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Increasing Productivity: 6 Ways to Help Your Tech Employees
Guest post by Lionel Bryant Every small business thrives on its employees’ productivity, no matter what they do, because productivity is directly proportional with success and profit. The more your...
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Your Small Business Blog is Best Served Fresh (with a side of relevancy)
Guest post by Nathan Jeans The trite business blog has been consigned firmly to the murky depths of online marketing past. There is a new dawn; it’s bright and it smells fresh, like a newly mowed...
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How Marketing and HR Go Hand in Hand
Guest post by Greg Bentley More and more forward thinking companies are being greatly influenced by marketing strategies and strengths in all aspects of their business. Marketers possess the strengths...
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4 Tips to Learn from Big Business CEOs
Guest post by Anna Crowe We all want to achieve success, whether it’s becoming the next globetrotter or engineering a new sock design for babies. And while ‘success’ is defined differently with each...
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NMX Insights: Reinventing Your Small Business in 3 Steps
Antonio Centeno is not your typical business man. He grew up in a small town in Texas, went into the military and then found himself in the fashion industry. What? This man is great at reinventing...
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Brick & Mortar Businesses: First Impressions with Signage
Guest post by Shabbir Moosabhoy If you have ever read basic materials on psychology, you are no doubt aware that people tend to make up their minds about someone or something within the first 30...
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Apple Maps Optimization for Small Business
While many small business owners scrutinize their Google+ Local profile, Apple Maps gets little, if any, attention. Don’t get me wrong; Google+ Local deserves the devotion since Google Maps is the...
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7 Ways to Boost Small Business Morale
While all business owners want their business to be run well and respected, Gallup tells us only 13 percent of employees actually like going to work and want to help their organization improve. It is...
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Failing Forward: Turning Past Mistakes into Future Successes
By Jared Bodnar Most small business owners will be the first to admit that they aren’t perfect and have made plenty of mistakes in their time. They will also acknowledge that they’ve felt the pain of...
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Gen X vs Gen Y Employee Motivation and Productivity
Guest post by Carrie Wynne According to Sylvia Ann Hewlett’s research, published in the Harvard Business Review, Google does a pretty fantastic job in showing through their workplace design and through...
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Tips To Get Your Small Business’ Outstanding Invoices Paid
By Rieva Lesonsky If you’ve got a bunch of outstanding invoices and you’re running low on cash flow, I hate to tell you, but you’ve got no one to blame but yourself. There are so many tools out there...
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How to Find the Best Location for Your Business
By Rieva Lesonsky Have you always pictured your business located in your city’s charming downtown, with plenty of walk-in traffic to keep your employees busy? Or maybe an office park location in a...
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6 Simple Small Business Organization Tips
Small businesses organization is crucial to success. It’s not an opinion, it’s a statement of fact! For a small business to blossom, the owner and employees need to have a strong understanding of...
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Small Business Owner Tips: How to Talk to the Media
By Rieva Lesonsky You’ve just found out some exciting news: You’re going to have your first television or radio interview. Being interviewed on television, radio or for a webcast is a big opportunity...
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How to Choose a Domain Name for Your Website
By Rieva Lesonsky If you have a business, you must have a website. Some companies will tell you it’s not necessary, you can run use their platforms instead. You can’t. You need to build your own site,...
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What Your Internet Reputation Tells Customers About Your Brand
Guest post by Debbie Allen Your internet reputation can greatly impact the way your brand is perceived. And if something goes awry, this can, in effect, undo all the work that has gone into branding...
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Get Your Ducks in a Row: Small Biz Startup Tips Part 2
Guest post by George Peters In part one of our series on starting a small business, we covered being passionate about your business and also building a viable business model around that passion, as...
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The Minimalist’s Guide to Small Business Efficiency
Guest post by Megan Totka We’re all welcoming the economic upswing for small businesses. There’s noticeable improvement — in May of 2013, small business saw a sales increase of 10 percent, which was...
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Give your Small Business the Illusion of Size and Depth
Guest post by Lucy Harper Running a small business can be very rewarding, both personally and financially. But one aspect of being a business owner that can intimidate is the “small” in small...
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Customer Delight from Start to Finish
Guest post by Jake Magleby It’s shocking how many businesses can fail just because they don’t know how to provide adequate customer service. What these business owners must not realize is that business...
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Protect Your Small Business by Using Employment Agreements
Guest post by Rieva Lesonsky When you’re ready to hire employees there are some major decisions you have to make first. Don’t confuse hiring full-time (or even part-time) employees with independent...
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How to Close a Sale When Competing with Big Brands
The war between small business and corporate giants is a familiar tale. Farmers Market vs. Walmart Local Boutique vs. The Gap Small Town Florist vs. 1-800-Flowers Every day there are small battles...
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3 Small Business Tips to Own Your Summer
Between the months of June and August, it happens daily. You take a break from your business, hop on social media and suddenly you’re wrapped in a fantasy world created by photos of beaches, airplanes,...
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Your Email Marketing Road Map
If you were marooned on a deserted island, what would you want with you? We’ve all heard some version of this question and given different versions of our answer. [My answers: a suitcase trunk large...
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Open Enrollment: Don’t Write off Vapor Inhaling Millennials
By Tracie Rollins On November 15, 2014, open enrollment begins and small businesses can select health care options for their employees online using the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP)...
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