Starbucks Christmas Paper Cups: How to Promote Your Brand

December 5, 2016

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How attached are you to your humble takeaway coffee cup? While you may answer “not very”, the majority of us are more passionate about the paper cup than we might realise. Many retailers have special promotion during Christmas time to introduce special drink or packaging. While some of the special promotions may go unnoticed others become very popular. In fact consumers may come to expect them year after year. So what can a simple coffee cup can do to promote your brand? Paper cup retailer Inn Supplies explains…

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How to Get Started with Enterprise E-commerce

December 5, 2016

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If you want to take your standard e-commerce store to the next level, you will have to be prepared to enter the world of enterprise e-commerce. This generally means that you will be offering multiple types of products and/or services on your site, and the many departments throughout your business will end up using the same set of technical and financial resources, as well as the same general management team. In order to do all of that, you will need to invest in the right enterprise e-commerce tools that will help you succeed. Check out the tips below on how you can get started with enterprise e-commerce easily.

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Small Business Owners: Outsource These Tasks to Succeed and Grow

December 2, 2016

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What lessons can we learn from the great entrepreneurs? Was it just their incredible personalities and individual capacities that propelled them to success? Or is it something to do with the fact that they understood how to leverage the talents of others?

Seasoned entrepreneurs know that if they try to do everything, they’ll crash and burn. There simply isn’t enough time in the day, not to mention the fact that they’re not qualified to carry out half of the tasks that need doing in their business. But despite this, newbies seem to believe that they have to do everything, filling every minute of the day with one task or another. It’s a recipe for disaster.

Here, we’re going to investigate some of the ways that companies can reduce their workload and get experts in to manage certain aspects of their business. The solution is easy, outsource more, do less.

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How to Prepare for Emergency Ahead of Time in Small Business

December 1, 2016

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Things don’t always run as smoothly as you would expect in a small business. This is why you have to be able to react quickly to all kinds of situations and be ready for all types of problems and emergencies. For example, if the pizza oven breaks down in the local pizzeria he has no choice but to fix it right away no matter what the cost is. Having a good rolodex with the names of service providers who can react quickly and fix your problems on a moment’s notice is very important. Here are some of the critical service providers you need to keep handy in case of emergency.

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Smartphone conversions will catch up with desktops – but only if you let them

November 30, 2016

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Despite industry-wide predictions and warnings, many digital marketers still focus heavily on their desktop’s conversion rate whilst leaving mobile devices as an afterthought.

Conversion rates on smartphones are growing fast. They might not have caught up with desktops just yet, but the rate of growth on desktops isn’t nearly as fast as that on smartphones.

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Follow These Tips to Take Your Business to the Next Level

November 29, 2016

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Perhaps your small business has been doing okay, or even pretty well. However, you are ready to take it to the next level. One small problem (actually not so small) – You are unsure where to start. The choices are overwhelming. Focus on social media? Focus on expansion? Focus on renovating the interior of the main office? What is a business owner to do? Hopefully, the tips that follow will help you gain a measure of clarity.

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How to Be Your Own Boss with Online Business Opportunities

November 29, 2016

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Have you ever aspired to be a small business owner and proprietor, getting away from the humdrum daily work grind and taking control of your own business; to be your own boss, dictating the moves that drive your business? Or perhaps your dreams of prosperity have been on a grander, glitzier scale, such as that of a freewheeling entrepreneur, having fun while making a real nice income, much like a casino owner enjoys. Today, both these dreams can be realized together online, quickly and easily, with minimal investment and maximum earning potential.

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5 Productivity Tips to Get More Done In Less Time

November 28, 2016

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Ask any entrepreneur or small business owner what they would like to have more of. Chances are 9 out of 10 of them will say they’d like more time. When dealing with hundreds of tasks on any given day, having more time on their calendar is something they all wish they had. The unfortunate reality is that  you  can’t invent more time, but you can do more in a given amount of time. The productivity tips explained in this article can help you achieve just that. Continue reading to find out how.

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Solid Tips for Finding Jobs on LinkedIn

November 28, 2016

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LinkedIn has become a de facto place to go to for finding jobs. Whether you are a recent college grad or a veteran with several years of experience if you do not have a profile on LinkedIn and don’t know how to make the best use of all the available features for job search you are missing out on one of the best tools for finding jobs. Unfortunately, many people don’t understand how LinkedIn works and how to make best use of all the features. Below we highlight some of the key feature you can leverage.

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Robotics and the Future of Skilled Jobs in Manufacturing Industry

November 28, 2016

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No matter how one were to look at it, robotics is undeniably the future of manufacturing. Many of the world’s largest firms have already signed off on the gradual replacement of the majority of their human workforce in favour of a mechanical one that is both highly sophisticated and highly precise. Truth be told, it’s easy to understand why; automated robotics allow companies to continually produce their goods at a consistently tireless pace that simply cannot be matched – even by the most dexterous of hands. Tireless as they may be, the true value of a robotic workforce lies in its ability to deliver perfection in terms of production and assembly at a diminishing cost to the owner.

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