Social media gives small businesses a platform to amplify their voice and visibility among prospective customers. For many small businesses, this is a rich opportunity, as you can see in the following infographic . . .
Ten Million-Dollar Start-Up Mistakes
It’s a well-accepted axiom in the investor community that entrepreneurs learnmore from their failures than their successes.Thus a well-explained startup failure often can actually improve your odds of funding in the next go-round.
Yet, there is no doubt that the best strategy is to learn from someone else’s mistakes, so you can enjoy the millions that someone else lost in learning.
13 Ways of Knowing If You’re a Bad Manager
Here are 13 ways of knowing whether you’re a poor manager:
- People are afraid of you. In some workplaces, managers are feared even by employees who don’t know them — because their reputations precede them. If this is you, there’s a high probability that you aren't good: no ifs, ands, or buts about it. . . .
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14 Surprising Ways Employees Cost Their Companies Billions in the Workplace
There are some inevitable costs of running a business. Every workplace is going to have factors driving down productivity. Employees aren't going to be glued to their work for every minute of their shift, and inefficiencies are bound to occur when people take days off.
But just how much do sick days and medical leaves cost U.S. businesses? And what about the lesser known office issues that drive up the cost of running a business, such as workplace bullying litigation and injuries from domestic abuse?
What Consumer Culture Will Look Like in 2020 (and How Brands Can Adapt)
The brands that succeed will be the ones that are the most adaptable to whatever nature throws our way. The Consumer Futures 2020 report, developed by the U.K.'s Forum For The Future, takes a stab at imagining what consumer culture will look like nearly a decade down the line. There are four potential paths we might take: . . .
The Mega-Trends That Are Changing Retail Forever
Retailers all over are scrambling to adapt and survive. We've seen the decline of big box and the meteoric rise of e-commerce shake the industry to its core.
"But that's not all that has altered the retail landscape."
The 50 Coolest New Businesses in America
Year after year, cities across America continue to surprise us with new, innovative, and downright awesome businesses.
This year we've already brought you the coolest new businesses in Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco, and now we've gone nationwide, finding the hottest restaurants, boutiques, startups, and everything in between across the U.S.
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Best Buy Says It Has Killed “Showrooming” for Good
“There is no doubt that this new policy ends showrooming for Best Buy customers. . ."
The 10 Most Innovative Companies in the World
Booz & Co. just came out with its annual ranking of the world's 1000 biggest R&D spenders, which includes a survey of more than 700 senior R&D executives asking them what companies are the most innovative in the world.
Only two of those voted most innovative were among the top ten spenders on research last year.
Meet the 25 Most Creative People in Advertising
Recently, Business Insider asked the major ad agencies—and the more significant boutiques—to name the execs they felt were the most creative in the business.To prevent the nominations from being self-serving, we asked each agency to also nominate two executives from competing agencies—the people they'd hire, given a free hand.