Following Kickstarter’s 10-year anniversary, we take a look at four successful – and not so successful – ideas to gain investment from the general public. In the wake of the Great Recession at the end of the noughties, people who wanted to start their own small company or create a new product needed a way […]

If you run a small business, one of your top priorities should be protecting your business and your customers. Failure to identify and secure vulnerabilities in your business will only lead to problems in future. In this article, we take a look at five smart ways you can protect your business so that you don’t […]

Whether you feel that you’re a natural leader or not, the reality with entrepreneurship is that you must try to sell to prospective new clients and come across as authoritative. When you have a new team to manage, leadership is where the rubber meets the road. Without someone to look up to, staff will feel […]

Building brand awareness doesn’t happen overnight. People didn’t automatically start asking for Band-Aids or Kleenexes or Q-Tips or Jell-O or Vaseline when they wanted bandages, tissues, cotton swabs, gelatin or petroleum jelly. But with careful planning and some creativity, these brands managed to establish themselves so firmly in the minds of consumers that their brand […]

Inefficient business practices can be expensive, stressful and waste a lot of your time and effort, especially when you are a manager or director. Despite this, they can easily be remedied. Often, business leaders are quite hesitant to invest in systems or tools which are designed to eliminate these inefficiencies, but to get the most […]

When you are starting a business, one of the first things you need to do is get a Federal tax id number. This allows you to file the applicable taxes that keep you in compliance with the federal government. There are some people, however, who have never started a business but are now thrown into […]

 Do you have this great business idea and want to get your name out there?    First things first, you need to get noticed. But how?   You need to keep up with the times and that means your brand does too. Digital transformation has reshaped the way your brand connects with its customers and […]

For the first time in recent history, government is saying it cannot, alone, provide the social services our people need. Business is saying it cannot deliver the services government is relinquishing, and the nonprofit/social sector is telling us it cannot single-handedly meet the societal needs being ceded to it by government and business. The meaning […]