Business Circle: Page 8

Starting a Business

5 Common Pitfalls That Ruin Businesses -- and How to Avoid Them

Many businesses collapse as a result of common issues. Mitigate them before they do any real damage.

Operations & Logistics

Generate Great PR on a Shoestring Budget With These 5 Tips

Public relations is one of the most valuable and cost-effective pieces of a marketing mix in comparison to other channels

Marketing

3 Benefits of Meeting Face to Face

Even in the digital age, your most powerful sales tool may still be meeting in person.

Marketing

Good Work Plus These 3 Steps Converts New Customers Into Recurring Customers

A happy customer who comes back for more is, literally, money in the bank. Make their experience hassle free from beginning to end.

Marketing

The 5 Types of Customers Fatal to Startups and How Employees Attract Them

Small businesses cringe at these customers, but it might just be the internal team that keeps them coming back.

Marketing

The 3 Types of Marketing Emails That Nobody Has Opened in Years

Email remains the workhorse of online marketing but these steeds have been flogged much too long.

Science & Technology

Is My Data Really Safe? Your Questions About Cloud-Based Storage, Answered.

One expert shares tips to ensure your data stays safe and secure in the cloud.

Leadership

7 Tips to Get Your Team to Actually Listen to You

Whether you are giving a speech, a presentation, or simply running your business, there is no replacement for delivering your message in person and speaking from the heart.

Growing a Business

6 Critical Steps to Succeeding in an Untapped Industry

Pioneers in new fields and innovators face extra risks. Here's how to venture forth wisely.

Health & Wellness

Stress and Entrepreneurism: How to Deal With It

Since there's no realistic way to avoid stress for entrepreneurs, learning to live with and manage it is the key to survival.

Business Process

3 Ways to Beat Referral Fatigue in Sales

While social networking sites have made the task of finding potential customers easier, be sure you're targeting the right people in the correct manner.

Business Process

Surviving Fourth Quarter Madness -- How to Handle the Year-End Sales Crunch

Many sellers push hard to close the year and ultimately come up short. But there are a couple ways to minimize fire drills.

Growing a Business

7 Methods for Analyzing Your Great Idea Before You Bet the Company on It

There is a time when you must fall madly in love with the product you want to bring to market and a time to coolly determine if anybody else will.

Marketing

You'll Market Better and Be More Persuasive Knowing These 10 Brain Facts

Science is unlocking how we humans interpret the world and each other, giving rise to a new approach to sales with the fancy title 'neuromarketing.'

Data & Recovery

4 Reasons Why Quality SEO Will Cost You, and Why It's Worth It

Being cheap when it comes to optimizing your website for the web will most likely bite you in the behind.