Start Lean, Stay Lean: 4 Ways to Shape Up Your Operation
As a startup founder, you have a lot of dreams to accomplish on a limited budget. One way to make sure you accomplish your goals is by focusing on efficiency right away. You can start...
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How to Leverage Customer Insights to Drive New Customer Acquisition Strategy
At its core, leveraging customer insights lets your business look into the hearts and minds of current and potential buyers. Tapping into customer insights offers a way to take the pulse of your target audience,...
4 Major Obstacles Every Entrepreneur Must Overcome
With very few exceptions, the road to successful entrepreneurship has never been without its obstacles. Even during the best of times, blazing new ground in the business world has always been risky. After all, if...
How To (Safely) Set Up a Crypto Wallet for Your Small Business
As a business owner, you're always looking for new and innovative ways to reduce costs and increase profits while providing better service and more value to your customers. You've probably heard of Bitcoin and other...
A Beginner’s Guide to Business Success in the Metaverse
There’s no hiding from it: The metaverse is coming, and it’s on track to disrupt the world of business as we know it. Championed by newly rebranded Meta (formerly Facebook), the metaverse will be a...
5 Ways Startups Can Get Started with AI
AI (artificial intelligence) has fast become one of the best tools for growing a business — and in some cases, has even been the launchpad for new businesses in and of itself. As companies look...
Why Having the Right Advisors When Launching a Startup is So Crucial
When startups don’t have the right advisors, they waste time, money, energy and human resources — but that’s not all. According to Svetlana Kamyshanskaya, a startup advisor with extensive connections in Silicon Valley and founder...
11 Reasons Why You Need a Side Hustle
Side hustles aren’t new, but they’re more popular than ever. Especially now, with so many ways to make money online, more and more people are deciding to pursue a side hustle. A 2021 survey from...
Navigating Supply Chain Disruption: 7 Strategies for Small Businesses
According to the weekly pulse data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau Small Business Pulse Survey, domestic supplier delays were reported by 46% of small businesses at the end of November, up from 27% reported a...
How to Leverage Your Full-Time Job to Fund Your Entrepreneurial Dreams
When I accepted a position at a software development company after college, I was clear with them from the start. During the interview, they asked about my passion and my goals. I shared that I...
Need Extra Cash? Pursue a Side Hustle
On this segment of "The Pre W. Smith Show," Jeff Sloan shares ideas on side hustles you can pursue during inflationary times, or any time you need some extra cash. Tune in for the full...
4 Skills to Master for Business Success
Do you have a dream of creating and launching your own company? Well, you’re not alone. However, not all start-ups will become long-lasting business ventures. To beat the odds, you’ll need to have more than...
How Dell Helps Maximize Remote Work Productivity
As work from home becomes more standard, IT professionals are being challenged with rapidly deploying and supporting a growing number of home-based users who need consistent access to corporate applications. Among the considerations IT leaders...
What Is a Social Media Target Audience, and How Do You Find It?
Most modern companies know that having an online social presence is essential. It's rare to come across a business without at least a website or a Facebook page. However, an excellent digital marketing strategy involves...
7 Mistakes That Could Hurt Your Business
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 70% of businesses fail within the first 10 years of operation. Approximately 20% fail during the first year, and 30% of all startup companies will fail by the...
Top 10 Habits of Successful Entrepreneurs
Decades of research have shown that the super-rich have a lot in common. They share the same mentality, for example, as well as a number of the habits they follow in their personal lives. To...
How To Support And Engage Introverted People In Remote Teams
The combination of introversion and remote teams can be daunting for both the employees and their team leaders. While many understand that they should not ignore this situation, it can be challenging to know where...
How to Build and Fund a Startup as a Black Woman
Securing funding for a startup relies heavily on the connections you have among investors, as well as your ability to attract attention to your business. What happens when those investors are mostly upper-class white men,...
How to Choose the Right Business Partner for Your Startup
Successfully taking a seed of an idea, turning it into a product or service, and forming a full-fledged company is based on a series of critical decisions. Who you choose to go on that ride...
The Benefits of Doing a Social Audit
For millions, social media is little more than a place to post the latest selfies and food pics, but as an entrepreneur, you know it has much more to offer. With nearly half of the...