The dawn of a new year is the perfect time to take a good look at your business’ communication strategy. You can reflect on your past strategy, create a plan for change and get everyone on board for the transition. Maybe you made even more progress last year than you expected, and you’re ready to scale. Maybe you have new business goals that require a different marketing approach. Or maybe you spent last year gathering data and you’re ready to instill the necessary changes.

Regardless of your specific circumstances, there are some key methods all organizations should make to improve their voice. Here are three ways to hone your business communication strategy in 2019.

We live in the era of innovation, when the vast majority of the world is embracing a forward-looking mindset and startups flourish around every corner. In such a blossoming environment, it makes perfect sense for you as an aspiring entrepreneur to accomplish your professional goals and kick-start your own business. In addition to being fulfilling, starting your own business comes with a slew of challenges you’ll need to prepare yourself for in order to ensure success.

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

Walt Disney’s advice may seem simplistic, but in today’s world of impressive technology giving everyone the chance to be their own boss and run their own business, it is now truer than ever. If you have an idea and want to become self-employed to see that idea come to fruition, now is the best time to do it.

“Early to bed, early to rise makes a [wo]man healthy, wealthy and wise.” - Ben Franklin

You’ve heard it said a million times before: the early bird catches the worm, and in the opinion of many highly successful people, the phrase is much more than a cliche. The benefits of an extremely early morning routine have been touted by so many self-made celebrities that the “4 AM Club” has become a part of the public vernacular. Any web search will pull up a dozen articles with contradictory research on the benefits and downsides of the routine, along with firsthand accounts of people “taking the 4 AM challenge.”

When you invest in a new software program, it can be a little overwhelming to figure out how it works. Depending on the software, it might be very complicated, and you might struggle at first. To help you with this, we have put together some tips on the basics of learning a new software. Keep reading to find out more.

Having a successful business can be both exciting and quite exhausting at the same time. Many people believe that an entrepreneur’s life consists of partying, expensive suits, VIP hotel rooms, and conventions all around the world. While that’s true in some cases, most business owners don’t live that way, and in fact, the vast majority of them struggles to make their business grow further.

No matter if you’re chasing that big promotion or you’re running your own business and you want to increase your profits, getting more work done is the way to go. And if you’re wondering how to do this, the answer lies in technology. There are new gadgets and gizmos being released every day and some of these can increase your office productivity significantly. We singled out five of these that could be exactly what you need.

I had a birthday this past Sunday (not that you bothered to call).

And I have to tell you, it was one of the best I can ever remember.

It began Saturday night when friends came over for dinner (punctuated by my wife Linda bringing out a delicious chocolate cake).

Sunday, we drove into Boston to catch a Celtics game, happened to run into our friends Tom and Marie while walking through TD Garden, and agreed to meet up afterwards.

While there were two government shutdown periods in 2018, luckily they were too short for the U.S. population to feel an impact on everyday life. However, the current shutdown, which started on December 21, 2018 and is dragging for over three weeks, is threatening the functioning of hundreds of thousands of small businesses across the country. According to J.P. Morgan, the economy is losing $1.5 billion per week.

Natural disasters occur anytime, anywhere. They pay no respect to how long you have been in business or how prestigious your company might be. Nature's fury manifests in many ways. Damage to your business may happen with severe storms, high winds, fires and flooding, to cyclones, tornadoes and hurricanes. This is even more likely if your business is located within a disaster zone. If you have not prepared for the worst natural disaster, your company may be at risk. Here are some ways to protect your business, your employees, and yourself.