Top 7 Hiring Mistakes for Startup Businesses

Avoid these pitfalls and build a team of talented employees.
Building great teams is never easy.
A quick look at the sports world confirms this. Coaches come and go, players are free to seek new teams and owners are free to sign players who fit certain roles within the limits of payroll.
In business, it’s equally difficult. [...]

5 Ways to Keep Abreast of What’s Happening in Your Niche

While learning about things outside your niche is always encouraged too, you should always be on the look out for new strategies and trends that pertain to yours. This will be incredibly beneficial to you for staying competitive. Your thoughts?.
Following are a few tools you should be using to do just that.
1. StumbleUpon
StumbeUpon [...]

12 Reasons for Investing in a Franchise

There are some obvious advantages in investing in a franchise, the most important being that you will be buying into a tried and tested business concept. It may more expensive, (although there are some low cost franchise oppotunities out there), than starting your own business in the same sort of market but it does bring [...]

Places to leave your stamp offline?

Obviously you can purchase advertising space in newspapers, magazines, radio, television, etc. But lets face it, paying for ad space can get pricey, so let’s look at a few cheaper ways to brand your business away from the computer, because shockingly, some people still don’t spend their entire day on the Internet.
Stickers
Giving your customers free [...]

50 office-speak phrases you love to hate

Management speak – don’t you just hate it? Here are the 50 of the best (worst) examples.
1. “When I worked for Verizon, I found the phrase going forward to be more sinister than annoying. When used by my boss – sorry, “team leader” – it was understood to mean that the topic of conversation [...]

14 things you can learn from the Google story

Connections – human, computer, biology – are everything. Life = networks.
Never compromise your ideals because someone said it’s impossible, stupid, or a waste of time.
Do focus on changing the world, don’t focus on the money. If you provide value, the money will come.
Have a healthy disregard for the impossible. If someone hasn’t done it yet, [...]

What’s in a name?

It begins with an idea that you can’t stop thinking about. Eventually, after discussions with friends and family and many hours working with spreadsheets or a calculator, the idea becomes a decision to start a business.
Once you have made that decision there are suddenly many more things to think about, with the first one being [...]

Five myths about entrepreneurs

Many myths have arisen about entrepreneurs. These ideas are the result of a lack of research and understanding. As many researchers in the field have noted, the study of entrepreneurship is still emerging, and thus “folklore” will tend to prevail until it is dispelled with contemporary research findings.
Here are the five most notable myths:
Myth 1: [...]

Top Ten Business Do’s and Dont’s

Here are some important overall considerations you need to think about before starting your business:
THE TOP TEN DO’S WHEN STARTING A BUSINESS

Live frugally and begin saving up money for starting your business.
Learn your intended business by working for someone else in the same business first.
Consider the benefits of starting a moonlight business.
Consider [...]

Wake Up Call – People Use the Internet to Shop

Results from a survey conducted by Cambridge-based Internet design and marketing company, Netflare revealed some startling statistics about small businesses and eCommerce.
Stats like:
- 23% of sites hadn’t been updated since their launch leading to inaccurate and obsolete content
- Only 8% even had an eCommerce element to their site
- 25% had no way of tracking online [...]