When you first start out in business it can be tempting to work from home. Not only does it keep your expenses low but you also have the flexibility of being able to work any hours you choose. However, there comes a time when you need to expand and one of the best ways to do this is to draw a clear line between your home and business life and to step into your own office.
Let’s look at different ways to start your expansion.…
You hear a lot about sustainability these days, and for good reason. Creating sustainable processes at work and beyond is crucial for many people concerned about what the future may hold. While the very core of maintaining sustainability within a company entails environmental preservation and adherence to pertinent regulations, there’s actually more to it than that.
For a company to be truly sustainable certain practices must be adopted. This involves individuals taking responsibility for their respective roles, as well as forming collectives all working towards the same purpose.…
Owning a business comes with its own set of challenges but there are plenty of tools and software systems available that can make it much easier.
Google AdWords
When it comes to websites, Google has a lot of tools and resources available for business owners. One of these resources is AdWords, which allows you to reach a high volume of potential clients through a variety of avenues across the Google platform. It is actually the highest revenue generator among all of Google’s services, which shows its strong online presence.…
There’s no sugar coating the challenges that come with hiring a virtual assisting agency to provide you with qualified, hard working VAs to help you in your business. With new firms cropping up every day that always promise prospective clients the world, it has only become harder to find the right online talent to help you keep your business on track.
When you start to read up on what each firm offers, there are a lot of things you need to look for before signing up for a monthly service plan.…
If you want to generate a business idea which will stand the test of time it needs careful consideration. It is easy to become passionate about a particular path, however unless you do some early research to ensure it is viable, you could end up a victim of the statistics which say that half of all businesses will go bust within the first five years.
Generating Ideas
The first step is to generate a range of small business ideas which you should then examine in more detail.…
Whether you’re an entrepreneur with great dreams, a student advancing his or her career by pursuing an MBA degree online, or a celebrated corporate executive at the head of a multinational company, fully understanding the value of happy employees is fundamental to increased productivity, and ultimately, success.
Those in management quickly learn this secret–keeping employees happy results in financial dividends for the entire company. The Harvard Business Review conducted an analysis of hundreds of studies which showed there was an increase of 31 percent in productivity, and 37 percent more sales when the happiness of employees was considered an important part of the business model.…
Business networking can be great for your career, but the drawback of traditional networking is that it doesn’t scale. Online networking, however, does scale, and it can grow as large as you want. Here’s how to use LinkedIn to increase your influence and your network.
1. Regularly publish on LinkedIn
This is one of the best ways to engage your audience, get involved in your niche and show that you’re an expert in your field. At first, only journalists or people in management positions could publish on LinkedIn.…
Eventually, there will come a time when your small business reaches the limit of what it can do without growing. Small businesses and their growth are an important part of the economy – Forbes reports that they make up more than 65 percent of the net new jobs created since 1995 and that more than half the working population works at a small business.
If you think your business needs to expand, watch for some of these common signs:
You’re Getting Outpaced
One of the indicators that it is time for your business to expand is when the demand for you product or service begins to outpace your ability to supply it.…
It is every blogger’s dream to build enduring great blogs like Copyblogger, Problogger, Mashable, Techcrunch, Huffington Post, SmallBizTrends and many others. These sites stand out tall as the kings of whatever niche they occupy. They attract attention, they command authority and they epitomize greatness. Little wonder they are the dream of every blogger.
But what makes enduring great blogs great?
It was the great management thinker Jim Colins who first asked a similar business question to this; “what makes enduring great companies great?”…
I started this blog naijapreneur on my 26th birthday in July 2010. It was my birthday gift to the world, a principle I learnt from Seth Godin.
In those early days, I went about the blogosphere leaving comments on a couple of blogs here and there. Before long, the favours started to return themselves back on my blog. I gained comments after another from fellow bloggers whose blog I had visited. That was my first experience with trading comments.
From trading comments, I began to notice certain bloggers whose personality I liked and wanted to be friends with and hopefully, eventually collaborate with.…
