Wednesday, October 19, 2022 3:48 pm
“Content is King but engagement is Queen, and the lady rules the house!” MARI SMITH The majority of SEO pros understand how important user engagement is to their success. Without searchers coming to our sites and taking action in some way, chances are...
Monday, March 21, 2022 2:18 pm
Sometimes the grass IS greener on the other side. Employees in every community are jumping to new opportunities, leaving employers scrambling to fill vacant positions. Catapulted by the pandemic and fueled by the demand for work/life happiness, leaders find themselves...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021 10:28 am
Good web design is one of the most effective growth tools for businesses of all kinds. Every aspect must be designed to maximize the user experience. Otherwise, it can negatively impact results, sales and web encounters with the business. Here are a few things you can...
Monday, July 5, 2021 8:00 am
Studies have shown employees spend more than three hours a day on mundane computer tasks. * You and your client encounter mundane tasks each day. This may include pulling data for a report or updating information on previously curated documents. The list goes on. As...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021 10:29 am
Bill Gates once said that a company’s most unhappy customers are its greatest sources of learning. The obvious goal is to avoid unhappy customers in the first place, but odds are you’ll encounter a few – and maybe more than a few – no matter what industry you’re in....
Thursday, February 18, 2021 8:13 am
As Zig Ziglar once said: You’re out of business if you don’t have a prospect. It’s one of the most important factors in your business’s growth, and one of the most challenging: Nearly 70% of businesses report struggling with lead generation. A key reason for that...
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 4:14 pm
Having the right management in place matters – otherwise there wouldn’t be so many darn inspirational quotes about great leadership. There also wouldn’t be so many alarming statistics about bad leadership, like: More than a third of Americans report that poor...
Thursday, November 12, 2020 4:14 pm
In today’s job market, it’s not uncommon for employers to find themselves caught in the perfect storm of recruitment challenges: Record-low unemployment rates mean the pool of qualified, unemployed applicants has dried up Rising salary and benefits costs make...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 2:25 pm
“If we send out a press release about employees’ professional accomplishments, the competition will try to steal them from us.” “If we recognize one employee, it just causes disgruntlement among all the others.” “We don’t do employee of the month anymore. The same...
Thursday, November 5, 2020 11:06 am
No matter your size or industry, chances are you’ve struggled with retaining or hiring employees at some point in the recent past. Last year, about one in four employees left their job, costing employers some $600 billion in turnover-related costs. By 2020, that...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020 2:24 pm
How many of these fit your business? Culture has become a popular industry buzzword over the last few years, a way to define what may be missing when businesses face deeper challenges with everything from recruitment/retention to communication to sales/revenue growth...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020 2:24 pm
If you’re a business decision-maker, there’s a better-than-average chance you’ve encountered your share of hiring woes in recent years. Recruiting the right talent for your workforce – and then keeping them – has become a challenge across almost all industries in...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 2:24 pm
Unless you’re a small business with one employee (yourself) or your business just opened yesterday, you’ve probably experienced employee turnover. And the larger your organization, the more frequently that turnover is likely to occur. It’s costly in more ways than one...