Articles tagged "Small business"

How to Choose the Best Social Media Platform for Your Business

When you want to start promoting your business, products, or content on social media, it's important to carefully consider which social media platforms to use.

Contract Work Is Hard. These 6 Rules Make It Easier.

Switching from one job to the next is the nature of the beast for freelancers and contractors. And that means a unique set of challenges, like making quick assessments and moving projects forward on schedule despite juggling multiple clients.

Hire a Virtual Assistant and Start Delegating

There comes a time in every small business owner's life when they look at their to-do list and realize they simply can't get it all done.

The 7 Key Ingredients in Successful Side Projects

For businesses, giving resources and time to side projects has proven over and over to be worth it. Slack, everyone’s favorite communication hub, started life as a simple tool for a group of game developers.

8 Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns and the Apps Behind Them

The crowdfunding landscape looks much different now than it did a decade ago, before Kickstarter opened the floodgates in 2009.

Selling the Invisible: How to Sell Your Services

If you're shopping for a new vacuum, it's easy to compare features to find one that meets your dust-busting needs.

How to Make Difficult Decisions

Your decisions make you. Whether you’re selling them as an entrepreneur, marketer, writer, or any other kind of knowledge worker, or facing a serious crossroads in your personal life, the choices you make today define your future.

7 Tips to Cut Costs for Your eCommerce Store

For consumers and retailers alike, eCommerce used to be the more affordable option compared to brick-and-mortar stores.

How to Use Zapier to Automate Everything

You found workflow automation tool Zapier, which puts you ahead of the pack. Now you can start building workflows and connecting all your apps.

How Automation Helps Olark Give Sales a Human Touch

In the age of automation and efficiency, some tasks are better suited for a robot, or more realistically, a computer. If it's repetitive, there's a good chance a tool exists to handle it for you. But some tasks and jobs require a human touch and approach.