5 Marketing Ideas for Food Trucks

Marketing can be a difficult monster to tame no matter what industry you are in. But in the fast paced lifestyle of food trucks, strong marketing is more important than ever. Owning a mobile eatery removes the ability for customers to associate your brand with a location. That’s the mobile part.

tips to market a food truck

Because of this, many people are only able to get information about the business through previous customers word of mouth or seeing the truck on the street. Not only is it hard to inform customers in such a short time, it is also hard to set yourself apart from the crowd.…

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4 Tips to help you rock your LinkedIn company page

Do you have a company page on LinkedIn? A great company page can be so much more than just an extension of your HR, but an actual hub where your audience can get valuable news and information about your business and your industry.

In this blog post, I’m going to share 4 tips that will help you rock your LinkedIn company page.

LinkedIn on computer screen

But before we get to the tips, here are a few basics about your Page that you need to keep in mind:

  • Make sure you’ve completed your entire Company Page
  • Add your company logo as your “profile picture” – LinkedIn claims that companies that use their logo on their Pages get 6 times more traffic to their Pages than those who don’t
  • Add a cover image that not only looks great, but also showcases who you are as a business.
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Your Trust Services Company Should Have These 6 Key Attributes

No two trust services companies are alike. Nor are all trust companies appropriate for every client’s needs and preferences. Like any other successful business relationship, the trust services industry’s most enduring client-provider relationships are built on mutual interest, respect, and competency.

Trust service company

When seeking a new partner for your firm’s trust services needs, look for providers that exhibit these six key attributes.

1. On-Demand Access to Senior Staff

Seek out trust services firms that make senior staff available outside of regular business hours. While it is certainly important to respect the privacy and personal space of your trust services partners, sometimes there are matters that cannot wait.…

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8 Easy Steps of Printing QuickBooks Checks

QuickBooks provides businesses with an affordable alternative to opening a whole accounts department. It creates and maintains a database and helps make payments. If you want to use QuickBooks to make payments, you can print checks and hand it to your vendors. The steps of creating and printing QuickBooks are simple.

QuickBooks checking guide

Step 1: Create a QuickBooks Account

The first thing to do is to create a QuickBooks account. Without having an account, you cannot naturally make payments using the software. You need to start your account not only to make payments but to keep track of all your accounting needs. The first step in beginning the process is to open your QuickBooks account.…

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5 Signs Your Business May Need More Employees

There are a few employees that companies and corporations need to function properly, without turning to bankruptcy in a few years. Being a good employee, at a good job, is the ultimate dream; as business owners, are we hiring the right type of employees?

New job applicants to fill in new positions

Let’s take a look at 5 signs we need to watch out for to ensure our business has the right type of employees.

1. Not Enough Diversity

Take culture, race/ethnicity and gender out of the equation. One of the signs your business needs more employees to do their job… is to hire employees with as wide and distinct skill-sets as possible.…

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5 Top Service Provider Tricks for Optimizing Workforces in the Field

Running a service company is about staying focused. Each job has limited money-making potential, so it’s vital to do them all as efficiently as possible. These five tips make it easier to sustain profitability starting with the workforce in the field.

Tips to maximise a service-based workforce

1. Get Smarter About Metric Tracking

Maintaining a cost-effective workforce in the field can be difficult. Some business leaders baulk when asked to make tough cash flow decisions about which projects are important, while others do this by instinct. For instance, experienced managers might have a “gut feel” for what’s a good use of company time but the data may show otherwise.…

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Top 5 Mistakes to Avoid When Choosing a Learning Management System

The LMS, or learning management system, is quickly growing in popularity. The perks are numerous to speeding up the training process, but many brands are still having second thoughts. The simple reason is that they have not chosen the right LMS for their needs. Most brands get turned off simply because they don’t know what to look for — or rather, what to avoid when making a final choice.

Things to avoid when choosing an LMS

Suppose you go shopping, you will find the same product from different brands. When you do not research, you end up with a low-quality product. In the long run, this can make the whole effort futile.…

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5 Collaborative Tech Apps Every Business Should Know about

When it comes to corporate innovation, change doesn’t just happen. Half the battle is making sure that your team is running as efficiently as possible, so you can find the time and space to have big conversations without dropping the ball on any essential daily tasks.

5 collaboration apps to take your business to the next level

With that in mind, here are 5 collaborative tech apps that every corporation should be using. Whether you have five or five thousand employees, you might find that one of these tech solutions is exactly what you need to whip your workflow into shape, and open the door to collaborative innovation.

1. Google Drive (Safely store and share your documents)

Google Drive screenshot

You might already use Google Drive as a backup location for your most important files, but it’s so much more than that: it’s also one of the best collaboration platforms around.…

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How Can Upgrading Technology Help Restaurants Increase Sales?

When most people think about opening a restaurant, they dream of all the delicious concoctions they’ll whip up for their guests. Guests who hopefully keep coming back so often that they practically become family.

Restaurant technology upgrades increase sales

When thoughts wander to boosting sales and increasing the bottom line, many new restaurateurs go right back to crafting killer cocktails and whipping up delectable meals that will keep people buying and buying.

While that’s certainly one part of it, there is one major, yet often overlooked way that restaurants can increase sales: upgrading technology. From cutting down on time to increasing efficiency, there’s a lot that the right tech can do to boost a restaurant’s success.…

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