When it comes to managing a business, most entrepreneurs only consider commonplace threats like running out of operating capital or failing to attract target consumers hence ending up with a backlog of products in inventory. While these threats do merit preparations, a business can also face the threat of being sued, whether it's by their customers, business partners, or employees. Here's what to do when under commercial litigation.

In the world of B2B email marketing, the best strategy is having one in the first place.

Whether you have been in business for years or are just getting your feet wet in the business world, it is critical that you start things off on the right foot.

With that being the case, where is your B2B email marketing game at in early 2016?

The use of contactless mobile payment platforms like Apple Pay, My Starbucks, Samsung Pay and Google's Android Pay - to name but a few - could grow in popularity by more than a stunning 200% in 2016. It's easy to see why. These new platforms - especially those offered by popular and global brands - are often installed by default on smartphones and quick and easy to set up and use: all it takes is a quick tap or wave in front of a card reader for payment to be made.

One of the first hurdles for any successful startup is branding your company and its products within the local market. Since so many businesses worry about their online presence these days, owners sometimes forget that having a strong local presence is also beneficial to a startup's survival. Companies who manage to establish a strong, healthy, local presence tend to function better than companies who lack such basic support. In addition, a local market is typically one of the easiest to reach because it is central to your own location. With this in mind, the following introduces some ways your company will be able to take full advantage of the market where your startup resides.

If you were given two choices between two - educated and un-educated employees, what would you choose? But what if the uneducated employee is available at low salary and other at high salary? You still wouldn’t do it? Right…? But, what if you train the underqualified employees? Training?

Surely the question pops out – Why to invest into employee training amid monetarily difficult times? The short answer is because training and developing your workers could be essential to the future accomplishment of your business.

Small businesses are the leading employer in the country. This fortitude is a direct result of entrepreneurs who believe in their products and services. Traditional strategies have served them well including business cards, store fronts, and websites. However, there are several resources they are not taking advantage of. Most of them are new technologies and here is a look at five to consider. 

When you are building your business’ website, you might focus on design, the site URL or a photo gallery to show your work. Building an entire site for your company is a lot of work, and there are thousands of tiny details that can help make your site the best. In today’s global digital marketplace, people are looking for all of their information online before picking up the phone or making a purchase.

Effective management of a remote software development team is the key to successful project implementation. Communicating with the team regularly and ensuring that they feel like a part of the core business is very important in the long run.

Here are tips to manage remote software teams effectively and efficiently:

When it comes to leadership skills, adding and improving upon them could mean great things for your personal and professional lives. Those who know how to lead are often promoted to higher positions at work, commanding a higher salary and winning accolades from professional organizations. In private life, you may be named a leader at your church, synagogue, civic organization or fundraising event. If you're hoping to improve your skills and take the lead, here are some considerations.

Marc Prensky claimed that digital native children have different requirements when it comes to learning than the digital immigrants. If we take into consideration that the Millennials are the first generation of the digital natives and that they are born between 1980 and 2000, we can see that those are people that are in school or working right now. (Nielsen Norman Group, Kate Meyer, 2016) This further means that their way of taking notes may vary. Some may still take hand written notes, while others use other types of technology to do it.