How to Have Wisdom in Business

Wisdom is the ability to discern what is right from what is wrong to produce optimum judgments that can lead to effective and efficient actions.



Wisdom is vital if you want to reach your business goals and achieve its optimal success. As business owners, entrepreneurs, marketers and managers need to face day-to-day decision making responsibilities, it’s important that they attain the right

One in Eight Office Workers Checked Their Corporate Portal on Christmas Eve

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Twelve percent of Bitrix24 users accessed their corporate networks on Christmas Eve and seventeen percent did on Christmas Day, according to internal statistics.

 "With 35,000 small businesses signing up with Bitrix24 in the last six months, we have a real good feel of how new social enterprise tools are changing work patterns. Even a few years ago, it would have been hard to imagine that so many office workers would feel the urge to do some work on Christmas," said Bitrix24 CEO Dmitry Valyanov.

According to Bitrix, Inc. internal statistics, 12% of Bitrix24 users accessed their corporate networks on Christmas Eve and 17% percent did on Christmas Day.

Instant messaging (47%) was by far the most popular activity type, followed by document sharing (11%) and task tracking (9%). The owners of mobile devices were even more active – 17% of iPhone and iPad users were active on Christmas Eve and 19% on Christmas Day, while the number for active Android users were 15% and 21% respectively.

"The line between work and home is getting more and more blurry, especially as mobile devices become so ubiquitous. I use my iPhone as much for my work as I do for talking with my wife and daughters," added Mr. Valyanov.

Not all countries felt the same urge to work on the holidays. Twenty two percent of Bitrix24 users residing in US were active on Christmas Day or Christmas Eve, followed by Canada (20%) and United Kingdom (17%). Germany, Poland, Brazil and Italy were among the more ‘laid back’ nations, with 11%, 11%, 9% and 6% of Bitrix24 users checking in.

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Making it to Harvard or other prestigious universities is not a privilege granted to just about anyone. Academic success is one prerequisite for acceptance. Aaron Harris, a Harvard alum who also happens to be the CEO and co-founder of Tutorspree, thinks that in making it to a high-caliber scholastic institution, high-quality tutoring plays an integral role.

Easier said than done, you might say, as finding capable tutors isn’t a walk in the park, which is why Harris and his buddies, Ryan Bednar and Josh Abrams, recognizing the need to solve substantial inefficiencies in the tutoring sector, started Tutorspree.

Tutorspree is a tutoring marketplace that aims to bridge the gap between students and parents who are unsatisfied with the methods by which they connect and work with tutors and tutors who are not happy with the manner they find new students. With Tutorspree, locating reliable and qualified tutors in the student’s locale is made easier.

The website allows a user to search through its database of carefully selected tutors by supplying location information. They are then able to view tutor profiles that list their achievements, educational background and work history. Once a tutor is selected, Tutorspree provides secure payment processing options, as well as feedback tools. Aside from location, a user can also search for a tutor by subject and hourly rate.

Tutorspree tutors are professional teachers, writers, grad students, test prep gurus, language instructors and educators with extensive tutoring experience. To be qualified, aside from the necessary credentials, each prospective tutor undergoes a background check and an internal screening process. Harris estimates that 40% to 50% of applicants are turned away.

Signing up as a tutor with Tutorspree is free, but a commission will be charged on all payments received for services via the company - 50% for the first lesson and a flat rate of approximately $5 for each follow-up lesson.

With Tutorspree, parents and students no longer need to flock to Craigslist or community message boards (both actual and virtual) to find tutors whose qualifications they won’t be able to gauge until it’s too late. On the other end of the spectrum, tutors no longer need to go through the rigors of self-promotion but are instead entered into a trustworthy database.

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How to Build Your Wealth ?

Who don’t want to be wealthy? Who don’t want abundance in valuable resources, such as financial possession, real estate, talents, skills and knowledge resources? We’ve all dreamed of wealth. We don’t want to be poor and suffer from the culprit of excessive debts. We want to buy the things we want, we want to have the ability to help other people, and we want to share as many things as we can to

Awesome Startups - PickyDomains.com

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So you came up with an idea for an online business and started thinking of a great domain name for it, only to realize that all the good domain names are already taken. Then you tried automatic domain name generation tools, but most of the name they generated didn’t make any sense. What to do now? Well, just crowdsource your domain name idea generation to PickyDomains.

