Examining Your Culture: Do You Live in a Glass House?

Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. This, of course, is an old proverb, but it applies to businesses who may be criticizing other companies’ cultures right now. Simply put, you shouldn’t condemn others who might have similar flaws to your own.

Company culture

After all, company cultures are tricky. They are living, breathing things — the byproduct of careful gardening and tedious attention to detail. Pointing out the shortcomings of another company is more than a bad look; it’s often hypocritical. Before you start pontificating about your superior company culture, you may want to look in a mirror.

A recent survey of 1,000 professionals by TopResume found that 68% of workers have thought about leaving their companies because of the poor treatment they’ve received during the coronavirus pandemic.…

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Why You Shouldn’t Miss the Chance to Study Internationally

Some say the best way to learn is through seeking knowledge, while others say it’s experience. One thing is for sure, and that is that the way you choose to learn, the way you gain more knowledge and experience, will determine the person you become and the infinite possibilities that exist in various parts of the world.

Studying abroad

Studying abroad comes with life-altering benefits that have the power to change the course of a life. Here are some reasons how studying internationally can improve the quality and outcome of your life.

Academic Prestige

When you open yourself up to the possibilities of traveling to another land to study, you open up a gateway for higher academia.…

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The Most Important Hard Skill Business Owners Should Learn in 2020? SEO!

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of those terms that intimidates, confuses, and frustrates so many today. The acronym itself is strapped with misinformation and misunderstanding that convinces business owners and marketers it’s some kind of taboo, hard-to-understand digital marketing service better left to the professionals.

SEO consultant advising a client

The reality is that SEO is not complex, hard-to-understand, or impossible to tackle at all. However, as more companies refuse to explore the simple education behind SEO, they are harming their company’s online search engine rankings tenfold. In fact, 91% of pages never get any organic traffic from Google – due to the fact that they don’t have any backlinks!…

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How Can You Unlock Your Financial Potential? It Starts with Credit, According to Colin Yurcisin

We’re expected to pay taxes, make payments, take out loans, review interest rates, and manage credit cards the moment we’re thrust out into the world after high school. It can be a heavy amount of information we are expected to learn once we hit the age of 18, considering our basic education does not cover the ins and outs of financial literacy today.

Business credit financing

More important than loans or rates is one measurement of financial trustworthiness that can make or break your future, according to finance entrepreneur Colin Yurcisin. It’s known as credit.

When individuals fail to pay back loans, accumulate more debt than they can pay off, and make poor financial decisions at a young age, they impact their credit score in a damaging way.…

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How to Encourage Employees Back to the Office

The lockdown has been lifted for a few months now, and the country has, by-and-large, reopened for business. But while many of the country’s office workers might have the facility to work from home, the same isn’t true of everyone. Moreover, those that do work from home might need to occasionally pay a visit to the business’s premises, whether to collect paperwork, or for a face-to-face chat.

New normal workplace

Of course, workers are rightly concerned about the health risks of doing so. Simply forcing them to come back is going to generate resentment and ill-feeling. Few workers are going to work harder for a boss who doesn’t take their safety seriously.…

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8 Useful Tips To Start A Trucking Company

Trucking business is not meant for the faint-hearted. Entrepreneurs in the trucking industry constantly face barraging challenges and tough decisions. Yet the trucking sector presents the opportunities for high yielding businesses even for small operators.

Truck

It’s no secret that the market for trucking and work trucks is booming with every passing year. And trust us, if you get the fundamentals right there’s lots of money to be made in the industry.

Of course, you need to crack some nuts before you hit the jackpot!

Are you wondering how that’s going to happen? Follow our strategies, and you are sure to achieve the milestones one-at-a-time for your trucking start-up!…

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New Business Ideas for During and After COVID-19

2020 has seen the world of business change like never before, or at least in the living memory of most people. Around the world, people were suddenly forced to stop working or work from home. Now the restrictions have eased in many places, though resurgences continue sporadically. All of this poses serious limitations on businesses, and challenges to planning for the future.

Work from home is the new normal

However, there are many innovative entrepreneurs that rise to the various challenges brought by the global pandemic. This can be seen through the hackathons and competitions that seek to take on global issues, such as easing congestion in public places to ensure social distancing can be maximized, and a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE).…

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How to Recover and Grow a Failing Business with Adam Jacobs

There are a host of reasons why a business may be failing: insufficient marketing tactics, a lackluster service, economic or social circumstances (such as COVID-19), or otherwise. Recovering a failing business is an art within itself.

Business growth

Course-correcting what’s gone wrong takes strong business acumen and experiencing. But beyond just recovery, growing a previously failing business takes true innovation and perspective.

Adam Jacobs both recovered and grew a previously failing business: Bubblegum Casting, a prestigious Australian talent agency. While some entrepreneurs and investors take over failing businesses to make money, the motive was entirely different for Jacobs: his younger sister had been one of Bubblegum Casting’s top stars before she passed away.…

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The Benefits of Using Big Data

Big data is one of those buzzwords in the business community that everyone is racing to try and use to their advantage. The sad part is, not everyone even knows what it is, much less how to analyze it.

Big data for business

Big data is a set of data that is either too large or complex for a normal data processing system to analyze. The old way that a data processing system would function is to analyze data and information in an organized spreadsheet, but with big data that is not possible.

Big data can be emails, texts, and other forms of communication and numbers that we can start to use to dive deeper into analytics for business advantage.…

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5 Ways to Gain Business Experience

If you’re interested in a career in business but don’t know where to start, there are plenty of ways to get experience. Business is all around us and can be found in places you wouldn’t expect. While some people take a linear approach to the world of business and study it academically, others prefer a practical, hands on approach. This is the glory of the business world. There’s no right or wrong.

Business startup mentor

So, here are 5 ways to gain business experience.

1. Community involvement

Many communities in the states rely on a board of people to keep the community running smoothly and deal with any issues.…

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