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How Cloud Technology Enables Budding Entrepreneurs to Work Smarter
There is no doubt that cloud technology continues to grow in popularity; we’re using it in our personal lives more than ever before, and businesses are adopting cloud infrastructure and applications to improve workplace collaboration,...
Master These 5 Communication Skills to Help Scale Your Business
Communication is frequently cited as one of the most important soft skills that business professionals need. It ranked fifth on the list of Udemy’s fastest-growing soft skills for 2020, with 40% of companies planning to...
The 4 Essential Tools for Running a Small Business
If hosting events, scheduling appointments or listing digital content is a central activity for your startup, you have more choices than ever when it comes to the tools to use to run your business. But...
WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Experts Predict Life in 2025 Will Be More Tech-Driven (Episode 188)
On this morning's WJR Business Beat, Jeff shares results from a new Pew Research survey, which asked tech experts what they believe life will be like in 2025. Many of those surveyed believe that life...
8 Tips to Keep Your Startup Team Connected During COVID-19
For my startups, the majority of my team members have always worked remotely. When the announcement came to shelter-in-place due to COVID-19, there wasn’t much we changed about our work environment. However, I did recognize...
5 Tips for Effectively Working from Home
While we are in the midst of the global COVID-19 crisis, working from home has become the new normal for so many of us. For some, this can be a brand-new reality, and it can...
How to Stay Connected While Working Remotely
The rapid development of technology has birthed many opportunities for entrepreneurs, including the ability to collaborate remotely or engage with co-workers in satellite offices seamlessly. While there are many benefits to this new way of...
10 Low-Cost Tools to Get Started with Influencer Marketing
This is the year for influencer marketing. Heard that before? That’s because year after year; influencer marketing growth has eclipsed expectations. A recent study of marketers found that 84 percent of businesses have a campaign...
Why Leadership is Crucial to Your Remote Team’s Success
Many people think of a remote entrepreneur as someone relaxing at home in their PJs or sipping margaritas on the beach while occasionally checking in with their employees. Of course, this is inaccurate. Not being...
How to Keep Your Virtual Team Engaged
There’s no doubt the world of work is changing. The internet, the cloud and apps have successfully untethered work from the office. You can run your business from anywhere, which minimizes startup costs and creates...
4 Tips For Managing a Global Startup Team
Technology has made it easier for organizations to operate with team members scattered across the world. As global teams become the norm, leaders need to know how to manage and collaborate with team members that...
3 Management Strategies for Building a Reliable Remote Staff
According to a Gallup survey released in early 2017, remote work has consistently been on the rise since 2012. Forty three percent of employed Americans surveyed said they worked remotely in 2016. The polling agency...
5 Outsourcing Strategies for Startups
Startups nowadays have a lot of tools to streamline tasks. You can simplify bookkeeping with accounting software, stay on the same page with communication apps, or even automate marketing activities via email platforms. But despite...
How to Successfully Manage a Remote Startup Team
As more employees opt to work remotely, marketing managers struggle to find ways to keep teams connected and working together digitally. Individuals want to feel as though they are part of the team but that...