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How to Get Influential Bloggers Blogging About Your Brand

According to a Nielson survey from just over a year ago, 83% of all online consumers polled from 60 countries say they trust recommendations from their peers over those made by brands themselves. This presents a challenge for brands who have or plan to rely mostly on costly paid advertising methods to spread the word about their brands.

Content media

This reality is doubly true for established offline brands seeking to improve their web presence. However, it’s really only a problem for those who aren’t willing to pivot and find other, more niched-down branding sources. Namely, the most influential of online peers: ie.,…

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These 6 Strategies Will Make Your Business More Efficient

Are you looking for ways to make your business more efficient?

There’s no shortage of opportunity. The trick is knowing which strategies are likely to pay off for your company, and which are best left to others to pursue. As with so many other things, investing in efficiency is all about ROI: the greater the potential return, the higher the priority.

Business people working together

While every company is different, these six efficient business strategies have proven effective across a broad range of industries and niches. If you’re seeking to streamline and improve your company’s operations, they’re all worth a closer look.

1. Automate High-Volume Functions

You probably have more to do than that of which your staff allows.…

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PPI Facts That You Should Know About

Payment Protection Insurance policies were sold to millions of people in the UK. Most of these PPI policies were mis-sold. Experts have estimated that the total value of these mis-sold PPI policies comes to nearly £50 billion pounds, with most of these mis-sold ppi policies being sold to consumers over the previous ten to fifteen years (2001 to 2016.)

PPI

PPI Compensation

Since 2011, when the UK banks lost a high court case, which forced them to pay out compensation to the victims of mis-sold PPI, £24 billion has been paid out in PPI Claims compensation to these individuals.

What Was PPI Mis Sold On?

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How To Get A Celebrity At Your Corporate Hospitality Event

Corporate events are great opportunities to impress clients, co-workers, and employees. And what is more impressive than introducing them to a celebrity?

Yes, celebrities may seem out of reach. Why would they need to slum it with Janet from Accounting at your work party? But the truth is, it might be easier than you think to get a celebrity at your corporate event. Here’s how to do it.

Find a celebrity corporate event or hospitality package

The most straightforward way to get a celebrity at your corporate event is to book a hospitality package that already guarantees a celebrity appearance.

Many corporate events packages of this kind can be found.…

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6 Small Business Service Types That Offer a Flexible Work Environment

Telecommuting and freelancing are gaining popularity not only because of the obvious benefits they hold for employees. Recent studies show that employees who are granted the freedom to work remotely have a significantly increased rate of productivity in comparison with office-based staff that reaches around 60% to 85% for an 8-hour work day. Aside from raising motivation and lowering employee turnover, flexibility and teleworking have some important financial benefits for businesses, like saving on annual leaves, sick days, insurance, taxes, and office expenses.

Freelancer works flexible work hours

Yet, not all industry sectors can take advantage of the perks of hiring temporary staff, freelancers and running a telecommuting team.…

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10 Resources to Help Make Telework Possible for Your Company

Offering telework opportunities is a great way to increase your employee morale within your organization. Working remotely gives employees a stronger sense of autonomy and freedom. It also makes it possible for you to recruit from a wider pool of people who aren’t necessarily within your geographical location.

Teleworking

It’s vital to keep your remote employees productive and working at their best. Here are 10 resources to help make that happen.

1. G Suite (was Google Apps)

Most companies that allow remote work have already embraced the power and versatility of G Suite products. Sharing documents is effortless with this free tool that only requires a Gmail account.…

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10 Things To Remember When Expanding Your Business Globally

Expanding your business into overseas markets may be a long-cherished dream of yours, but when doing so, you shouldn’t presume that your success at home will automatically translate into success elsewhere.

Global expansion

Follow these 10 tips to ensure that you do well in new markets.

1. Ensure stability back home

You should ensure that your business is already thriving in its current market, before going to the effort of targeting overseas business. Expanding a business is a time-consuming and sometimes risky undertaking, so you need to be sure that the business has first established the strongest possible foundations in its original territory.…

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How Credit Protection will Keep your Finances Safe

We live in a world where anything we do; we get rated on our performances. From Primary school, to high school and college, we all rely on a rating system to help us achieve our goals and get to the next level. The same applies for people who have credit cards.

Credit protection

Credit cards are a responsibility and a privilege at the same time. In order to obtain one, it means that you are a working and productive member of society, and have been deemed fit to have a credit card (or credit cards) in your name.

Credit cards are usual tools, we probably use them weekly, if not daily.…

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3 Uses of Precision Motion Control in the Food and Beverage Industry

The food and beverage industry is incredibly lucrative, thus presenting many opportunities for streamlining existing processes in innovative ways. Those who own businesses in this field must stay updated on the best methods for optimizing workflows, increasing throughput, and boosting profits.

Bottling company

One way to increase your company’s productivity and efficiency is by investing in state-of-the-art systems to replace outdated old machines. Should you find yourself balking at the initial costs, keep reading to learn how high-quality custom linear stages could result in big returns later on.

1. Bottling, Filling, and Conveying

While the quality of your food or beverage product is important, your packaging can make or break your sales figures.…

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10 Simple Tips to Improve Telemarketing Results

Telemarketing companies can make themselves more competitive to retain and recruit new business through a wide variety of strategies. After all, the best way to convince someone to use your services is to show them the result of past success with other clients. You’ll prove that you know how to help them generate more sales.

Telemarketing agent

However, cold calling is emotionally difficult for agents. Merely handing an agent a list of telephone numbers to call and some instructions on what type of results you expect is a recipe for failure. Chances are good that the agent will be nervous, and this uncertainty will be reflected in their voice.…

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