How to Start Your Own Business After a Career Setback
Although we might fear the word “failure,” it is something we all experience at some point in our careers. It can even become a catalyst to launch our biggest successes in the business world. Many of the world’s leading entrepreneurs...
Small Business Accounting Costs Your Company Should Expect
As a small business owner, you have a lot of costs to consider. One expense you might not have thought about is your accounting program. One of the biggest challenges entrepreneurs face is running a company’s finances. It costs money...
6 Red Flags of eCommerce Fraud
As a retailer, eCommerce is something you can’t escape, nor should you want to. While 94% of retail sales still take place in a brick and mortar store, eCommerce is gaining fast, and expected to increase by 17% annually. With...
Why Your Website Needs To Be Optimised For The Mobile Generation
The mobile generation is a word that gets thrown around a lot in the business world, but what does it mean, and why should you need to know? The mobile generation is the here and now, as almost everyone has...
When (and How) To Turn Down a Prospective Freelance Client
Turning down a client is like saying no to a pay rise, right? Wrong. When working for yourself, you are perfectly entitled to be a little fussier about where your wage comes from. After all, you, and you alone...
What is Teal Management? Does It Use Traditional Business Processes?
Teal is a new management paradigm derived from the book ‘Reinventing Organizations’ written by Belgian author Frederic Laloux who worked as a consultant with McKinsey. The term teal denotes a new step of evolution in human consciousness which has led...
Employee Mentorship for the Millennial Generation
There has been so much negative talk about how millennials work over the past few years that the term millennial has practically become an insult. They’ve been labeled as lazy and entitled. We hear that they lack company loyalty and...
Finding Your Niche In a Crowded Market
Entering a new market becomes a bigger challenge for businesses with each passing day. You have to deal with heavily bankrolled competitors, saturated markets, lack of experience and a sceptical customer base. But all these challenges become manageable once you...
Is Training on Demand Your Ticket to Business Growth?
Companies perform well when their people achieve high levels of innovation, productivity, and efficiency. Businesses spend billions of dollars yearly to attract, train, develop and retain top talent, and the shift is underway to training on demand, particularly using online...
When to Say no to a Client and How to do it
Learning how to say “No” is one of the hardest things I have had to learn in my business. As a freelancer it is a survival instinct to say, “Yes “ to every client, every request and every chance to...