As a responsible business owner, you want to ensure that your employees are safe as they go about their daily work. Healthy employees are likely high on your priority list.

Workplace safety matters, not only because you don't want people to get hurt in general, but because workplace accidents and lawsuits are costly for business owners.

Today’s woman is a multi-tasker juggling many things, managing personal and professional commitments from family to children to careers. While it is great to experience the rush and thrill of working from office, it may sometimes be easier and more comfortable to work from home especially when you have people to take care of such as small children or  you are having some incapacity. In these cases, it is good to look for options and ideas which can get you running your office from the home and yet keep you financially independent and happy. You can start planning such a long-term avenue of work from college days onwards.

It’s a hectic Tuesday morning—you’re scheduling meetings with investors, emailing the new marketing assistant, and trying to figure out how to improve the way you run your business. Being an entrepreneur means you’re on top of everything your startup needs—even though at times it may not feel like it—but are you taking the time to learn new things so you can recharge and grow, too?

Hello from the farm, living the dream alpaca farm that is. We just completed our first round of shows where we bring our clothing made from the wool of our alpacas to meet the public. The public responded very positive to our alpaca products. We started at the Champlain Valley Fair in Essex Junction Vt. It was a 10 day show and we did very well.

Meetings, meetings, meetings!

If there is one thing that can drive people crazy, it is wasting their time attending lots of meetings without head or tails and focus. Just looking at the schedule of meetings can leave you fighting for breath. 

Your boss calls you for a meeting, there may be departmental meeting, a company meeting, and you need to meet up with colleagues to plan something for the team. Heck, you may even need to attend meetings at home. Meetings are usually amongst the most hated routines of work life. Students can find meetings hard to handle but a positive attitude can make a lot of difference.

The job market is super competitive. Therefore when people get the rare opportunity to make a choice between two employment options, they take absolute care to ensure they are making the right decision.  The dilemma is easy in some cases but in other times, not so much. One of such dilemmas is when you have to choose between working for a multinational business with dozens of offices worldwide or working with a startup that has a huge potential. On the surface, many people will quickly go with the first but anyone that knows the 8 reasons we have covered below will think long and hard!

If your business needs unlimited access to its data as well as unparalleled scalability, then the cloud is the perfect solution.

With that said, even though you take advantage of cloud computing, your business may not be getting the most out of its current cloud activities.

Here are a handful of businesses like yours that need better cloud performance:

Finding office space to fit your workforce, technology, and productivity can be a challenge. The type of business model is also an important component as it addresses customer and vendor traffic and your budgets dictate the ability to locate a diverse selection of options to choose from. Here are four categories to consider when looking at older business parks and what to watch out for.

Proactive management of the business' online presence is a priority for today's managers. In today's environment, active web promotion of the company's products, services, reputation and uniqueness are critical. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the art of efficacious online business promotion. Effective SEO no longer means a printable online report showing high search engine rankings for a broad keyword range with no tangible results. Successful businesses take advantage of targeted strategies driving web-related business. This article explores six contemporary effective SEO strategies.

When credit cards are used wisely, they are a convenient way for any business owner to access money. Credit cards can be valuable for businesses as dependable sources of funding that keep them stable. Cards are a key source of finance for businesses with a significant percentage of them relying on credit cards to raise capital.