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Showing posts with label #business. Show all posts

Thursday, January 22, 2015

10 Employee Feedback Survey Questions to Ask

Employee feedback surveys can be great tools for keeping your team happy and engaged in your business. But not all employee feedback surveys are created equal. There are always certain topics you should try to cover to ensure that your employees are satisfied with their work and have a way to provide feedback. These questions all fall under the primary purpose of getting employee feedback for you to identify areas that may need improvement.
Below are ten employee feedback survey questions you should include in your next survey. You can change the wording or question type to better fit your needs. But each question represents an important topic that you should cover with your employees.


10 Employee Feedback Survey Questions to Ask

Tootsie Roll names 83-year old widow as new CEO - Jan. 22, 2015

Tootsie Roll lost its 95-year old CEO this week -- and then tapped his 83-year old widow to take his place.

Melvin and Ellen Gordon, who were married for 65 years, ran the Chicago candy maker together for decades. Melvin became a director of the family-controlled company in 1952. Ellen became a director there in 1969 and served as president since 1978.


Tootsie Roll names 83-year old widow as new CEO - Jan. 22, 2015

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Luxury Brands Study Reveals Customers Are Misunderstood

Businesses need to understand their customers in order to succeed. They need to know who their customers are, what kinds of products they appreciate, what they appreciate in a shopping experience, and more. But according to a recent study, there’s one type of business that isn’t really doing this effectively.
A study conducted by Epsilon concluded that luxury brands lose up to 50 percent of their top clientele annually due to misidentified demographic and economic information, as well as failure to create a personalized shopping experience.


Luxury Brands Study Reveals Customers Are Misunderstood

Vistaprint - Not Just Free Business Cards

The year was 1995. Robert Keane, an American in Paris attending business school, started a company.
Like many startups, the company struggled at first.


Vistaprint - Not Just Free Business Cards

How to Say Hello in Different Languages for World Travelers

Are you a world traveler? If so, you’ll likely need to know how to say hello in different languages. Cartoonist and illustrate James Chapman created an infographic called “How to Answer the Phone in 10 Languages,” which teaches us how to say hello on the telephone around the world.



How to Say Hello in Different Languages for World Travelers

Startup Helps Survivors Overcome Hardships with Crafts

Consumers love buying goods that come with a story. It makes a simple purchase into an actual experience instead of just a product. And it can be even better if the story comes with some kind of social cause.
TO THE MARKET is a social enterprise that aims to empower those who have survived things like abuse, conflict and disease. The company provides multiple distribution channels for survivors to sell their handmade goods. But it also provides an online platform for them to share their stories with the hope of raising awareness about important issues.


Startup Helps Survivors Overcome Hardships with Crafts

How to Get a Fresh Start on Lead Generation

Many business owners and sales managers start a new year with big goals and high hopes. Maybe you’d like to boost sales 10 percent or break into a new market. Or maybe you’d like to launch a new product line. But if you want your visions of sales success to become reality, you need to have careful planning, a clear-eyed perspective on the current state of your business and a willingness to change.
If you’re trying to get bigger sales and better lead generation results, below are a few key ideas and insights to consider:


How to Get a Fresh Start on Lead Generation

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Umano Reads Articles Aloud So You Can Listen on the Go

If you want to keep up to date on the latest news and advice on the go, then Umano's gonna' scratch that itch. From a content and mobile marketing perspective, there are a lot of opportunities to explore inside the Umano platform, despite the lack of any real-world case success stories.



Umano Reads Articles Aloud So You Can Listen on the Go

Successful Entrepreneurs Never Do These 7 Things

In a business person’s day, there are always more tasks than hours. The key to being successful is not to do more multitasking in an effort to cram more into each day. It’s not to work harder with longer hours to get everything done. What separates very successful people from the rest of the pack is not what they do, but actually what they never ever do. For example:



Successful Entrepreneurs Never Do These 7 Things

Monday, January 19, 2015

No More Tipping at This Pittsburgh Restaurant

A Pittsburgh eatery has done away with one of the most common practices in the restaurant industry. Bar Marco announced last week that it will eliminate tipping and instead pay its full-time employees a living wage.
Full-time servers at Bar Marco currently make $5 per hour in addition to tips, which is above the state-required minimum wage for servers. But starting in April, the restaurant will instead pay full-time employees an annual salary of $35,000 with health care and company shares.


No More Tipping at This Pittsburgh Restaurant

14 Percent of Millennial Business Owners Use Alternative Lending

It used to be that if you wanted to start a business you had to get a bank loan or bootstrap it yourself. Those days are no longer, as more and more non-traditional lending sources continue to pop up. And more entrepreneurs — particularly young entrepreneurs — are taking notice.
According to a recent Bank of America study, 14 percent of millennial business owners have turned to non-traditional lending services. These include things like peer-to-peer lending platform Lending Club or online service OnDeck Capital, both of which went public within the last month.


14 Percent of Millennial Business Owners Use Alternative Lending