PickyDomains is a cool service that offers 100% risk free domain name and business slogan or tag line generation service. It has a proven track record of generating great domain names, and business slogans such as SEOBook for Aaron Wall, eMomsAtHome Wendy Piersall, and SurefireMarketing for Yanik Silver.

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Facebook Nearby : Facebook Location Based Business Recommendations

Facebook recently launched a revamped Nearby section of its mobile apps, which includes a guide to restaurants and other local businesses that are ranked based on Likes from friends, check-ins, and similar social data.


The updates to the new iOS and Android apps include the ability to browse and search for local businesses, as well as share those businesses with Facebook friends.


When opening

Looking for And Choosing Small Business Partnerships

What is a partnership? Partners are joint owners of a business. They have the same goals and are equally responsible for the decisions made on behalf of the business.



Are all partners equal?
Not necessarily. For instance, in many law firms there are senior and junior partners. However, the partners remain equal from a legal point of view.

If there is no written agreement, all partners:

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4 Green Business Trends for 2013

It used to be enough to adopt a highway, recycle in the break room and install a few energy-efficient light bulbs. But businesses now must take ambitious steps if they want to be seen as sustainability leaders and join the big leagues. Consider that about two-thirds of all Fortune 500 companies now publish corporate sustainability reports.

The past year has been a tough one for green businesses,

How do I make customer amazed and satisfied

Your customers are the life of your business. If you get the trust and loyalty of many of them, you are assured of having your enterprise successful. On the contrary, if they dislike your business, it would only give you headaches and bankruptcy in the long run. Meaning, without customers, you have to find another source of income.



Your customers are the reason why you give much effort to come

10 Things that Make You a Real Entrepreneur

What makes someone a real entrepreneur? Is it the ability to start an enterprise and make a profit or is it the ability to create innovative products that can touch the lives of many people? We know that entrepreneurship helps people’s lives to be better – it even aids a nation in achieving its economic growth.



However, being a true entrepreneur isn’t an easy thing to do. We cannot just quit

How To Write a Business Plan

I’ve been doing a tonne of research on how to write a
business plan and I feel like everyone has different thoughts on what to
include and how to write something that actually makes an impact.
 I’m
sure you’ve seen thousands of business plans in your career – what
catches your eye?

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Alegion.com review

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From the words “crowd” plus “outsourcing,” crowdsourcing is not new news (see PickyDomains or DoNanza). It has been around for a while, and given the many advantages (productivity, cost-effectiveness, timely results, etc.) it can bring, especially in this highly competitive technology-driven world, is here to stay.

Launched on November 20, 2012 at the Amazon AWS re:Invent conference, Alegion aims to provide large enterprises the ability to incorporate crowdsourced work into their complex business processes via its ground-breaking self-service crowdsourcing platform. According to Nathaniel Gates, Alegion’s co-founder and CEO, crowdsourcing hasn’t really taken off, no thanks to the fact that users stay away from crowdsourcing because of the perception that results are generally inaccurate and that there’s no surefire way to ensure the accuracy of such results.

Gates recognizes that the problem with crowdsourcing has nothing to do with the platform or the workers, but with the process. He also insists that when users – businesses or individuals – fail to generate the desired results from their crowdsourcing endeavors, it is because they are not asking the right questions or following proven best practices to guarantee accuracy.

Another reason enterprises aren’t taking advantage of the full gamut of benefits they can gain from crowdsourcing is the complicated nature of setting up a crowdsourcing infrastructure in-house, which normally takes up a lot of resources. With Alegion, continuous development and expensive business consultants are no longer needed as everything will now be made available. With Alegion, companies design their workflow processes to ensure work accuracy, including a scoring system that will allow them to build a workforce fit for certain tasks. Companies will also be able to see job-related data so they can perform their own analyses and find out what went well and what didn’t, and everything else they want to track.

What’s more remarkable about Alegion is job creators’ ability to interact with their workers, answer questions, provide rewards and bonuses, even categorize their workers into groups, like those who constantly provide outstanding work and those who might need some help.

Gates points out that if users treat crowdsourcing as a system – data in, data out – they are unlikely to find satisfaction with the results.

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The Trends of Financial Management And Tactics

Is it really time to turn the corner on a new year again? Things move so quickly these days, it’s easy to get overwhelmed, even if you’re sitting still.

