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How Companies Can Make Life Easier for Maintenance Employees (and the Company)

Until just a few years ago, large companies looking to improve workflow, cut costs, and streamline processes had to achieve this through months of complex evaluations and costly custom made software. Maintenance processes often topped the list for this sort of organization, as maintenance is a notoriously costly but necessary part of so many businesses, small and large.

Today, it may still seem costly to reorganize and improve maintenance processes, but failing to jump on this bandwagon now could and probably will end up costing businesses even more.

Going Mobile

For existing businesses, especially those in manufacturing or with large or multiple facilities to look after, moving into this new tech age might seem like a nightmare.…

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CEOs: Here’s How to Run Your Business Virtually

The stigma behind running a business entirely in a virtual environment has now mostly disappeared, with so many large tech startups over the last ten years showing just how easily it can be done. Running a virtual business is certainly different from a brick-and-mortar model. However, with all the resources now available, anyone can do it.

CEO running her business virtually

Running a virtual business can offer significant benefits over a traditional offline setup:

  • Freedom: No worries about having to stay in the same place for too long. A virtual business can offer you the freedom to work from anywhere at anytime.
  • Minimal investment: No offices to rent or furniture to buy (when going the virtual office route.)
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Three Comprehensive Tools Across Three Categories For Entrepreneurs

The famous philosopher Thomas Carlyle once said, “Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing; with tools he is all.” In today’s modern, connected world, tools are more than just inanimate objects we build with, but those we use digitally to improve businesses and connect people around the world.

Busy entrepreneur

As entrepreneurs, tools are vital to long-term success. With the right instruments, you can take your business further, get things done quicker, and save money on costly resources. The following tools across three categories — search engine optimization, customer service, and content marketing — help your business do just that.…

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Tips on Getting Your Employees to Follow Safety Measures

Do you own your own small business? Is it challenging to get everyone to follow the rules at all times when it comes to staying safe? And is it even more challenging to enforce these safety measures? Preventing workplace injuries should be one of your top priorities.

Worker safety

Workplace injuries account for the majority of injuries on the job and employees missing work dates throughout the work year. This can cost you thousands of dollars and lost time and wages for your employees. Finding ways to help everyone stick to the rules and guidelines is important.

Here are just a few examples of different ways that you can help motivate your workers.…

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6 Business Tips You Must Ignore

When you want to start your own business, you start looking for information on the Internet to get some tips. It’s possible to find so many tips that you can feel totally overwhelmed and confused.

In this article, we have gathered some “bad” tips you should avoid, helping you in realizing how you need to act.

Ignoring bad business advice

1. Don’t even try to start

Just from the moment you’ve got a great idea for your startup, begins bad advice from others. Of course people that say this are just very cautious and they really might not with you anything bad. But be prepared that even your friends or relatives may tell they don’t like your business idea, and you shouldn’t even start it.…

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How Virtual Offices Can Help You Win the Cost Cutting Game

A virtual office offers benefits to businesses of all sizes, including small startups and large corporations looking to expand operations into new areas. The fact is that in the era of digital, there’s no reason to rent, furnish and maintain an expensive office location, when a virtual office offers all the advantages at a fraction of the cost.

Virtual office

A virtual office gives you a professional address to put on your business card; a place to receive mail, faxes, and even receive visitors; and a facility that’s open for you, your colleagues, and clients to conduct meetings in at your convenience.

Other advantages like virtual answering service and access to virtual assistants for pressing projects means you can, for instance, work in rural Thailand while maintaining your business’s headquarters on Bay Street in Toronto, or Silicon Valley in San Francisco.…

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Business Benefits of Making People Comfortable

One of the ways that you can make your business better for your clients is if you focus on making customers comfortable. This means thinking about different sensory input that a person might be going through, and trying to control it as much as possible to get people into a pocket of being happy in their physical location.

Comfortable meeting with a client

A few ways that you can do this include getting your outdoor heating right, controlling your indoor lighting, creating a comfortable meeting environment between yourself and potential clients, and always fighting for that competitive edge when it comes to the small details.

Getting the Outdoor Heat Right

If you’ve ever been in outdoor seating at a restaurant in the cold weather, then you know how quickly things can become uncomfortable.…

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Equipment You Need When Remodeling The Office

As a small business owner, success and growth go hand in hand. Sooner or later, you realize it’s time for your office to grow, too. You may need to create space for more employees or an expanded range of products and services, or it may just be time for a refresh so your physical environment feels welcoming and current.

Office remodeling

Whatever your remodeling goals are, you need the right equipment to turn them into reality. Here’s what you need to get the job done.

Hand Tools

You probably already own some of the things you’ll need for your office remodel. Think about construction basics like hammers and screwdrivers, extension cords, safety goggles, ladders, tarps, and brooms.…

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How Small Businesses can Monitor Employee Productivity

As a business owner, you’ve likely encountered low productivity from your staff. Low employee productivity is a business problem that affects every organization large and small.

Unproductive employee

In many cases, owners may feel they are not getting enough output from an employee for the salay paid. It can be even more challenging to identify if you have an employee productivity issues if you have no means or framework for monitoring employee productivity.

Below are a few helpful methods that you can use to monitor employee productivity.

Employee Support

Employees engage in work processes with the information they have. Today’s productivity shortages is often the result of either lack of information or information overload.…

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5 Logistics Management Tips for Small and Medium-sized Business

When done right, supply chain and logistics management can be a harmonious symphony of vendors, trucks and warehouses. All parts work together to ensure the product is delivered undamaged, on time and to the customer’s satisfaction.

Logistics

On the other hand, an incoherent, poorly planned and ineffective supply chain can potentially deal a fatal blow to the average small and medium-sized business (SMB). Products lost in transit, sent to the wrong location and unexplained charges on customer receipts can all cause angst that’s strong enough to push customers to the competition.

The following logistics management tips are an essential read for SMB owners.…

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