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5 pricing hacks that can instantly boost your profits

I’ve often seen entrepreneurs pour their hearts into designing the perfect product, only to undersell themselves when it’s time to set the price.

It’s a tricky dance: we don’t want to scare away potential customers, but we also don’t want to undervalue our hard work.

I’ve had my share of sleepless nights, tweaking numbers and …

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Lesser-Known Entrepreneurs You Should Know About

Name one lesser-known entrepreneur with a great personal brand that you admire and why.

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 StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs …

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How Organizational Leadership Fits With Human Resources

Organizational leadership is often paired with human resources. Some see the two as different sides of the same coin while others view it as two separate disciplines. While each plays a specific role, they do overlap in certain areas.

Human resources focuses primarily on the employment process from recruitment to termination and is task-focused. HR …

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5 Ways to Boost Collaboration During Remote Work

Without face-to-face interactions, collaboration can be a challenge in remote work. In its stead are virtual meetings, which The New Yorker dubs as “a diminished simulacrum of the conference-table gatherings that drive so much of corporate life.” In other words, virtual meetings cannot approximate the richness of in-person interactions. Spontaneous hallway conversations, ‘water cooler’ talk, …

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4 Keys to Successful Teamwork

Effective teamwork is the number one rule of an organization’s success. It has many benefits such as increased productivity, improved work quality, increased employee morale and etc.  Putting together a great team may seem like a simple task. Hire the best individuals and there you go! Unfortunately, it doesn’t work like that in the real …

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3 Personalities Who Ruin Meetings

In every office, there are types of people that make the meetings miserable. This week I combined the 3 most frequent types of personalities that ruin meetings, enjoy!

Multi-Tasker: The multi-taskers bring their laptops and cell phones to the meeting and constantly keep working on their laptops and check their phones all the time. They…
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10 Differences Between a Manager and a Leader

When you get promoted to the role of a manager, unfortunately you don’t automatically become a leader. Although these two words can be used interchangeably, they represent two completely different traits. Being a leader is much different than being a manager. There are important differences between the two and below you can find 10 of …

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Small Hacks to Make Your Employees Happier and Improve Employee Retention Rate

Sometimes employees don’t feel engaged at work, leading to a less-than-positive work ethic and environment. That doesn’t mean employers should stream cat videos on a loop to keep workers alert, but engaged employees mean engaged customers.

According to a 2015 Gallup Poll, 32 percent of American employees feel engaged at work, while 50.8 percent of …