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How to Get Started With Video Conferencing?

Most people are familiar with the term ‘video conferencing’ but may not know how it works. Video conferencing is the process of conducting a meeting or conversation with multiple participants through video and audio feeds.

Video conferencing in office

It’s been around for a while now but has become increasingly popular in recent years as more and more businesses see its benefits.

What is Video Conferencing?

Video conferencing is a technology that allows two or more people to see and speak to each other face-to-face, even if they are in different locations. It is often used for business purposes but can also be used for personal reasons, such as staying in touch with family and friends.…

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Developing a Positive Team Culture Within Your Small Business

As a CEO of a small company, a list of seemingly countless priorities and needs can demand your attention. Sometimes, items like “team culture” that seem a bit more nebulous fall by the wayside when more urgent and quantifiable problems in the realms of marketing, sales, operations, legal, recruitment, and more arise. It’s easy to give these areas more attention when they seem pressing and when the consequences of ignoring them seem more extreme.

Team culture

However, investing time and energy into your team culture can actually be the lynchpin that determines whether your company ultimately finds success or dissolves and loses momentum.…

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5 Important Questions to Ask Yourself When Choosing Your Ideal Contract Manufacturing Partner

Manufacturing has seen its shares of peaks and valleys in the past two years. Though each industry’s experience has been unique, they’ve all had to adapt in some form.

Contract manufacturing partner

Take the beauty industry, for example. For that $530 billion market, the past couple of years have been mainly about survival. As the world battled a deadly pandemic and its economic fallout, beauty consumers began shifting their dollars elsewhere. As a result, 2020 saw the sales of color cosmetics sales plunge 33%, and overall retail beauty sales fall 15%. But beauty is nothing if not resilient, and experts are forecasting a return to growth in 2022.…

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How to Grow Your Business Sustainably for Long-Term Success

Every business has the potential for long-term success. However, someone who has the right strategy in place is more likely to make it happen more quickly. If you’re starting a business with the goal of achieving long-term sustainability, it’s critically important that you plan ahead, and know how to deal with the problems that will inevitably arise.

Business growth tactics

In this article, we’ll go over some of the most important tactics that will assist you in growing your business sustainably over the long-term.

1. Focus On The Basics

There is no way your company will experience long-term success until you have done your homework on the fundamentals.…

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Expanding your Business Doesn’t Need to Break The Bank

It is a tough job to grow your business, especially in today’s time. Entrepreneurs who have been into 1-2 years in business particularly face this problem. Many businesses want to expand at a particular stage.

Business expansion

Booming sales and high customer demand are inadequate to predict whether the time has come for expanding the business or not. Simply because your customers are not averse to the idea of spending more, does not indicate that profitability will be selling more or not.

You might have saturated the existing market, have innovative ideas about a new product, or want to broaden your attractiveness. Every time, there is an array of opportunities elsewhere.…

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Outsourcing Can Save Your Business Real Money

Outsourcing is a key ingredient used by many business owners to make jobs easier and free up schedules. Business owners can save a lot of their time, which they can use for generating more income and developing new and productive ideas. It is a practice that triggered the popularity of outsourcing exponentially.

Outsourcing to save money

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A second advantage is that entrepreneurs can outsource specific jobs to professionals who are experts and possess the fundamental skill set in that particular field of business. Before an entrepreneur sought their support, they were struggling to cope with those tasks. Thus, outsourcing results in saving money, effort, and time.…

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Building a Streamlined Small Business

If you are running a business of your own, every moment of your day is precious. However, you have an endless task list while resources are limited. So, How to make sure that all your tasks are done and in a correct manner?

Building a streamlined business

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For any small business operation, effectiveness and efficiency is the key. The good news is that it is possible to streamline a small business with a few techniques and tools. Thus, you can also have more free time to concentrate on doing other important tasks.

You will come across plenty of entrepreneurs who boast about working for 80 hours every week.…

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Focus on Your Core Business and Get Someone Else to Do The Time-consuming Tasks

Today’s business space is a fast-paced world where there is so much stress for organizations to offer superior customer support and quality. To achieve these goals, businesses have to keep their costs low. Also, more businesses, irrespective of their types are opting to outsource their non-core processes.

Businesswoman outsourcing tasks

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Every entrepreneur wants more hours in a day though it is something impossible to have. However, what if the owner could free up his/her significant time as much as 1/5th of their workday daily? They can utilize this time for their core business functionalities.

It is extremely crucial for every entrepreneur to distinguish their time-consuming routine tasks from core business activities.…

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How to Make a Success of Hybrid Working

Hybrid working is becoming more and more popular for so many different types of organisations. Since the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic, the world has had to adjust to remote working, helping many teams realise just how simple the transition to remote working can be for their people.

Hybrid working

As companies have reaped the benefits of remote working, it is no surprise the hybrid model has been widely accepted by those wishing to continue this style of working. Making it a core part of their operations.

Putting discussions of the pandemic aside, the advancements in technology over the last few years has meant hybrid working has offered so many benefits to organisations and particularly global companies looking to simplify their communications and operations.…

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The Importance of Patience While Growing a Business

When you start and grow a business, it is critical that you’re patient throughout the process. I started a company called CRAVEBOX in 2014 and growing the company from an idea to what it is now, required a great deal of patience and persistence.

Growing a business with patience

It’s important to realize that actual, tangible results take very long to materialize. Usually, you will need to work hard for several years before the results become obvious. If you don’t have patience and give up too soon, you will never reach those desired results.

There are several reasons why patience is so important when growing your business.…

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