But we know that small business owners like you don’t sit still – can’t sit still – or your business will die. The good news is there are plenty of companies, from spirited startups to established old school brands, who want to help you

'Black Friday' deals are back for last-minute shoppers

Sometimes, it pays to procrastinate. Millions of us still need to buy
holiday gifts, and retailers want that business. So they’ve lowered
prices to attract last-minute shoppers.
“We’re seeing incredible deals right now on laptops and some good pricing on tablets and TVs,” said Mike Fridgen, CEO of Decide.com, a site that tracks millions of prices.
They predict that 70 percent of the most

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Nowadays, if you run a lodging business, even an independent bread-and-breakfast, and your business can't be found online, expect to be left behind and trampled by the rest of the pack. The Internet has interconnected the world in so many ways. Travelers now book accommodations online. If your online presence is relatively nil, you're practically throwing away a big piece of the pie that is your target population.

That said, however, small lodgings and independent hotels may still experience some setbacks while managing bookings via Expedia and Booking.com. Keeping up-to-date inventories in these sites entails constantly logging to each one, updating calendars, the number of rooms you have available and such, which can be time-consuming, to say the least.

Dashbell, a startup with headquarters based in Boston, is developing a product called OpenTable for independent hotels which will allow small lodgings to synchronize their online listings with their own systems. Meaning, the moment they update their systems, their online listings are automatically updated as well.

According to Paige Brown, Dashbell's co-founder and CEO, the company plans to beta launch in January, with initial focus on Brazil. Brazil is a country with a $12 billion hotel bookings market, 75% of which are independent. Of the 75%, only 4% are currently listed online. Dashbell intends to assist as many hotels as possible make the shift to online bookings before the 2016 Rio Olympics.

In the United States, there are far fewer independent hotels. Still, Dashbell isn't closing its doors to independent hotels in the country. Brown believes that a considerable number of small bread-and-breakfasts might benefit from using Dashbell in the future. By the end of the year, Dashbell expects to secure funding in the amount of $400,000 to $500,000 from angel investors.

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You Must Ask These Questions Before Buying a Business

A Story: Andrew Cagnetta bought his first business -- a pasta shop in Wethersfield, Conn. -- at age 25 and quickly realized he hadn't done his homework thoroughly enough. Although he stuck to the shop's original recipes and products, customers began complaining that the recipes had changed. Sales declined, and in less than two years, Cagnetta and his cousin, the co-owner, ended up selling the

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Marketing Strategy for 2013

Small business owners, answer these questions as honestly as you can:


Did your company jump on the content marketing bandwagon in 2012?
Did you create and curate informative and practical content for your target audiences?
Did you find a way to disseminate your content, getting it in front of potential clients or customers?

If you answered “yes” to all of these, then it is likely to be a

11 Inspired Business-Card Designs

They may seem like relics or leftovers from past generations that didn't give two figs about the environment or modern business practices. But business cards are not only still used, they're also useful.

They can serve as a new contact or client's first look at your company, as well as a reminder that stays with them long after you’ve left the building. Yet amid the rush to brand a business in

16 Gifts for Entrepreneurs

Our drool-worthy gifts for the entrepreneurs in your life promise to make them feel appreciated and stylish--and make their hard-earned success a bit more satisfying. Whether or not you've reached the same heights, you just may want some of these cool items for yourself.

AOC 16-inch Portable USB Monitor




This sleek 1.4-inch-thick monitor ($139) connects directly to a laptop via USB cable for

Top 10 Tech Accessories of 2012

1. The Equiso is a dongle that turns your TV into an Android device




The Equiso is an Android-powered dongle that plugs into your TV's HDMI port and lets you run apps on the big screen.
It's primarily designed as a streaming device, so you can run Android versions of HBO GO, Netflix, Hulu, Pandora, etc. and stream content to your TV.
Price: $79


2. Logitech's Ultrathin iPad keyboard turns

Top small businesses Googled this year

Google success was likely due to their increased presence on social media throughout the year, plus continued growth in the business itself.

The linen business had begun to place more emphasis on Facebook, as well as encouraging its 1400 consultants to start their own Facebook pages publicising the brand, Ellett said.



"My role with that (main Facebook) page is really not getting the likes but

Is Your Side Business Legal?

From blogging to handling a one-off PR project for a former client, today’s digital economy offers new opportunities for bringing in a little extra income. But when does a casual project turn into a business, and how do you keep that business legal?

