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3 Tips to Keep Your Employees Happy
"I'd add one more: empowerment. When you empower your employees to make more decisions, you not only make them feel like the intelligent adults you hired, but they often take personal responsibility for exercising their empowerment intelligently. The final added benefit, is that it frees you up as the business owner. Tim Ferris talked about this perfectly in his 4-Hour Work Week book. When he had a supplements business, he empowered his employees to give refunds, without checking with management, for up to $300 (I think, I'm quoting this from memory). He said that it made his life significantly better, and reduced the amount of silly disputes that his attention was being drawn to. Obviously, you as the business owner needs to determine your level of trust, but I think even a little bit will help your sanity."27 Small Town Business Ideas That Are Actually Good
"I'm really impressed with how many different activities she's involved in. I also like how she called out using proprietary web platforms versus open platforms like WordPress. I've helped a lot of businesses out with transitioning from proprietary systems over to WordPress. It's always a pain because the proprietary systems are usually designed very poorly. I think you were able to get a lot of great information out of her. Thanks for sharing :-)"Did Google Ruin Blog Comments? - YouTube
"I would say it is a symptom of a bigger problem. Google's system improved the quality of the internet overall. Before Google, search engines ranked sites based on keyword stuffing. At least with Google coming in, the spam is now relegated to the comment areas rather than spammy, keyword stuffed articles sitting at the top of the search engines. On top of all of that, the links in the comment sections are largely useless because they are nofollowed This was an attribute that Google introduced to help remove the value of links in places where the author of a website didn't want to formally endorse a website with an editorially earned link, such as a comment. The majority of the comment spam you receive isn't people trying to pull one over on you, it's people that are using automated software to find auto-approve blogs and followed link blogs. Your site is just collateral damage in that search. The way the automated software works is by posting a comment to your site, then checking right away to see if the link is there, and if it is, is it a followed link. They then create huge lists of websites that are auto approved and followed and sell them so people can spam those sites. Spamming is business and there are many people making lots of money from it. I'd say that overall, it's really not Google's fault, just like telemarketing calls aren't the phonebook's fault. Ultimately, human greed is at fault. People willing to trash the quality of the internet for easy money."« previous1 next »
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Ignoring Workplace Harassment Could Destroy Your Business
"It's sad for me to hear from people in my family about the amounts of unchecked harassment they've experienced. It's easy to assume it's rare when it doesn't happen to you all that often, but if you just open up your ears and listen to others, you'll be astounded at the stories they have. I'm glad that this issue is getting more attention than it has in the past. Harassment has taken down a lot of seemingly wholesome people recently, and it's only going to continue now that victims are finally having a voice. "