If you are running a business, contracts are an essential tool to understand the duties involved from each party. Contracts are needed to level expectations, state the deliverables, and specify each of the parties’ responsibilities. It is also a means to control your costs as the business owner. But whether you are using contracts for your service business, for your suppliers or advertisers, the key question remains: Do you update your contracts?
Managing a Business
How Zoominfo Got Our Business Information Wrong
This article explains how Zoominfo.com got our business information incorrect. Learn how zoominfo get their data, and how they screwed up our information on their listing
How to Deal with Angry Customers: 5 Ways of Keeping Your Cool
Our goal in business is to please our customers. However, no matter how hard we try, we sometimes have to deal with angry customers. Learn how to deal with angry customers.
Your Most Valuable Business Asset
To beat the tough economic times and improve your business, you need to learn the most powerful weapon that all businesses have and is FREE to use at no extra cost.
Square: Making it Easy to Accept Credit Card Payments
Square allows you to collect credit card payments through your mobile phone and iPad devices. The company is shaping up as a viable alternative for small businesses, with its ease of use and friendlier fee structure. Learn whether Square is a good option for you.
Are Your Communication Strategies Really Engaging Employees?
Employee engagement is a shared understanding of the issues that affect the business, and that understanding leads to changes in employees’ attitudes and behaviors. If you have employees, how engaged are your employees?
7 Mistakes Made by New (and Even Some Seasoned) Business Leaders
The challenges facing businbess leaders today is never ending and we get caught up in the stuff necessary to accomplish the immediate task at hand and we sometimes lose site of the ultimate goal or mission. Here are seven of the most common pitfalls that will blow any leader off course:
The Role of Decisiveness in Achieving Results
Read some advice from Denny F. Strigl, former president and CEO of Verizon Wireless, on how to become an effective manager. One core quality he looks for in a manager is decisiveness — he wants managers to make decisions and take action. When decisions need to be made, effective managers gather the facts, analyze the situation, consider alternatives, and decide on the best course of action — and they do it quickly.
How Entrepreneurs Should Face Business Challenges and Manage Change
As an entrepreneur, you will constantly be faced with business challenges, and chief among them is managing change. When your small business is faced with a challenge, here are 7 steps you should take.
Lessons from a Shopping Mall
Shopping malls are changing, just as the behavior, lifestyle and attitudes of their customers are evolving. Your business has to learn how to adapt to the changing times if you want to survive and thrive. Stay ahead of the trend or risk being squashed by it!