Demonstrating genuine corporate social responsibility is a huge concern in the modern world. In fact, companies that contribute to the community and their employees are statistically more successful. Every year Fortune Magazine ranks the top 50 most admired companies in the world. Below introduces the top five companies and why they are the most widely admired companies in the world. 

If your business would benefit from more flexible telephony that costs less than a traditional telephone line, SIP trunking can help you.

SIP, or Session Initiation Protocol, is the technology that is used to establish voice communications over a data network, for example when using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phones.

I grew up in a family business. My father and brother still run that business today. So, you could say there is a soft spot in my heart for what family businesses represent and the enormous role they play in the U.S. economy. For example:

• 64% of the U.S Gross Domestic Product (GDP) comes from family-owned business
  

When looking where to place your office, a lot of factors will matter in the decision making process.

Do you want to be in a more industrial area, or in the midst of a residential one? Will you benefit from being in a residential area as opposed to an industrial one? You may want to consider a mixed use development.

Let's get one thing straight right now.   If you are looking for the perfect business, stop looking, it doesn't exist.   And if you really want to buy a business you need to settle!  That's right buying a business is a lot like being in a bar at 2am...ponder on that for a moment.   Seriously all businesses have their drawbacks, risks, pain points, skeletons in the closet and warts.     Your job is to find them all, understand them completely, decide if you can manage them and if they will stop you from buying.

Is Microsoft relevant to your business?

It's become fashionable in recent years to make jokes at Microsoft's expense, but the fact remains that Microsoft is still a big name in business computing, and its products could be doing more for your business than you realize.

There's no doubt that other platforms can offer your business plenty of flexible solutions too, but is it time to forget about Microsoft altogether?

No business can function today without proper online existence. It includes various things, such as social media campaigning, email strategies, website creation and other related services. For startups, making profiles or pages on social networks could be a free and efficient way of becoming known to online audience. However, a successful business will have to expand the range of its Internet-related business strategies.

As you know, having a mobile-friendly website is basically a requirement to running a successful business. Since the Yellow Pages are dead, your business needs a presence online that customers can visit before calling you or making a purchase.

A few years ago, you might have been going back and forth trying to decide whether your business should have a website or not. Today, the choice has been made for you. Instead, the question on most small business owners’ minds is, “Should I have a blog?”

A large number of successful and well-known entrepreneurs have either dropped out of college or skipped college altogether to start their respective businesses. While the opportunity to start a business might have presided over their need to finish college at the time, completing a degree comes with a variety of benefits that any entrepreneur can use to their advantage.

Until quite recently, women had to choose between two life paths: to dedicate themselves to their family or to pursue a successful career. This sacrifice is something that caused (and still causes) an internal conflict. Women who want to have both find themselves in an unfavorable position – those who decide not to have a family deny themselves a beautiful experience and those who decide not to go back to work often regret that later, when their children grow up. Although there are still some women who feel like this, today’s career possibilities enabled us to have it all – most women decide to work from home and keep their careers.