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Music in the Workplace: Can it Help Productivity, or Is it Treble?

Do your employees like listening to music while they work? For many, music helps increase engagement, morale, and overall productivity. But, is music in the workplace actually beneficial to your business’s growth?

8 Small Business Tools You Need to Streamline Operations

Small businesses are the lifeblood of any economy. Over 90% of the business population represents the small to medium enterprise (SME) population. Yet while SMEs make up a large portion of business owner shares, GDP, and economic activity, most of them struggle.

Workplace Trends: Modernize Your Business for Success

All in all, 2020 was a doozy of a year. The new decade brought with it a number of new workplace trends for many employers, including new sanitary needs, social distancing, and even a transition to work-from-home options. Here’s how you can use workplace trends to remain competitive.

Texting in Business: Reply “Yes” to Confirm

You’re always on the hunt for new and improved ways to streamline business processes, like marketing and customer service. The next big thing? Texting in business.

Running Out of Steam? Here are 6 Tips for Keeping the Momentum in Your Business

When you think about the word “momentum,” you may have flashbacks about your days in science or physics class. Momentum is often defined as mass in motion. But, momentum doesn’t just belong in science. It also has a place in business.

9 Entrepreneur Habits Holding You Back from Business Success

New Year’s resolutions are all about cutting out bad habits. Making yourself healthier. Pushing yourself. Bettering yourself. Making yourself happier. But why reserve these types of resolutions for January 1? Why not identify bad habits and cut them out whenever you can?

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Measuring Employee Engagement: Strategies Worth Giving a Shot

“Wah wah” (think Charlie Brown’s teacher) is something you don’t want going on in your employees’ heads when they’re working. But as time goes by, your employees might start losing interest in their work. If you want to figure out where your employees are at, try measuring employee engagement.

Top Techniques and Tools to Maximize Your Marketing Team Productivity

Does it feel like you have to walk up a mountain, carrying a 100-pound weight, with your shoes tied together to get your marketing campaign right? Well, it shouldn’t be that hard. Sometimes, all it takes is having the right tools to boost productivity.

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6 Tips to Boost Your Website’s Knowledge Base

The traditional customer support approach is dying a slow death, with more and more companies switching to advanced techniques of providing excellent support. When it comes to small business, the self-help strategy is the perfect way to help clients.

What Is an Employee Performance Improvement Plan?

Is one of your workers going down the rabbit hole of idleness? If so, you may consider putting them on an employee performance improvement plan (PIP).