How to Find and Hire Employees Who Can Think Critically

If you’re like most entrepreneurs, you have a need for employees who are able to think critically and make smart business decisions. Why does it seem like those people are increasingly rare and hard to find? How do you go about recruiting them and putting them to work for your company?

Let’s discuss viable strategies for finding critical thinkers and adding them to your team.

Hiring employees with critical thinking skills

Ask Interview Questions That Require Candidates to Demonstrate Their Critical Thinking Skills

It’s easy for job seekers to prepare scripted answers to the most frequently asked interview questions. If you want to get a valid idea of how candidates think, avoid asking the usual questions like “tell me about your greatest weakness” – a question that most applicants will have prepared a canned answer for.…

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Grow Your Business with These 5 Social Media Tips

Social media offers plenty of benefits to businesses that are able to fully grasp the power that this form of media possesses. Not only can social media be an effective marketing tool, but it can also be an essential part of your plan to make your business grow.

Using social media for growing business

We utilize social media to assist us in marketing houses for sale in Calgary as well as to build our brand. With these five tips, you can fully harness the power of social media to create the business growth you desire.

Tip #1: Set Goals

Before you start putting any work into your social media accounts, you need to establish goals that you can effectively monitor and track.…

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4 Tips to be a Better Trader

Sometimes the human brain just doesn’t work the way we’d like it to. Unfortunately, there are a lot of variables that control our emotions, and thus our overall performance. That is why our efficiency varies so greatly across the board. However, we can all get better by continuously striving to fix our short-comings.

Tips for being a better trader

When you’ve improved upon most of your big weaknesses, your performance will automatically increase. Today we are going to talk about the trading business. The following 4 tips will be helpful for you to understand how to become a more calculated, intelligent, and profitable trader.

1. Continuously monitor your performance

Traders need to be efficient.…

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3 Basic Facts Regarding Cryptocurrency You Must Know

Cryptocurrency is a fairly new concept that is spreading in popularity like wildfire. Many online consumers and online traders prefer to use digital rather than regular cash. There are a lot of benefits associated with using a cryptocurrency. It is easy to see why so many people have made the switch. They’re are safer to use online than other types of currency.

Since its introduction, many people are confused as to why using a cryptocurrency is better than other types of online currencies. The answer to this is simple.

How to get the most out of cryptocurrency

1. Endless Perks and Benefits Associated with Switching to Cryptocurrency

There are far more benefits and perks to using a cryptocurrency than other types of online transactions.…

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6 Ways Call Center Outsourcing Can Help Your Business Grow

Felix Dennis, co-founder of Dennis Publishing said: “I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I’ve sold more magazines than any man alive.” Having an over-attachment to precision will keep your business alive. Being precise with your money, and executing an excellent business budget, will show you how to build an unbeatable customer support. One way to do so is by outsourcing your call center.

Call center outsourcing

Here are several benefits as to why that is.

1. Constant Support

No company is exempt from bad weather, power outages and acts of God. This means that in-house call center is at the risk of natural disasters, and may not always be fully operational.…

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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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