How to Be a Good Salesperson: The Key Steps to Take
Good sales reps will effectively earn the respect and the ongoing trust of their prospects. Great ones earn their loyalty, admiration, and new referrals. Good reps handle objections skillfully; great ones preemptively surface the concerns and eliminate them.
How to Prepare for Salary Negotiations [infographic]
In today’s market, workers and employers are ready to make a deal when it comes to job offers. According to research from global staffing firm Robert Half, 55% of professionals asked for more pay with their last employment offer, a 16-point jump [...]
6 Prospective Skills in College to Make Your Career Path Easier
The real skills you take from college are less visible and even more important than the technicalities you memorize. These skills are what employers look for in every potential employee. They’ll help you become an unstoppable force in the workplace, or a [...]
How to Dress for Work Without Becoming a Clone
Whether spoken or unspoken, every company has its employee uniform. You’ll do well to become versed in the stated or unstated clothing style of the company in which you’ve landed. Having a cavalier attitude about clothing choices, especially during your incubation period [...]
5 Ways To Encourage And Reward Your Sales Team
Working in a sales department is a hard task. This is essentially true when the company you're working with is a large company. You'll not only have competition against the other brand's team, but it is also expected that you'll have to [...]
‘You, Inc.’ Is the New Mandate
This is a guest post by Ines Temple. Rapid market changes and disruptive technologies are having an unsettling effect on the job market. They’ve resulted in a new paradigm that indicates the majority of us will not be part of a company’s [...]
Content Marketing – Avoid These 5 Guest Posting Mistakes If You Want to Get Your Article Published
It’s getting harder and harder to get traffic that converts. A lot of SEO tactics have come and gone over the years, but one strategy that continues to deliver high-level results is guest posting. By landing guest posts on popular sites that [...]
Mental Health in the Workplace
According to a recent study made by Office Supplier Viking, only 35% of managers in the UK are aware of mental health issues in the work place which means shocking nearly over half cannot detect signs in work colleagues. The study found that [...]
How to Boost Organization and Productivity when you Work from Home
A lot of people think that working from home is easy. After all, you have the freedom of working when you want, where you want and how you want. You also don’t have to worry about having a boss breathing down your [...]
Avoiding the Danger of False Beliefs: Debunking 5 Popular Career Planning Myths
Some people fall into the trap of believing what they consider to be universal truths about career planning. In reality, those “truths” are anything but, and those who buy into them are doing themselves a disservice. In this article, we will debunk [...]
Work from Home 101: Tips to Making Money Effortlessly
Are you tired of your current job and want to work from home, instead? Do you want to make money in the comfort of your home without putting too much effort? Or are you simply looking for an easy and quick job [...]
Portfolios Are the Best Way to Showcase a Contractor’s Work
Any business has to juggle real-world performance and general marketing efforts, but some areas of the workforce have a more difficult time of it. General contractors, in particular, are in a unique position. They combine firm architectural standards with a heavy dose [...]
Nearly a Quarter of Workers Quit Due to Bad Commute [Infographic]
The road to work could lead some workers to change jobs, according to new research by Robert Half. The survey found 23 percent of professionals have left an occupation due to the bad commute. Additionally, one in five respondents said their commute [...]
Important Mistakes to Avoid When Creating Your LLC
As a business owner, it is up to you to decide what’s best for your business’s success. If you are thinking about forming a California LLC, you need to ensure you don’t make some of the most common mistakes. The best way [...]
3 Communications Basics that Build Confidence
Communication is ingrained in every facet of life, yet many struggle with fear, insecurity and general ineffectiveness when they find themselves eye to eye with someone to present ideas, address complicated situations, express feelings, negotiate or just “sell them self”—all whether in [...]
3 Ways to Turbocharge Your Sales Career
"People don’t buy because what you do is awesome. People buy because it makes them feel awesome." – Tara Gentile The fortunes of any enterprise primarily rests on the effectiveness of its sales team. If people are not buying a product, then [...]
Things You Could Be Doing At Home To Advance Your Career
For some, having a career is much more than simply working a regular job to pay the bills. Being able to get yourself into a career that you can advance yourself in is important for some people because they’re able to gain [...]
The Things You Should Know About Your Workplace Rights
Even if you don’t know it, or it doesn’t feel like, you do have rights in the workplace. It’s a sad reality that employees don’t learn these rights until they engage workplace lawyers, but they exist and need to be respected. If [...]
The Easiest Way to Jumpstart Your Career
Maybe you’re in a slump, your life is complete chaos right now, or you’re even just a little bored. No matter what it is that’s keeping you down, there is an easy way to make the most of your time. Instead of [...]
Know Your Pace: Are You a Long-Distance Runner or a Sprinter?
The business world is evolving, and so is how you fit into it. Organizations have adopted layoffs, reorganizations, leader changes, and strategy shifts as the new “gold standard” of doing business. But what at first glance appears to be terrible is actually an [...]
Steps To Setting Up a Freelance Business Alongside Full-Time Work
More and more people (in fact over 54 million Americans), are choosing to have a non-traditional job, and deciding to work for themselves in a freelance business. Whether it is to pursue a passion project, want a more flexible career, or want [...]
Making Money Online – A Few Ways that Can Work for Anyone
A job doesn't need to be 9 to 5 anymore, or restricted to an office or city. Technology has opened up different avenues which offers flexibility to work from anywhere. From creating quality and sticky content to affiliate marketing and hosting a [...]
On Career Crossroads: Here’s How to Find the Right Career Path
We are not all fortunate enough to be on the right career path. Many people have found themselves in a job that they don’t particularly enjoy, but they stay in the position out of necessity. Often it's not a lack of effort [...]
Beyond Internship – 3 Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level
So you were lucky to land a great internship that's offered you the experience you had wanted to kick-start your career. You're 6 months into your internship and loving what you do, but have you planned on the next 6 months and [...]
5 Ways Merging Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain Technology will Revolutionize Data Marketing
This is a guest post by Adam Mittelberg. One of the biggest challenges marketers face today is customer acquisition and retention. The key to both acquiring new customers and retaining current customers is possessing the critical data that can help you, one, [...]