What makes a truly successful team? The individuals or the collective excellence? The mix of personalities? Does it all depend on the team leader? Hubspot Agency Post editor Jami Oetting compiles the top traits of great teams as originally posted…
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Unlikely Places to Find Inspiration
Have a project coming up that requires you to be at your creative best? Find yourself lacking focus or maybe even experiencing āwriterās blockā? Never fearā¦ inspiration is near! Inspiration is an abstract emotion that not only motivates you but…
STOPā¦ In the Name of Stress
Big event coming up? Did you just get a lead on that client you know will grow the business? Feeling excited, but a little bit nervous too? Itās understandable. Weāre most nervous when we have something big coming up and…
Baby, Come Back: How to (Successfully) Get Return Customers
Business success is driven by your ability to gain and retain repeat customers. These repeat customers spend more, spend often and love your brand. They will stay loyal, talk about your business to friends and keep coming back for more.…
Finding a Great Mentor
A successful professional life can be demanding; especially when youāre a woman juggling a career, children and a family. Most often, successful women feel a sense of guilt when they prioritize their family over their profession or vice versa. The…
Thanks for the Memories: Introducing Yourself in an Unforgettable Way
As professionals, we meet so many people out and about in the business community. Some of us meet a new person each and every day. When asked to introduce yourself, how do you react? Do you youāre your personal elevator…
A New Year, A New You: How to be Innovativeā¦ Even After 100+ Years in Business
Innovation: itās all about strategyānot spitballing, according to Ford Motor Co. CEO Mark Fields. In an article on Fortune.com, contributing editor Kirsten Korosec outlines the idea of innovation (without hurting profits) from a company that has been in business more…
A New Year, A New You: Simple Ways to Give Your Website a Stronger Presence
Itās time to start the new year on the right foot for your business. Have you been putting off your website updates or guilty of waiting around for customers to find you? Well, itās time to put some simple steps…
Following Your Dreams ā Donāt Let Fear (or anything else) Stop You!
As a kid, we heard about āfollowing your dreamsā and no profession was too far out of reach when asked āwhat do you want to be when you grow upā. To this day, we all have dreams and aspirationsāwhether personal…
The Best Skills in Life Are Free (but sometimes take time to acquire)
When it comes to work (and life) some skills are harder to learnāthey take time, effort and dedicationābut pay off in the long run. Rachel Gillett, a careers reporter at Business Insider and previous writer and editor forĀ Fast CompanyāsĀ LeadershipĀ section, narrows…
Life Hacks from a (Millennial) Entrepreneur
All of us are looking for ways to save time and find new ways to do tasks in life in a shorter amount of time, making more free time for ourselves! For an entrepreneur, this means that that you can…
Entrepreneurs and Innovators Dream > Believe > Pursue at the WISE Symposium
Over 900 attendees and exhibitors and approximately 6.2 million reached through Twitter, the 2015 WISE Symposium was a huge success in its 13thĀ year. On the morning of April 21, 2015 women entrepreneurs, students and other business professionals from all over…
The Intrinsic Impact of Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship has never been an easy undertaking. Itās an ongoing process of efforts, risk and the trial (and, oftentimes, error) of methodologies. This process requires passion, persistence and patience more than anything else. As an entrepreneur trying to make an…
Mobile Marketing: Quick Steps to Success
The āMā word. It sometimes seems that everywhere you go, people are talking about āgoing mobile.ā Whether itās for small, big or mid-sized businesses, the buzzword is mobile. Several research studies and analyses have predicted how companies are almost investing…
Startup Tips from a Billionaire Entrepreneur
As entrepreneurs, we are always looking for words of wisdom from people who are successful and have overcome challenges and hardships to become so. We do this because we relate to the struggles and hardships that theyāve faced. Richard Branson,…
Strategic Marketing and PR (without spending a fortune)
Itās important to have a solid marketing and public relations (PR) strategy that builds a strong brand of the company and maintains the image you want to project to the public. But sometimes these efforts can be quite expensive if…
Effectively Organizing Yourself (four ways to become more productive)
As an entrepreneur, quite often you end up wondering where youāre failing and why youāre failing. Even the most meticulous of business owners who prepare extensive to-do lists are trying to fix certain things. So now the question becomes āwhere…
Entrepreneurial Myths (and how to overcome them)
Various studies have shown how you need to be charismatic and daring to be an entrepreneur. They have also shown how you need to look beyond the obvious and think out of the box. Some of us may be thinking…