Entrepreneur Time Management: How To Control and Manage Where You Spend Your Time

How To Best Manage Time From Time Management Consultant Tor Refsland

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]Time is an abstract concept. It’s not something we can see or touch, but it has a tremendous impact on our lives. We talk about spending time and wasting time as if it is some invisible form of currency that we can use to reach our goals and to get the...

3 Unconscious and Blind Biases of the Hiring Process

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]Hiring the right people is crucial to the success of your business. It is also one of the most difficult tasks of business operations. We are taught that things like the amount of education, the prestige of the school, the applicant’s past roles and specifics about their former responsibilities are what...

keep devices safe while traveling

3 Effective Ways to Keep Your Devices Safe While on the Road

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]Thanks to cloud technology, professionals can connect to their files from anywhere, using a laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Whether they’re spending the morning working at a coffee shop or checking email in an airplane 30,000 feet above the Earth’s surface, the ability to get extra work done is crucial for today’s...

How Leveraging Expertise and New Technology Will Make You More Successful in 2016

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]As we enter the New Year, many business owners are taking a look back to evaluate their sales and efforts over the last 12 months and creating a plan for the next twelve. This includes looking for new paths and avenues to find additional business as well as strategies to strengthen...

Trademark Protection: How to Protect Your Business IP

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]If you created an innovative product, unlike any currently on the market, you would most likely go to work securing a patent. But what about the intangible? Have you ever considered the importance of legally securing your intellectual property – words, names, logos or symbols? As it turns out, trademark protection...

Sam’s Club SVP of Merchandise Business Services on the Importance of Supporting Small Business

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] We all know Sam's Club as the discount membership club where members can shop and get great value on bulk items for our home and everyday use. But what many of us don't know is that Sam's Club is quickly becoming one of the greatest resources supporting small business owners and...

5 Ways to Maximize the Value of Virtual Assistants in Your Business

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]Whether they are referred to as freelancers, telecommuters or home based workers, virtual assistants are people who are contracted to provide services from a remote location. Over the last few years, the role of the Virtual Assistant has grown in prominence. Integrating virtual assistance services in the work force has proven to...

How Sally's Baking Addiction Survived a Website Crash

How to Survive a Website Crash on the Busiest Day of the Year

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Sally McKenney's entrepreneurial journey starts just like many. Back in December of 2011, she was looking for something to fill her free time, so took her passion for baking and writing and started a blog. Fast forward four years and she has quit her full-time job, has over 250,000K viewers to her...

3 Ways to Improve Your Business’s Productivity by Going Paperless

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Movies and comic strips have often used an image of a frazzled boss piling papers onto an employee’s desk, demanding that he “have those reports back on my desk by tomorrow morning.” In reality, as business demands increase, work becomes more efficient if the amount of paperwork decreases. Gone are the...