How Can Indoor Navigation Maps Help Businesses Attract More Customers


Imagine you are going out of town to negotiate and sign multi-million dollar contract. You are already late for your flight and now you cannot find you way around a large airport. Missing the flight is not an option as you stand to lose multi-million dollar sales opportunity. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a navigation map of the airport on your phone that tells you precisely where the departure gate of your flight is located and the fastest route to get there? Having such a map provided by the airport to the passengers not only helps them navigate and find the gate easily, but it also helps airport owners increase customer satisfaction and improve overall operations.

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5 reasons to Consider Subscription Model for Your Business


As Internet access becomes a more and more indispensible commodity, new ways of doing business have also emerged. As a society, we’ve experienced ecommerce boom and on-the-go shopping with mobile apps. As Internet usage grows, it’s logical to think that the focus of online businesses would be on increasing the volume of transactions proportional to the number of online shoppers. However, the exact opposite seems to be unfolding: innovative businesses are leaning more towards fewer transactions.

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6 Steps to Creating Precise Instructions when Outsourcing Projects


In this day and age, companies have a lot more flexibility and different options are available to them when it comes to dealing with business growth, and outsourcing has become a common tactic used to save time and reduce expenses.

If you have researched how to outsource your projects properly, it means that you have already chosen to take your business to the next level. Now, all you need to do is to make sure that you have created precise instructions for all your outsourcing projects, so here are a few guidelines you should pay attention to.

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5 Tips to Successfully Enter New Markets for Business Growth

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All businesses are faced with the prospect of finding ways to enter new markets. Having conquered a local market, looking at extending a business’s reach is often the only room for growth. Yet, if a product or solution you provide in your local market is well accepted, there is no guarantee that other markets will warm to it so easily. It pays to research the market you are looking to enter and to be consumer-centric, but what does that really mean? Here are a few ideas to get you going.

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What do You Need to Know before Starting an Engineering Business

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Engineering is one of the most reliable, thriving industries out there. No matter how the economy is performing, there will always be a demand for good engineers. We will always continue to build higher, explore further, and invent new technologies. Engineers are at the heart of these industries, and there’s a secure, exciting future ahead. However, not all of us fit the mold for working at a traditional engineering firm.

Some engineers also have an entrepreneurial heart. After all, the engineers are the world’s best inventors. So, how does an engineer start building a business? How do they compete with the biggest companies in the industry? In this post, we’ll dig into the specifics of starting an engineering company. Think you’ve got what it takes?

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3 Cardinal Business Investment Rules You Must Not Break

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There are many different aspects to think about when it comes to investing your business profits. Before you jump into investing your hard earned money you should think about risks associated with those investments and ensure you don’t end up losing all the profit, and some. It helps to establish certain rules for yourself that you can follow and ensure you don’t deviate too much from them. These rules can be different for different people depending on their unique situation and risk tolerance. Below we provide some common rules that you can use as a guide to come up with your own.

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Everything You Wanted to Know about Peer to Peer Currency Exchange

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For many people currency exchange is like dark matter. They do not understand how it works and some don’t even to know where to go to exchange currency. They simply do not have frequent need for it. Majority of the people end up exchanging their currency at the airport when they land in the foreign country. While this is very convenient they end up paying high commission fee for it. Recently a new trend has emerged that bypasses these middlemen. It is called peer to peer exchange and it is not only convenient, but also saves you significant money in fees. So what is peer to peer currency exchange and how does it work?

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5 Ways to Diversify Your Business for Greater Profit

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In today’s fast-paced business world, diversification is key if you want to remain ahead of the competition and increase your net income. Simply remaining within a single product or service can have a negative impact on the ability for your business to survive. Many large organizations are also seeing this potential threat and merging with other businesses or expanding their own in order to meet the demands of society. So how can you diversify your business without stretching yourself too thin. There are number of avenues to do that. Here are top 5 ways in which you can accomplish diversification:

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Maximize Revenue with Cross Selling and Upselling

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It is estimated that it costs 6-7 more to acquire new customer than to keep the existing customer. Yet many small business owners spend much of their time, money and energy in chasing new customers. A better strategy is to make existing customers buy more from you. Think about it. Your current customers already love your products and services. The fact that they are sticking with you means that they are willing to buy more if you can offer it with the right value proposition. This is how Amazon has built a an online empire to sell everything and anything a customer would want. Cross selling and upselling are classic techniques business owners can employ to maximize their revenue from existing customers. Here is an Infographic that shows how you can develop a roadmap to succeed in cross selling and upselling.

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Why Wholesaling is a Popular Retail Model for Business

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Now that the world economy is on the mend and we’re finally back to growth levels of 2008, many people are looking to capitalise on the wealth that’s out there in people’s pockets. If your dream is to run your own retail store there’s only one form of retail that you should consider: wholesaling.

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