According to the IRS, an activity is considered a “business” if it has made a profit in three of the past five years. Since you’re supposed to

How to Make Money Online Using Google Adsense

Whether possible to get money just by online ? Yes, you can do it using google adsense. How to make money online with Google Adsense? Adsense program is an
ad serving application run by Google Inc. Website owners and bloggers, which are
called publishers, can enroll in this program to enable text, image, and video
advertisement on their web pages. Publishers earned revenue on either a

How to Raise Entrepreneurial Kids

As a parent, you inspire entrepreneurship by fostering the emotional
skills your child will need, such as comfort with risk, effective
problem solving, and a positive attitude toward failure.



"It’s all about shaping the child’s behavior," says Dr.
Andrea Vazzana, clinical assistant professor of child psychiatry at New
York University Langone’s Child Study Center. "Social emotional skills

Five Mistakes to Avoid With Free Shipping

More online retailers are offering free shipping as customers come to expect it. Last year, more than half of all online transactions during the holidays included shipping at no charge, a 10 percent jump from 2010, according to a survey of online shoppers by comScore.

While you may need to offer free shipping -- at least as a promotional feature during the holidays -- to retain and attract

Tips to Increase Your Business Profit

Without so much introduction, we all know that business has to make profits. Hence, if you’re a business owner, entrepreneur or a manager in charge to boost the profitability of your company or organization, the following 10 tips will guide you on how to increase your business profit.


1. Increase owner’s capital or investment.
More investments mean more ROI (Return on Investment). Don’t play

Tips to Have Perfect Timing

Timing is a very important factor in achieving success.
Without timing, any effort, talent, and anything you do might not be
enough to reach your goals. Just like dancing, you need to have timing
to be graceful. Just like singing, you need to have perfect timing to
avoid being out of tune.


In our business actions, we need timing to maximize sales and profit. And in almost anything we do in

Online Tools to Answering Questions Your Small Business

Running a
small business is filled with unknowns and crash course lessons. You’re
always going to have questions about hiring, acquiring customers,
raising money, and building viable products. When I started my first
business, it was crucial that I learn about accounting and income
statements. As the nature of building startups goes, teaching myself the
basics lead to more and more

How to Stretch Your Marketing Budget ?

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count.
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strategies to help you maximize your campaigns and save money.



use your ads for more than just space advertising.Ads
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Essential Tips, How to Building Your Small Biz Team

In a startup, it’s all about the team. Even if you have a
ground-breaking idea, it’s useless without the right team to develop and
execute the vision. If you’ve been in business or entrepreneurship,
these revelations shouldn’t surprise you.
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Smartphones are on the rise, and the upward movement is yet to see a decline, which, as industry experts believe, is not going to happen anytime soon. Smartphones today had gotten smarter, are cross-generational, and voice calling is just one of their many features. If you take time to observe people at coffee shops, airports, even in planes, not a lot of them use the smartphone for voice calls. Most of them actually read, swipe and tap. With a smartphone, Internet access is right at the user's fingertips. Music, high quality cameras, downloadable entertainment apps, what else is there?

On the business side of the equation, with these mobile devices, businesses can now engage with customers, advertise their services, pay bills, accept payments, etc.

Speaking of paying bills and accepting payments, there is this new smartphone app and point-of-sale device called PayLab that allows vending machine operators to effortlessly receive payments from over 100 million North American clients. PayLab enables customers carrying smartphones to easily pay for their purchases while eliminating exuberant fees slapped by cashless systems.

According to Mike Gron, PayLab's founder, the accelerating credit card fees borne by both consumers and merchants has opened up windows of opportunities for various types of payment solutions, and he saw vending as a perfect avenue to explore what can be done with a little ingenuity and market know-how. Mike Gron adds that the hardware engineering and testing had been both challenging and interesting.

One big contributor to Mike Gron's success was his willingness to get to know his audience. He spent a great deal of time in warehouses and trucks trying to understand the ins and outs of the industry. When asked which was more difficult, raising capital or finding the right talent, he explained that getting one without the other is going to be a challenge. Staying affiliated with the local tech community and keeping people informed of developments (or the lack thereof) is important.

Just recently, PayLab was presented at the Plug and Play Launch and Startup Showdown, an event with investors from Silicon Valley and Calgary, as well as at the Start Up Calgary Launch Party that took place on November 14. Currently, PayLab is trying to raise an initial round of financing for production ramp-up.

