• Employee Personality Team
    Management

    5 HR Policies to Decide Before You Hire

    You’ve been running your startup or small business on your own, and it has grown enough that you now need to hire employees. Before you go down the exciting and sometimes stressful road of hiring and onboarding new people, you need to have HR policies in place. Designing HR policies isn’t easy, but with the right research and preparation, you can create solid documents that will prepare your business to have more staff members. Vacation and Time Off Your small business has lots to consider regarding vacation time. How do employees accrue it? How many days, at most, can your employees take each year? Consider whether it’s paid vacation and…

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    Management

    You Can Say Goodbye To Open Plan – The Future Of The Office Looks Like This

    The open plan office was supposed to be the future (just like flying cars). But the more employers experimented with it, the more they realized it didn’t work. The open plan ideal is slowly but surely being supplanted by flexible working spaces that have zones for both concentration and communication. For many employers and workers, this will come as good news. For years, employees in the business of writing reports and data entry have had to listen to music to drown out the general hubbub of the office environment and get their work done. It’s a shame, and it reveals just how badly open plan office design got it wrong.…

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    Marketing

    Top 4 Technologies and Emerging Strategies in Sports Marketing

    All industries experience foundational shifts in the ever-changing technological environment, and sports marketing is no exception. The immense scope of its platform is startling, and franchises and leagues are turning to cutting-edge technology to build winning teams and capitalize on fan passion. The goal is establishing a solid customer base and growing additional revenue sources, such as corporate sponsorship through operational transformations, corporate restructures, and new techniques intended to reach its target audiences. Creating Innovations Shifting criteria, views, beliefs, and expectations of sports consumption requires catering to those unique perspectives. Teams, leagues, athletes, agencies, and media outlets are not only competing for new fan recognition, but are racing against each…

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    Accounting

    Making Profit? Then Your Finance Department Needs These Tools!

    When your startup is making some money, it’s time to think about improving the lot of your employees. After all, if you don’t improve the tools that your employees need to work with, then how do you expect to grow much more? A vibrant and booming business that is seeing some sweet revenue is going to need employees that can help handle all of that money. And that means you’re going to have to hire some finance geeks. Of course, there’s no point in hiring these money wizards if you’re going to under-equip them! How should you prepare for the arrival of new accounts and financial controllers? Here are a…

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    Management

    Scary Scaling Challenges That Could Damage Your Business

    As a promising startup, scaling up your operation should be something you are looking towards. Growth is, in the vast majority of cases, essential to your company’s survival. But it is also a serious problem, and it can pose man challenges that you need to overcome. We’re going to look at the issues that could end up causing you more harm than good unless you are meticulous in your preparation. Read on to find out more. Too fast, too soon One of the biggest issues you will encounter is moving too fast and trying to grow before you are ready. Let’s say you are manufacturing a brand new product. On…

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    Online Business

    Get Your Business Online And On The Path To Success

    If you’re planning to operate your business entirely online, you need to consider exactly what this means. First, you need to be aware that will be almost completely reliant on technology. If you think about it, this is just common sense. If your tech ceases to function, your business effectively ceases to exist, and it’s as simple as that. Your website and shop will quickly lose traffic and a disaster like this can take months to recover from. Throughout these months, your brand is dead and buried. When you get back online, you’ll be starting again from square one. It’s not a pretty picture, is it? Well, fear not because…

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    Marketing

    Four Ways To Protect Your Online Marketing Efforts

    Whether you do all of your business online or you are only on there to market your business, it’s important to protect yourself and your efforts. You don’t want someone stealing your ideas, hacking your Facebook account, or using your email address to spam the world. There are a bazillion ways to protect yourself online, depending on what you are doing with your internet access. Your marketing efforts may cause you to need something as protective as a Trademark or a Copyright, but those can be daunting and sometimes unnecessary depending on your business, products, or the words you use in your advertising. Rather, here are a few if the…