Small Business Mistakes That’ll Get You in Trouble With the Law
So you’ve started a new small business. You’ve consulted an attorney and filed the appropriate documents with your state’s department of state and determined your incorporation status. But are you sure you’re covering yourself legally in all facets?
Whether you are a sole proprietorship, a corporation, an S corporation, a partnership, a limited liability corporation, …
How to Avoid Burnout
If you are a workaholic, committed to work too much or just spend your time between work and office while doing nothing else during the week, then, chances are that you may start to feel overwhelmed, exhausted and even depressed. Below you can find some hints for motivating yourself and avoid feeling burned out.
Sleep…
Self-Reflection Helps Your Personal Brand
A business friend of mine – Garret – once played a mischievous trick on his employees. He pulled out their resumes from his file and made a few changes to them. He altered the employees’ names, the names of the companies they’d worked for, and other details that would identify each employee. At the next …
Use Agile Marketing to Bring More Visibility to Your Brand
Being ready for the next big trend or story is essential to building your personal brand online. But in order to effectively stay on track with what is going on in your market, it is important to have good research and analytics in place.
Are your conversations in alignment with what’s being shared on social …
Mastering Hygiene on LinkedIn
Have you done a LinkedIn Checkup lately?
If not, now is the time.
It won’t take long and it’s not hard.
Over the last few weeks I have written a series of posts about Mastering LinkedIn. The topics were purposely short and consumable. I created short videos for each of them and posted the written …
OverTagging: Crime and Punishment
Tagging is an essential part of a solid social media marketing strategy. It helps you interact with both your current audience and those you want to woo into your fold. However, there have been enough cases of overtagging that Facebook, Twitter and Instagram all have their own brands of justice when it comes to dealing …
How to Interview by Talking about the Future . . .
. . . But first, what do you know and understand about the future? The average person born in the latter years of the baby boom (1957–64) has held 11 jobs from age 18 years to 46, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That trend indicates that in the future, the velocity at …
Use this Strategy to Realize Several Success Strategies
A public speaking class offers more to students than just the art of how to present on a stage. The most important lesson is how to speak with confidence. And the second is how to adjust the stories to a variety of platforms.
Identical to these lessons is the strategy of developing a sound personal …
5 Professionals to Hire to Grow Your Business
When your business is just getting off the ground, it’s often just you and your partners burning both the midnight oil and the candle at both ends. Once you’re going somewhere, it can be a great learning experience to handle all components of business operations — but eventually, you’re going to need help.
As your …
17 Ways to Strengthen Your Personal Brand Through Networking
The following answers are provided by members of Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, YEC recently launched BusinessCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs …