Is your small business causing stress and employee burnout? Recognizing and preventing burnout will help with turnover rates and decreasing productivity. Approximately 61% of Americans said that work was their biggest source of stress in 2017, according to the American Psychological Association. And when job stress increases or continues for a prolonged period of time,...
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Designing Art For Label Printing: What To Keep In Mind
Retail product label printing starts with a good initial art design concept that meets your marketing objectives and attracts customers in final product placement First impressions matter, and this is especially true when selling a product in a retail setting. When a potential customer walks by, you want to communicate a visual message in a...
How To Compartmentalize Saving and Making Money In Your Growing Business
Saving money for your business by cutting non-essential costs and prioritizing spend will help you maximize your budgets for optimal growth Congratulations! You’ve started the small business that you’ve always dreamed of. Now, although you’re hardly surprised, you find yourself overextended and under-financed. The problem is, your business is growing, but costs are too. If...
Tech for Tots: KidTech Changing the Technology Landscape
New small businesses like KidTech with a strategy focusing on kid technology products and services are prime to succeed in new kid-friendly digital environment We’ve come to a unique juncture as a society. Where 20 to 30 years ago, technology was really just being brought onto the scene (minimally, at that), now toddlers have no...
Going Guerrilla: How To Harmonize Online and Offline Marketing Efforts
Your online and offline marketing efforts should work together, and guerrilla marketing techniques will help you maximize combined results Online marketing is slowly taking over the role that traditional, offline, marketing once occupied. That certainly doesn’t mean you can abandon traditional marketing techniques altogether. Quite the opposite, actually. You are now tasked with the job...
DIY Ways to Spice Up Your Office Art and Get Your Employees Involved
Create an engaging and inspiring office environment for your small business on a small budget using some creative DIY art ideas Art in the workplace is way more important than you might actually think. It can be used to easily transform an empty room and take it from drab to fab. Wall art and other...
The More You Know: Employee Theft Common in Non-Profits
Employee theft is a common occurrence in many different businesses. But, what about employee theft in non-profits? Many non-profits across the United States are seeing problems with their employees taking the money the group receives and using it for their personal lives. According to The Boston Globe, one non-profit is still trying to recover. When...
How Organizations Can Better Deal With Workplace Compliance Issues
Even small business managers need to ensure a focus on workplace compliance and company culture for the company to succeed For a company to remain successful, the entire organization must operate at its highest potential. Every department must do its own part to result in a company-wide positive performance. Every individual must do the same....
Business Travel May Be Causing Psychological Problems, New Study Shows
Is business trip anxiety and stress impacting your small business success or productivity? Studies show it can happen. Frequent business trips may be causing your anxiety and depression, new research shows. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Americans who frequently travel on business are more likely to...
7 New Year’s Resolutions To Boost Your Productivity In 2018
Boost your small business productivity in 2018 with simple, but effective, professional hacks that will revamp the way you work As 2017 turned to 2018, you may have felt a sense of renewal. Perhaps you are looking to make some changes in your personal life or finally stick with that workout routine. No matter your...