How You Can Connect Your Home in the Digital Age

November 8, 2019


Homeowners consume a fair amount of energy to keep their homes functional and comfortable for their families. Smart home devices, however, can help reduce energy consumption. For example, automated blinds, smart lights, a smart thermostat, smart fridge, smart outlets, and other devices can help homeowners cut back on electricity and HVAC system energy consumption. These smart devices allow you to program them to be used in a particular way and can even automatically adjust how much energy they use based on your daily activities. Take advantage of smart home devices to keep your energy consumption in check.

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What Should You Consider Before Starting Your Driving Lessons

November 1, 2019


Learning to drive is a big step and an important landmark in your life. Passing a driving test opens up so many opportunities and freedoms, so no doubt you’ll be itching to get started.

Before you do though there are a few things you should think about before you even set foot inside a learner vehicle. The main point to think about, aside from organizing a provisional driving license, is how to choose your driving instructor. The instructor you choose will determine how well you do in your driving, how quickly you learn and how quickly you can get to the stage where you are ready to pass your test.

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3 Ways You Can Develop Amazing Products in the Fashion Industry

October 30, 2019


The fashion industry is ever-changing. Good designers are always in demand. People want to look their best while being both stylish and comfortable. Coming up with the inspiration to develop appealing designs is a challenge. Here are three suggestions for fashion businesses to use to come up with winning designs.

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5 Key Elements of a Successful Business

October 24, 2019


So many key things go into the making of a successful business, and while it is true that entrepreneurs measure success in different ways, there are reliable methods of achieving success that should be part of your business process if you want your business to succeed.

This article contains 5 essential elements successful entrepreneurs have used to grow their businesses.

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6 Important Things Most Small Business Owners Don’t Think About

October 21, 2019


When starting a business, there is a lot you know you need to do. You need branding, business cards, a logo, a place to operate from, and you need to understand your market better than anybody else. However, all of this is just half of it.

There are so many things that are easy to forget when you start a business. While you can get away with bringing in some of them at a later date, others must be there from the beginning if you’re to demonstrate any semblance of professionalism.

You mustn’t make the mistakes that others have before you. If you want to guarantee your business hits the ground running, ensure you’ve thought about all of these factors before you open your doors for the first time.

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Retain Your Subscribers with Personalized Nurturing Campaigns

October 10, 2019


No matter the size of your email subscriber list, there’s always an opportunity to improve customer engagement. On the surface, it may seem like your email list is doing great — maybe you have thousands of email subscribers. But when you really dig in, how is the list performing?

Once you start to break it down, chances are good your retention rates may be lower than expected. If that’s the case, you’re not alone. Many companies struggle to find the right strategy to retain customers.

That’s why we are going to dive into the topic of nurturing campaigns for subscriber retention rates.

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Measuring Digital Marketing Plan Effectiveness to Get Superior Results

October 2, 2019


While the idea of marketing effectiveness is something that some executives wish to shy away from due to the creative nature of the promotional world, there are insights that can be drawn from doing so. And, these insights can improve future results for follow-on campaigns.

Let’s see now how measuring digital marketing plans can create superior results.

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How Small Businesses Can Cope with Busy Season

September 25, 2019


It can be difficult for small businesses to compete with larger players in their industry, and at certain times of year, you may find a higher demand for your services or bigger product orders. If you’re a small business, you don’t want to turn down this valuable work, but you also don’t want to miss deadlines or let people down. So, how do you manage your time during a busy season?

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How to Overcome the Challenges of Product Fulfillment

September 7, 2019


Product fulfillment is definitely something that can be a problem for so many businesses  and customers. How many times have you waited for a package that hasn’t come on time? Or how often have you ordered something that they then told you had sold out? It’s a worldwide problem with businesses that just doesn’t seem to be getting better. Because even if one customer will always say that they’ve had a good experience, it only takes one bad experience for them to join the group of people who has a complaint about your business. So, now is the time to think about all of the challenges that you might be facing, that will be causing the problems you’re creating for your customers. So, if you sit back and relax and keep on reading, we might be able to solve a problem or two for you!

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What Can Your Average Employee Do with Data?

September 7, 2019


Up until recently, most companies utilizing business intelligence (BI) software experienced a divide between non-IT employees and stored data. Data was considered the realm of IT experts and data specialists—and therefore it was the responsibility of these teams to run queries and generate reports on behalf of everyone in the company. As you can imagine, this inevitably led to reporting backlogs and more opportunities for miscommunications between teams.

But advances in BI technology have rendered this highly siloed approach all but obsolete. Today, the average non-technical employee can do much, much more with data. Here are a few examples.

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