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Anyone can hand out a raise, but not everyone can hone in on the things employees really want and deliver them. Here are 10 ideas for incentives any company can afford, which will go a long way to keeping your employees motivated and your workforce productive... Read More

A crisis communication plan should have a prominent place on your to-do list. Though I actually think "crisis communication" is a misnomer, because it suggests your way of keeping clients informed has gone into panic mode. The whole idea behind having a plan is to prevent such a breakdown from ever Read More

We look at the success of others and assume, if we follow their methods, we will achieve the same. Sometimes this works, but often times it leaves us frustrated and wondering why we are not partaking in the same success or why the methods of others don’t work for us.
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Each new venture would have four evenly divided quarters and, at the end, a startup would know definitively whether it had won or lost. Unfortunately, there isn’t a giant, well-branded Jumbotron that lights up to signal that the founder should pack up her cleats and exit the Superdome. Read More

McDonald's is having problems. Some of them have to do with speed..or lack of it. Franchisees of this fast-food empire have been complaining loudly for a while now about the lack of speed, and other things. If I was a McDonald’s franchise owner, I’d be complaining loudly too. Read More

Running a small business is not as easy as eating cake. This is because small businesses can face several types of challenges during operation, and one of such challenges is insurance. The standard liability for most businesses fall under liability and protection for employees. Read More

Effective marketing requires more and more content as different platforms become available. It can exhaust your creativity and monopolize your time. As a small business owner, you can’t afford the overhead required to hire a full time team of marketers to cover all the bases. What can you do? Read More

A consistent brand helps to build a sense of community, fostering customer connection and loyalty. How to maintain your brand consistency Read More

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors Read More

THE MOST important lesson you can learn towards your success is how to be a person of action. Know why?

It’s because you can have the greatest idea in the world – but if you don’t act on it, then it’s useless.

An average idea is more valuable in the hands of a doer, than a genius idea in the Read More