Heard of Snapchat? If not, it’s only a matter of time before you’ll be using it to share pictures with friends. After all, it bills itself as “the fastest way to share a moment on iPhone and Android - up to 10x faster than MMS”.
In today’s competitive environment, every dollar counts and organizations cannot afford to remain ignorant about true project costs. Fortunately, there are a few formulas that help you track and analyze project cost and to estimate projects with increasing accuracy in the future.
Small businesses owners are often barraged by automation software systems that promise to streamline an important business process.
But we live in an unreasonable world where every advantage should be realized. Because the truth is, while you may not be able to answer these questions easily, a large majority of your competitors can.
Hear Barbara discussing small business concerns with sales expert & author, Ron Volper, and CEO of Journyx, Curt Finch
It’s that time of year again, with Christmas songs on the radio, corporate holiday parties planned, and twinkling lights decorating every nook and cranny of the office. It’s also the time of year when employees are most likely to use up those saved vacation days, often taking off several days to spend time with friends and family during the holiday season.
Regardless of the industry you’re in, it is critical to know which of your customers are profitable and which ones strain your resources. If the most extreme cases, it could even make sense to fire particularly troublesome customers.
The ways in which many companies deal with their employees is, to put it bluntly, quite static. Employees are hired, given a task and expected to complete that task with little consideration given to potential skills outside of the role for which the employee was hired.
Staffing is the most critical part of creating a winning technical support team. If you make mistakes with the steps discussed in my first article but excel at hiring and managing your people, you will succeed in the end.
The modern technology landscape looks significantly different than it did five years ago. Tablets and smartphones are the norm, as more people embrace a highly mobile lifestyle. Still, recent innovations to these fields are relatively stagnant, particularly in the tablet field. Apple remains the major player despite numerous attempts to unseat the iPad from its throne. Regardless, competitors continue to search for the new killer feature or app that will reconfigure the marketplace.
