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By Editorial TeamAdvice, Securitycustomer data, cybersecurity, data privacy

4 Tips to Ensure Customer Data Privacy for Your Online Business

Online privacy is hard to come by these days, with companies using every opportunity possible to gather and use your private data. It is no surprise that customers are more concerned and cautious about their online privacy than ever before. If you run an online business, you need to create a customer data privacy policy....

By Editorial TeamAdviceremote work, remote work management, remote working

Proven Strategies to Efficiently Manage a Remote Team

It's no surprise that remote work will persist way into the future, especially with most professions being able to collaborate and achieve office levels of productivity virtually. For example, a recent remote work survey by the PWC revealed that business executives expected a massive 55% of their employees to work from home at least one...

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By Editorial TeamAdvicetech

Global Survey: US Small Biz Owners Most Likely to Delay Adopting New Tech

There are 31.7 million small businesses in the United States. And we constantly hear about the good they do for local communities and the national economy overall. Our society reveres them as an integral part and supports them as such. And yet, in comparison to other countries, they’re laggards in regards to technology adoption. According...

By Sandeep BabuAdvicebusiness learnings, business lesson

Critical Business Lessons from Brian Hess And Scott Simons to Go Big

Starting a business is easy - you just have to submit a few forms, get the required permit or license, and offer legitimate products/services. But making your business a success is altogether a different story. Leading people, making mistakes, feeling overwhelmed, and being criticized are a few of the many business challenges you have to...

By Editorial TeamAdvice

Four Ways Business Owners Can Attract New Employees and Retain Existing Talent

By Joe Camberato - CEO National Business Capital. The Great Resignation has placed a particular hard burden on small businesses that often struggle to attract employees. Already facing supply chain issues, businesses can hardly sustain the one-two punch that occurs when they’re unable to fill a new position or keep inventory in stock. So now...

By Sandeep BabuAdvicecustomer retention, customers, solo biz owners, solopreneur

What Thryv’s Chief Customer Officer Can Tell You About Customer Retention

When you start your solo business, your first priority is to increase profitability. And customer retention helps you do that. What’s more, loyal customers also get you more word of mouth referrals. Interested in exploring proven strategies for customer retention? Grant Freeman who is working as a chief customer officer at Thryv has recently shared...

By Sandeep BabuAdvicesolo biz owners, solopreneur, successful solopreneurs

Amilya Antonetti- Leading Human Behavior Expert- Shares Nuggets to Be a Successful Solopreneur

Starting a solo business is one thing, but making it a success is another. From marketing to customer handling to accounting, you have to be good at multiple tasks to succeed in your endeavor. Also, you have to practice a lot of self-discipline to separate work and home life. If you fail to do...

By Editorial TeamAdvice, Lifestyleprocrastination

Discover (Exactly) Why You Keep Procrastinating and Avoiding, Even Though You Wish You’d Stop

By Erin Pheil, founder of The MindFix Group. As entrepreneurs, we regularly run into roadblocks along our journeys. Our job is to identify them, determine strategies to move past them, then move past them. Quite linear and logical, eh? With strategic challenges, this simple formula of "find a fix, and do it" is how we move forward and grow, incrementally. For example, are...

By Editorial TeamAdvice, Lifestyle

How Do Entrepreneurs Manage To Go Through The Stress

By Daglar Cizmeci, serial investor, founder and CEO with over 20 years of industry experience in emerging tech, aviation, logistics and finance. Stress is no stranger in the business world. The way entrepreneurs handle their stress is totally subjective based on its nature and cause. This is why, as an entrepreneur, it is important to...

By Editorial TeamAdvice, Smart Womenamerican dream for immigrants, business growth

Does The American Dream Still Exist? The American Dream Depends on Your Perception

By Saloua Ibaline, business strategist, author and digital marketing coach. When I first arrived in New York City in 2005, I was 21 years old. My eyes were full of sparks and my head was full of dreams. I was dedicated to success. Nothing could’ve stopped me from achieving my vision of the American dream....