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3 Trade Show Networking Tips for Success

Networking is the single most powerful tool you can use at a trade show. You cannot afford to not have your whole staff networking at all times at the trade show. Spend some time before the show perfecting the finer points of your product or service you are providing.

Networking at trade shows

Make sure that these come off as conversational and not too pushy. Any connection you make at the trade show could be a potential sale now or down the road. If you are personable and likable, even if they don’t purchase from you, they may recommend your services to friends and colleagues.…

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9 Pro Tips to Improve Sales Operations Efficiency

No matter how good your product or service is, without a good sales strategy you can’t achieve much. Here are tips to improve your sales operations efficiency.

Sales operations efficiency

Do you have a product or service that you believe is a game-changer in your field? Are you trying to come with the best way to make it known to the rest of the world?

If so, then you must first come up with a reliable sales strategy so that you can do as much business as possible right away. The goal here is to build your sales operations with a team that knows what it’s doing and consideration for all factors that all more people to notice your offerings.…

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6 Simple Tips for Retaining Your Best Freelancers

Hiring freelancers is an efficient and cost-effective way to make up for any skill or manpower deficiencies in your company. What’s more, the contractual nature of hiring freelancers affords you the flexibility you need to stay operational and remain profitable even during off-peak seasons. These make freelancers an indispensable resource for all businesses, especially in the case of SMEs and startups.

Busy freelancer on the phone

While freelancers often look for new projects to work on, you can still find it challenging to retain the ones you’ve come to depend on the most, or those who have proven themselves to be top performers in their field of work.…

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Tips To Consider Before Purchasing a Budgeting Software

Budgeting software is essential for your business if you desire to keep track of your revenues, customer information, along with other financial data. Therefore, you must purchase the best budget software you can. For this to happen, you need to do in-depth research on which properties will best suit your business needs.

Businessman using budgeting software

Having a good idea of what your business needs will allow you to find the budgeting software that will best cater, for your day to day operations. Here are a few tips that will guide you on what to look for before you commit to purchasing your budgeting software.…

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How to Boost Traffic to Your Fitness Website

The question of how to get more traffic is quite familiar to all online content creators. This is because the growth and sustainability of their brand and business depend on how much following they get. Even though not all your followers will end up being your customers, a big following comes with advantages.

Increasing fitness website traffic

First of all, out of the many prospects, you will not lack a good number that will be converted into real customers. Also, people are attracted to popularity, so if your account has many followers, it will definitely attract more, and this could also mean you get paid by third parties.

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What To Do When Your Business Is Turning South

As entrepreneurs, we all strive to build businesses that create value in the ecosystem, make money and help stakeholders establish a profitable venture. That does not always happen.

How to deal with a declining business

Businesses fail due to various reasons and in the worst cases can also shut down. How do you prepare yourself for such an eventuality? Here are a few things to look into.

Closures for reasons beyond your control

There are many reasons that are outside your control as an entrepreneur. There could be serious damage to your property or equipment. Even if the assets can be salvaged, this takes time and could thus interrupt cash flow.…

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Need Tech to Boost Your Restaurant? Use Employee Scheduling Software

Breaking into the restaurant industry is notoriously difficult. The dire statistic everybody knows is that one of every two new restaurants close after only being open for a year or two. Of those that survive past this point, their financial situation is often still precarious.

Restaurateur using employee scheduling app

In the last few years, many restaurants across North America have taken advantage of new software that has empowered them with various tools which give their budget a boost. Read on to see how employee scheduling software can give your restaurant a major advantage.

Perfect Schedules, Quickly

Employee scheduling software’s primary function is to create responsive, flexible schedules in up to 80% less time than it would otherwise take.…

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6 Effective Marketing Tips for Freelancers

Did you know freelancers contributed around $1.4 trillion to the US economy in 2017? And this number continues to grow each year. With the increase in popularity of remote work, freelancing is becoming a popular part-time or full-time career option for many people.

Remote worker freelancing for a client

The thing is, with an increase in demand and supply comes an increase in cut-throat competition for independent workers. In order to stand out in the world of freelancing, it is important to put your best foot forward.

Here are 6 effective marketing tips for freelancers to help them kickstart a successful remote work career.

Identify key focus areas

Before any career move it is important to have a clear understanding of your expertise and desired focus areas.…

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The Leadership New Teachers Need to Flourish

A key factor steering the economic growth of any country is a knowledge-driven workforce and the significance of the teaching profession towards the same cannot be underrated. Teachers play a vital role in building a strong human capital base and shaping the future of a country. However, while there is the need to recruit and retain quality teachers, there is a growing concern across the globe with regard to the attrition rate.

Accentuating teacher leadership role

Research put forth by the U.S. Department of Education suggests that 17 per cent of new teachers leave the classroom within 5 years. This has led to a decline in instruction quality, making it necessary to adopt strategies that improve teacher recruitment and retention.…

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Cold Calling Vs. Social Selling – Why Not Both?

This issue is one of those debates that nearly feels talked to death. The amount of spilled digital ink on the subject could fill out about a hundred blogs, and there would still be some opinions left over.

Marketer doing cold calling and social selling

For some, the rift between cold calling and social selling proponents is generational in nature, with cold calling representing the old, intrusive and no-longer effective form of selling, while social selling is the new and improved way of connecting with prospects. To others, social selling is just an ineffective “preaching to the choir” that connects you with people but doesn’t actually make a sale.…

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