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Another week brings another conference. This time around I headed to Boston. (Which is enemy territory for a Rams fan! But I digress.) There I attended Sugar Connection, hosted by SugarCRM. Sugar launched 15 years ago. But the last two years saw a serious transformation, including private equity Read More

There are many ways you can reward the hard work of your employees.
Compensation, benefits, recognition and appreciation address key areas in the employer/employee reward system.
While compensation, benefits and recognition are obvious options, there are a lot of ways to say “Job Well Done!”.
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working at their business.
Turns out that’s becoming more than just a cliche.
This week, we came across new information in the MetLife & U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Index indicating just how much the average small business owner works in a week.
The number is not healthy, according t Read More

Small businesses know that mentors are a major driver of growth. Small Business Trends contacted Innovation and Disruption Keynote Speaker Bonin Bough to get some advice SMBs can use. Bough is a renowned marketing executive also known as host of the CNBC show Cleveland Hustlers. Read More

Every business has different needs and qualities, which means they all need different tactics and strategies to move forward. Learning lessons from other brands and tailoring your methods to your specific customers can help you greatly when it comes to growing your business. Check out these tips fr Read More

How do you get motivated and who gets you motivated?
When it comes to people who motivate others, the speakers at the Real Estate Wealth Expo have it covered.
At this event Sylvester Stallone, Tony Robbins, Grant Cardone, Gary Vaynerchuk, James Harris, Trent Shelton and nine Self-Made Millionaire Read More

Dreaming of working from your laptop? Working remotely can be as glamorous or as basic as you want it to be. The key is that it’s flexible and allows you more freedom.
One of the best ways to earn a full-time income from your laptop is to create products that help people and sell them online.
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Funny cartoon (The Numbers Presented to the Team Were a Total Fairy Tale) by Mark Anderson. Here is an alternative way of presenting the data... Read More

Small businesses are discovering it is getting harder to find talent in an economy with historically low unemployment. Not only are they competing with businesses in their segment, but also large enterprises.
This means they have to get creative to find and retain the available talent in the marke Read More

Back from another conference! This time it was Oracle’s big annual user conference OpenWorld in San Francisco. And baked into that conference is NetSuite’s (acquired by Oracle a few years ago) SuiteConnect event. There I caught up with a few small business friends including Melinda Emerson (aka S Read More