RECENT ARTICLES
Is There Hope for Small Businesses after Bankruptcy
Filing for bankruptcy might seem like the end of the world, but it doesn’t have to be. Many small business owners manage to bounce back and rebuild their dream with a bit of help. However, that isn't to say that it will be easy (otherwise everyone would be doing it). The biggest challenge you will...
Four Key Lessons on Bringing A Product from Design to Market: August Graube’s Journey with Fort Boards
Remember how much fun it was to play with forts when you were a kid? Regardless of whether you grew up in the city or the suburbs, you no doubt found ways to use the resources around to build your own private little escape. Well, August Graube, founder of Fort Boards, wanted to recreate that...
Owning a Small Business Leave You up at Night? 4 Tips for A Better Night’s Sleep
A large and growing number of Americans are choosing self-employment and owning a small business over traditional full-time jobs with various entitlements like steady income, health benefits, and 401(k) plans. Despite evolving career preferences, policies and benefits are still very much structured for the 9-to-5 employee of a branded (Fortune 500) company. From tax...
Staples’ Commitment to Small Business Customers Goes Deeper than Logos and Designs
Every year, millions of small business owners and entrepreneurs turn to Staples for their business needs, whether it is office supplies, furniture, technology, or even print and marketing materials. As a small business owner and regular Staples customer myself, I understand! But to get the scoop on this phenomenon from someone “on the inside,”...
Put Yourself Ahead of The Competition in ANY Industry
Entrepreneurship today has become more volatile, ramping up competition more than ever before. Industries are changing rapidly, technology is advancing, and social and political change is affecting much of the way we do business. Long story short – tectonic plates are shifting. So, what does an entrepreneur or management team need to focus on...
Three Ways To Becoming and Staying an Industry Leader
You want your startup to rapidly develop a reputation as an industry leader. Ideally, you'd like not only to offer consumers something they need or want, but a solution that’s never existed before. Here are three ways you can become and stay an industry leader, with concrete examples from our success at Squadhelp.com. 1. Start...
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt Your Business
There are lots of things we don’t know. Sometimes we don’t know it’s going to rain - until it does. And our umbrella is at home. Maybe we don’t know that the food is too salty - until our family starts to complain. Or maybe we forgot that the time of a meeting was...
Entrepreneur Time Management: How To Control and Manage Where You Spend Your Time
Entrepreneurs are inherently busy. Marketing efforts, customer engagement, meetings and phone calls leave many professionals looking for that magic bullet that would solve time management woes. Unfortunately, it doesn’t exist. With only so many hours in a day and only so many days in year, it’s not really possible to manage or take control...
Customer Mapping and How it Can Help Your Small Business
Customer mapping is simple, really. It’s the process of determining the entire life of your customer’s engagement with your company, brand, and products. It involves every step; from initial interest piqued to a google search and a browse on your website, from a registration or signing up for your newsletters to buying your product and...
How to Find Your Next Big Business Idea Online
What do you do when you have a problem or a question? Chances are you hop onto Google, online forums, social media or watch YouTube tutorials. So why aren't you using these places to find your next big business idea? Because if you ask someone what their biggest pain points are face-to-face, in focus groups, or...
Salesforce Introduces Einstein High Velocity Sales Cloud
Salesforce, the world's #1 CRM company and Intelligent Customer Success Platform, today delivered the future of sales with Einstein High Velocity Sales Cloud. Einstein High Velocity Sales Cloud brings together the industry’s leading sales productivity app and the latest advancements in AI to empower sales reps to succeed in the digital era. Fueled by...
The Highs and Lows of Business Partnerships
In life, we were meant to live and operate in conjunction with others just like we do in business partnerships. While being a ‘Lone Wolf’ works for some people it is not necessarily a natural instinct, especially on the journey of business where we are faced with obstacles and challenges on the bumpy roller...