With new sales and marketing tools entering the market virtually every week, businesses are ditching older solutions to make way for the new. In fact, research from InsideSales.com shows that companies in North America are already spending more than $15 billion on sales acceleration tools, while Gartner predicts that enterprise CRM alone will be...
As a business owner, your greatest stress is likely ensuring you have enough money to run your operations. Even if you have a lucrative business, there might be times that you require more financing, and that’s okay. Many business owners turn to alternative lenders to receive the additional working capital they need. Still, there...
No one likes to pay taxes, but we know they're necessary for the function of our government. We do like when they can be as low as possible. The recent passage of a new tax bill has a lot of small businesses excited — and rightfully so. But before you go about investing a tax refund...
Donna Miller is the founder of working space C3 Workplace in New Jersey. In addition to giving business owners a place to work, C3 Workplace also helps provide office support services as well. See the interview here. In this fun and informative interview with Ramon Ray they discuss: How do you take an online relationship offline and...
Cash flow is extremely critical to any business. In the absence of a proper cash flow, it may be difficult for your business to spend money on procuring materials from your supplier and holding them till they are sold to a customer for profit. In this article, we will take a look at some...
As solo business owners, we get stuck. As Seth Godin says, we are the cheapest employee. However, if you want to GROW your business, if you want to get time to focus on other things, hiring an executive assistant is important. He (or she) will take things off your plate that you don't want...
Are you investing enough in YOURSELF? If you are investing in yourself, educating yourself, ensuring you're healthy and giving to others, that's the fist way to invest in your business. By investing in yourself. Be sure to attend great events, be a member of networking groups (Adrian's Network and Shankminds are two of my favorite groups) Check out our full...
I often hear business owners ask me what are some "free" products they should check out. Free accounting solutions, free graphic design services, free logos, free websites, etc. STOP THE MADNESS. Most free products are not good for your business. Some products, such as Asana and Slack are FREE and the free version are darn good....
Video is powerful. I create several videos a month (sometimes a week). Video humanizes your brand, personalizes your content and is a joy for your community to better connect with you. A lot of the video I create, I capture and edit on my phone using the app Magisto. Magisto let's you edit video...
