Creating a fun, motivating, and intellectually nurturing work environment is pivotal to having productive and engaged employees. When people no longer feel satisfied in their professional setting, productivity and overall morale drops. For managers and other higher ups, employee engagement usually boils down to how efficiently employees are meeting quotas and employee retention. However, to get to the heart of the matter, it is best to..
Every year baseball fans get to enjoy watching the best of the best come together, regardless of their home-team affiliation in theAll-Star Game. This year’s game takes place today, July 14th, and..
Today there are a few buzzwords that get tossed around a lot in the business sphere. Chief among them is “big data.” In fact, big data can be read about in almost any sphere. Big data, as defined by ..
If you're an entrepreneur with an idea that you’re passionate about, you will go to great lengths to make it a reality. Typically, this means finding investors who share a similar passion for making..
When you're trying to run a profitable business and are reliant upon product sales to do so, what would you want your salespeople to spend most of their time doing? If you answered selling then..
People have become accustomed to having everything they need immediately at their fingertips. This may seem unreasonable, but today if you cannot give your clients instant gratification it reflects..
When you walk into the grocery store, typically you know what you are looking for. You may have a list typed out on the notepad of your smartphone, go for the old school paper list, or you just..
When you are looking for a new product or service, where do you go for suggestions? The Internet? Friends? Customer reviews? Some people may go to all three, but many rely on just one. If you are..
What are your five favorite smartphone apps (set aside the ones that ship with the phone like text, email, camera…)? Flipping through my home pages the ones I use the most are
1. Uber
2. Waze
3. Wigo
We all know that today, as consumers, we encounter advertising everywhere we go. At some point, we start tuning it out. It is no longer enough for an ad to simply say “this is my product, this is..
Before you can set up a display, run a promotion, or vie for the best shelf space, you have to show up to the retailer meeting. When busy, it is something so secondary that it can easily be..
