Creating a Content Brand to Grow Your Brand
3 core benefits of creating a content brand to hone your brand grow your audience Creating a content brand has been the subject of multiple views and opinions. One such …
Great Communication Yields Impact for Small Business Growth
Create success by extending generosity your colleagues and customers, it’s known as the Law of Reciprocity. As a career Wall Streeter and mountaineer, I learned over the years that …
Maintaining Control of the Small Business Workplace Culture
It’s important to stay on top of who is having the dominant influence on the workplace culture You hear a lot of information about the value of workplace culture in …
A Perspective on Managing Growth from a Hispanic Entrepreneur
Be careful what you wish for when managing growth…here are three key factors to help. Every Hispanic entrepreneur wants his/her company to grow, and growth is a good thing. But managing …
Real Scenario- When a Growing Small Business Needs Funding
An actual Q&A exchange with a small business owner and finance expert. Editor’s note: These are excerpts of a conversation between a small business owner and a financial consultant. 1. Question, …
Grow Business Thru Customer Experience: Part 2
“Outside In” author explains how the six disciplines of customer experience can help businesses succeed, here are 4 through 6. Editor’s Note: This article concludes a two-part series. Find part …
Building Small Business Growth Through Happy Employees [Video]
4 Steps to Building an Internal Employer Brand that encourages happier employees Many small and medium sized business owners’ work tirelessly to build their business. Hours can be long, and …
6 Factors to Make Work Meaningful for Small Businesses
Whether you’re the employer or an employee, you need to put meaning into work. In the developed world in the 21st century, work has a strong emotional and social purpose. …
6 Characteristics of a Collaborative Organization
Working collaboratively doesn’t mean always playing nice and building consensus, sometimes things can get messy. This is a very important part of the successful collaborative dynamic, working with teams that comprise people of distinctly contrasting experience and professional backgrounds help to deliver a 360 view.
6 Lessons Learned From Managing Growth
Vacation tip: When you are an entrepreneur, you will never need a vacation more than you will as your company is growing, and it will never be harder to get away. Everyone looks to you. If you’re doing this as a couple, it may be even harder. And finding a trusted lieutenant you can leave in charge is tough. So if you do get away you’ll have to keep your trips short and check in frequently. Happily this is aided these days with smart phones and the internet, but that can mean you don’t really get away at all. I would recommend physically active vacations because while you are skiing or snorkeling or hiking in the mountains it is hard to think about anything other than what you are doing at that moment, and when you stop, you are so tired from your physical activity, you just relax.
