Category Archives: Resources
How to Remember Names During Networking Events
The most important step in professional or social networking is to remember the names of the people you meet. That can be difficult to do, especially if you meeting numerous people at the same time. The following steps will help you improve your memory and provide memorization techniques to help you remember people’s names. By doing so, you will make a connection with them, and they will remember you!
Managing Your Career as a Business By JAMES FLANIGAN
EMPLOYMENT experts have some advice for the many Americans either looking for work or fearing they soon will be: Consider yourself an entrepreneur — of your own working life.
The term entrepreneur is usually applied to people seeking to start their own small businesses. But those in the recruitment and employment industry say the uncertainty in the current economy means that workers need to think of their careers as their own small businesses.
Three Best Ways to Improve Your Online Reputation by Raymund Flandez
These days, a great danger lurks just a few clicks away: the online review. By Googling your company’s name, anyone can read and track your business’s performance – including missteps, poor service or less-than-stellar products.
Protecting your company’s reputation is now a 24-hour vigil. Negative reviews – whether they’re merited or not – can turn away potential customers and vendors, and reflect badly on your company’s brand.
Ready to Leave your Job Behind and Become your Own Boss? How to Get on the Road to Success
While Visiting the We Walk the Road to Success Page on Facebook I came across some great tips on what to do if you ever decide to leave your job to start your own business. It takes a certain kind of person to make it through the first few years and to help you along [...]
Course 2: Reinventing Your Business in Turbulent Times
Small Business University Instructor and President of Velvet Suite Marketing Group Melissa Dawn Johnson guides you on how to define the steps needed to decide what’s next for your business and ultimately succeeding during these troubling times.
5 Keys to Grow Your Business in 90 Days
I recently joined Black Enterprises Lincoln Small Business University which is an online course through Black Enterprise and Lincoln Motors that provides free business courses for aspiring business owners looking to jump start their venture, or an established entrepreneur looking to energize their brand.
Andrew Morrison Small Business University expert and founder of the Small Business Camp, discusses [...]
7 Tips for Business Start-Ups
Below are some great tips on how to start your first business and it looks as if I am on the right track and I hope that you are too.
1.Use the Internet
As part of doing your homework, don’t be afraid to use the Internet; particularly Google. Do a search on start-up businesses, home-based businesses and [...]
Why You Need to be on LinkedIn…NOW! by Neal Schaffer
Please excuse the aggressive title, but if you are a professional there are many reasons why you at least need to have a presence on LinkedIn and should utilize the platform as your primary social networking tool.
First some background on myself. Like most of you, I received an invite from someone that I don’t even [...]
