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Résumé Overload? A Shortcut to Spot Best Hires
If there’s one thing we small-business owners need it’s more time in our days. If you’re like me, you’re constantly on the hunt for the secrets to doing something faster, better or cheaper. Hiring employees is no exception. Finding the right people is never easy, but in today’s turbulent economy, job seekers are responding to […]
Is Business Anti-Obama or is President Obama Anti-Business?
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Getting in the Slow, And Stress Free, Lane
If job stress is wearing you down and you want more leisure time, but you can’t—or don’t want to—quit altogether, it can be easy to feel stuck. But there’s an alternative to consider: a voluntary demotion. Plenty of professionals dream of scaling back on their workload or ceding management responsibility, here’s how to do it: […]
Summer Calls, But Getting Away Is Tricky
The official start of summer may be just days away, but for many small-business owners, relaxing at a beach resort, touring a foreign city or camping in a remote forest is still tough to picture – at least not without a cell phone, laptop or other communication device by their side. More than half—55%—of 750 […]
Selling a Business Is Not a DIY Project
I recently met a woman (I’ll call her Pam) who owns a successful line of clothing that has captured a loyal following of women who buy her products through a group of retail clothing stores across the U.S. In addition to having her own clothing line, Pam produces a private label brand for a large […]
So Many Links, So Little Time
While toiling over what you are now reading, I scanned my three email accounts dozens of times and wrote a handful of emails; I responded on my cellphone to a score of text messages from my girlfriend and kids; I checked the balance of my bank account to see if a promised payment had arrived […]
How to Fix a Toxic Workplace
Leaders of good companies aspire to create workplace heavens. Leaders of workplace hells face more daunting challenges, and many will be lucky to achieve purgatory. But how do you reform a bad culture? We asked Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford‘s graduate business school and author of The Human Equation: Building Profits […]
5 Secrets to Selecting Highly-Effective SEO Keywords
If there is a single concept that is the driver of much of the Internet’s growth over the past decade – not to mention nearly all of Google’s annual revenue of $25 billion – it is the concept of keywords. Keywords are what we type in when we are searching for products, services, and answers […]
