Digital Marketing: The Competitive Edge for Startups in Today’s Market

Digital marketing can give any start-up business a competitive edge in a highly fast-paced and aggressive landscape. It can effectively overcome challenges and establish a foothold in any market. In this article, there are a couple of ways to leverage digital marketing to get the edge needed to ensure a startup business’s success. How To …

Boost Your Launch Success: The 10 Must-Dos Before Starting a Business

10 Things Every Startup Business Must Do Establishing a startup business is an exhilarating journey for entrepreneurs since it heralds endless possibilities and promises of a better future. However, the path of starting a business is not an easy one. It is riddled with challenges, legal hoops, and certain processes. On the bright side, to …

How to Be Respectful of Other People’s Time

The first Monday of each month, I dust off a favorite post from the Bennis Inc Blog archives and give you another chance to enjoy the wit and wisdom that’s been shared. Enjoy this month’s treasure – and if it inspires you – be sure to share it with family and friends! Time. It's the one commodity …

Winning Your Digital Battle: Top 7 Digital Marketing Mistakes You Need to Avoid

This guest contribution comes from Flexisource. Flexisource IT provides a gateway to top-caliber fully managed IT teams dedicated to servicing Australian businesses and startups to scale up and grow rapidly. In this fast-paced digital era, digital marketing is a vital aspect of business. It enables your brand to reach out, engage with your audience, and …

How to Be Respectful of Other People’s Time

Time. It's the one commodity of which we cannot make more. There are some creative ways we can maximize the use of our time, protect it, and even outsource tasks on our to-do list to conserve our time for where we really want to spend it, but the fact of the matter remains. We cannot …

Managing Anxiety as an Entrepreneur and Business Owner

I'm an anxious person by nature. This began at a really young age for me. I was quite literally scared of the wind. At no older than six or seven years old, I remember agonizing every morning over the weather forecast where I would wait for the meteorologist to share the predicted miles per hour …

My Time Management Secrets for Balancing 25+ Client Accounts at Once

It might sound crazy - oh and believe me, some days,  it is - but I average 25+ active client accounts on any given month. If you throw in the various one-time projects and things that go beyond client retainers, then that number can grow to be much higher. Now for the kicker. I also …

3 Tips for Improving the Speed of Your Website (Contribution from Nick Galov)

The following post comes to us from Nick Galov, Community Manager at Hosting Tribunal. In this article Nick shares insight and expertise to help businesses improve the speed of their websites.  Everybody knows you need strong content to have a successful website. However, content is not everything. You also need good website performance or else nobody …

How to Master Customer Support for your Small Business (Contribution from Keith Coppersmith)

The following post comes to us from Keith Coppersmith, an experienced business consultant who serves small businesses and startups. How to Master Customer Support for your Small Business Did you know that 51% of customers stop doing business after just one negative experience? Research further shows that businesses lose over $62 billion every year on poor …

Stop Making Project Management Complicated

As a business owner, project management is right at the top of the list of core services I provide to my clients. I ensure the deadlines we set any myriad of communication projects, are met and that at any given moment, I know the status of the project and who holds the ball to move …