Alameda Business Blogs:
Do You Have What It Takes to Become an Entrepreneur?
Do you have dreams about owning your own business or becoming part of the gig economy? Making your own hours? Working from wherever you want? Then you’re not alone. There are an estimated 582 million entrepreneurs (about 775,000 of them in the US) already working for themselves. And that number is growing. According to Guidant…
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How to Cope in a One-person Business
Making ends meet is top of mind for a lot of business owners and employees these days. Many one-person businesses are straining to meet demand and now it’s become more difficult to hire. Whether you are the boss and the only employee or you’re running a skeleton staff of you and a lone employee, the following tips…
Read More...Dealing with Angry Customers When You’re Short Staffed
The scene is a common one these days. Lines of people waiting to pay in a restaurant, retail establishment, or grocery store. Tempers flare. