leverage digital business tools allow almost anyone to create a store and find their audience. photo credit: Adomas Aleno / Unsplash.
Success
JUNE 28, 2021
Intelligence, talent and charm are great, but more often than not these aren’t what separate the wealthiest among us from the poorest. Instead, the differences are in our daily habits. Do you realize that these subconscious, second-nature activities make up 40 percent of our waking hours? That means that two out of every five minutes, all day and every day, we operate on autopilot.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
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