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How to Getting Started Business Marketing in Social Media

Now, There are many social media on Internet, When it comes
to using social media marketing to build your business, the worst action
is no action, and your biggest problem is being invisible, not being
talked about negatively. As long as you're part of the conversation on
the social Web, you can hear what's being said about you and massage
negative perceptions about your business.

But if

Trend Report - Businesses Starting to Switch to Internal Crowdsourcing

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 Six years ago, Jeff Howe coined term crowdsourcing to describe the process of outsourcing tasks to a distributed group of people. However, more and more companies are now turning to internal crowdsourcing, according to Bitrix24 CEO Dmitry Valyanov.

"We are seeing a significant shift now. Whereas a few years ago companies would simply outsource their work through eLance.com or other crowdsourcing sites [see DoNanza story], now they are using more and more 'internal crowdsourcing', that relying on collaboration among their own employees to produce results. Having seen the potential of crowdsourcing through external experience, they are trying to replicate this effective method inside the company when possible."

Social enterprise networks, also known as social intranets, are the driver behind this change. With major software companies from Microsoft to SalesForce investing hundreds of millions of dollars, it's clear that this trend will continue to develop intensely.

"Virtually every major client we have uses an extranet to bring freelancers and contractors into the fold. They are now using crowdsourcing sites only to locate suitable candidates, while actual collaboration is happening on their own platform. This makes sense, because a social intranet typically has the necessary collaboration tools, while crowdsourcing sites usually solve other problems – like payments, for example, or providing feedback about freelancers or clients."

Bitrix24 has experienced rapid growth since its launch in April 2012 and was recently praised by Forbes.com,  thanks in part to its decision to target small businesses, rather than the large business segment targeted by other social intranet providers. Over 15000 companies have signed up for the service so far.

"We've made Bitrix24 absolutely free to any company with 12 employees or fewer. We really do believe that the future of social intranet is in small to midsize companies. Once the advantages and the ease of adoption are demonstrated, it's really an easy sell from that point."

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If you’re an entrepreneur, when launching a startup, one of the early challenges involved are getting the word out about your product or service, letting your target consumer know of the benefits that come with it and getting people to try it out – all in the name of converting them into lifetime customers.

On the other hand, if you’re somebody thinking of sending a gift to someone special, one hurdle you need to clear is figuring out what this trendy friend of yours would be thrilled to receive. And this means ensuring the gift isn’t something he/she already received from someone else, which, needless to say, can sometimes be a tough one to pull off.

JustBecause, a newly launched iPhone app, bridges the gap between the two. With JustBecause, users can now offer their friends gifts from startups worth $10 to $100 for just $1. Yes, you read right – for just $1!

Why? Well, startups are more than glad to dole out freebies here and there (in the hopes of turning a first-time user into a permanent consumer, what else?), and simply charge the expense against their customer acquisition funds. And because the gifts are from startups, as a consumer, you can rest assured that these products or services are stuff most people haven’t tried yet.

According to Matt Hartman, co-founder of JustBecause, the app was spun from his first startup, ReferBoost, an apartment referral social lead generator. To encourage apartment residents to write reviews and post about the buildings they lived on, they gave out gift cards, usually from Starbucks.

Meanwhile, Uber, one of the startups currently in JustBecause’s lineup, was trying to acquire customers in Chicago. This, then, prompted Hartman to talk to Uber. Uber thought the idea was interesting and provided him with some cards. The limiting factor though was the number of buildings Hartman had on his system. This, in turn, led to the idea that is now JustBecause.

JustBecause requires a Facebook login. Gift codes provided only work for first-time users, and for the gifts to be shared, the sender posts to a friend’s wall. SMS sharing is something that might come into play in the future.

Based in Chicago, JustBecause is, at the moment, working hard to expand its current startup roster. To download the app, visit their website at www.justbecauseapp.com.

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How to Spy Your Competitors (Legally)

Ever wonder what your competitors are up to? You should. They might
be creating new products, planning to enter new markets -- or maybe
they're floundering. If you knew, it could give you an edge.
Uncovering



competitive information doesn't require donning a trench coat or hiring
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Brand Strategy & Equity
Your
brand strategy is how, what, where, when and to whom you plan on
communicating and delivering on your brand messages. Where you advertise
is part of your brand strategy. Your distribution channels are also
part of your brand strategy. And what you communicate visually and
verbally are part of your brand strategy, too.
Consistent,
strategic branding leads to