Getting great talent to work for a company can be very hard. Why not use your current employees to help you find your next ones? To find out how, we asked members of the Young Entrepreneur Council the following question on how to encourage your employees to help you acquire better new employees. “Building a talented team […]
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It’s time to drop your preconceived notions about millennials right here at the beginning of this article. You may think you know who millennials are — maybe you are one yourself, or you have a child who falls into this category – but you’re probably sorely mistaken. Stereotypes offer us valuable and efficient mental shortcuts
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You may not think there are that many bad bosses out there. But think again: Clearly, the idea of a horrible boss rings true with enough people that the movie Horrible Bosses was a hit, spawning Horrible Bosses 2. (Rumors of a Horrible Bosses 3 remain just rumors as of this writing, but there seems
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While bringing in customers is important for your small business controlling your costs is also key to keeping your doors open. This means negotiating with suppliers to keep costs down. Kevin Moll president of Restaurant Consulting Services, has helped restaurateurs negotiate with suppliers and run various other aspects of their businesses for decades. He recently
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A recent survey of America’s small business owners suggests more than half or 53% count the cost of providing healthcare insurance for their employees as a key concern. Worried About the Cost of Small Business Health Insurance Healthcare costs eat up a huge chunk of the small business operation budget. According to the NFIB’s Index
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Stop sabotaging your own best efforts with negative self-talk. It takes almost no time to find articles and stories that will tell you about the good habits or motivational mantras of people who have achieved success in their chosen field. But, as interesting and inspirational as those articles can be, they only tell half of the story. Many people
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Changing your business model can be a tough decision to make, but it’s crucial for some business owners who are in it for the long run. Industries evolve and markets change. Not to mention, your goals and values as an entrepreneur will change over time as well. In many cases, you’ll need to pivot and change your
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If you want your small business to grow and thrive, you’ll need to embrace change. If your business is fairly established, then change can represent a pretty big risk making some business owners uneasy. But failure to change can get your left behind, as plenty of retail store owners, travel agents and newspaper publishers can
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What follows are our 10 most popular articles for May 2018, recognizing that articles we published earlier in the month are more likely to make the list than later ones. 7 Reasons to Consider USPS Flat Rate Shipping The United States Postal Service offers flat rate boxes and envelopes that may help online stores reduce
When an item in an ecommerce store is temporarily out of stock, the site can add a notice or send a message to a shopper. But what should an online store do when a product is permanently out of stock? If that store simply deleted the product detail page and served up a 404-error page, it
