Business Circle: Page 7

Growing a Business

Quit Relying on Your Intuition When Hiring Your Sales Team

There are reliable, objective means to determine who will succeed at sales, even if they've never sold anything and don't look as though they could.

Growing a Business

How to Get an Enormous User Base Without Spending a Dime on Marketing

It's no secret most startups have little to no marketing budget. However, this shouldn't be a deterrent to success.

Marketing

Sincerity and Transparency Are the Keys to Genuine Customer Loyalty

Many so-called customer loyalty programs fail because they seem a rigged game to the purchaser. There are plenty of ways to do it right.

Marketing

4 Essential Pieces of an Awesome Content-Marketing Strategy

To book awareness of your brand, look beyond your blog and create content in these hot formats.

Growing a Business

The 5 Essentials of Choosing a Consultant

These outside advisers can create tremendous value for your business, but it's important the person your contract checks off these items.

Marketing

The Holiday Mobile-Marketing Strategy That Retailers Really Need

Here are six strategies that companies must have in place to woo customers this holiday season.

Marketing

Want Customers to Market Your Brand? Make Them Look Awesome.

Take a page out of the Facebook and GoPro playbook by allowing clients to showcase themselves for all the world to see.

Fundraising

Don't Let These 5 Excuses Stop You From Networking

Often, when it comes to building relationships, the same excuses surface repeatedly with entrepreneurs. Here is how to get past them.

Marketing

How to Market to Gen Z, the Kids Who Already Have $44 Billion to Spend

The younger siblings of millennials already have enormous buying power and have emerged as a distinct consumer demographic.

Health & Wellness

3 Tactics for Dealing With the Stress of Running a Business

You don't have to get everything done, you just have to get everything important done. Now, sleep on it.

Science & Technology

5 Apps That Never Forget Your Passwords and Require You to Remember Just One

The most common mistake people make with their online security is to have one password for everything but now you can do it safely.

Growing a Business

Customer Experience Should Not Be the Job of Just One Person

Structure your organization so that responsibility for overseeing consumer interactions is shared across the whole company.

Culture

5 Reasons to Refrain From Hiring Virtual Employees

Despite the growing popularity of telecommuting, having an all-remote work environment might absolutely kill a business.

Marketing

What You Must Look for When Hiring Your First Head of Marketing

When hiring someone to lead your marketing efforts, make sure they possess these characteristics.

Employee Experience & Recruiting

7 Payroll Items to Check Off Your List Before the Year Ends

From preparing for performance reviews to organizing receipts for taxes, an early start now will avoid headaches later.