This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of SharpSpring CRM for IZEA Worldwide. All opinions are 100% mine. SharpSpring was launched back in 2014 as a full suite marketing tool to help businesses boost their marketing automation. Since then, the company has built a customer base of 1500 digital marketing agencies worldwide and more than 7,000 businesses. Today, … [Read more...]
3 Ways To Improve Your Small Business’ Image
If you have a business that’s struggling with its image, whether it’s due to some bad press in recent times or simply because you’re a young organization still trying to round out your branding, there’s a multitude of things you can do that can help build your brand image and turn your business into just what you’ve imagined it being. And while these things will take some … [Read more...]
Common Issues You Might Face as You Decide to Work from Home Full-Time
Working full-time at home is an excellent opportunity to earn money. You have the chance to make an income without sacrificing your duties as a parent and a partner. You can send your children to school in the morning and prepare your home before your partner arrives at night. Your time is more flexible than those who are working full-time in a common office. Not all jobs … [Read more...]
Could Your Business Use A Crutch?
We hope you know what we’re talking about here. Sometimes your business is just going to need a little bit of a pick me up. Something to lean on in times of trouble, so a crutch as it were. When a business starts to wobble a little bit, it can just send pure panic through the whole company. Whether the whole company is you, or whether you have a couple of people working for … [Read more...]
Curating The Best: Know Where To Invest Regarding Your Team
Your employees are the essential elements that keep your small business running smoothly and successfully. In the competitive, creative market; fresh ideas and innovative focus are crucial to the development and growth of a company. Therefore, it’s vital that you invest in your team’s talents and ensure that they’re happy and fulfilled in their workplace; they will appreciate … [Read more...]
5 Benefits Of Hiring Temporary Staff For Your Small Business
When you run a small business, you have a lot of things to think about. You’ll need to manage the finances, the stock and most importantly the employees that you hire. For some small businesses, the idea of hiring a lot of employees from the get-go can seem daunting as you don’t know how fast your business is going to take off and you don’t want to risk over hiring. This is … [Read more...]
Workplace Camaraderie: Why It Matters & How to Boost It
When you’re running a business, it’s easy to get caught up in what you can measure: performance trends, analytics, objectives and deliverables. But it’s often the “softer stuff,” i.e. less-tangible characteristics of a company that determines whether it sinks or swims. Why? Because company culture is not always measurable in hard data; getting a feel for it requires … [Read more...]
Top Lead Generation Tips Every Small Business Owner Needs to Know
Marketing is a complicated game that's constantly changing and developing. To help your brand stay on top and to keep your site high in Google, you need to be constantly aware of the newest strategies and as fully informed as you possibly can be at all times. You should be constantly reading, constantly learning, and absorbing any information you can find - because every new … [Read more...]
5 Smart Habits Every Design Agency Should Develop To Amplify Productivity
At the core of a design agency, execution of creative ideas is essential to prosper. However, the bottom line of any business lies on one thing and that is how you go about managing your project operations and team. The key discovery here is to be productive in whatever you do. However, if you fail to deliver your ideas in the required timeframe, you will eventually lose … [Read more...]
Cruising Out Of Unprecedented Financial Crisis
The present economic scenario is most likely to present unprecedented crisis in front of a business man. It is because of the fact that the situations change every now and then with introduction of new technology in the business, where you may be required to adopt some new software to facilitate easy transaction for your customers. It also happens that you may require … [Read more...]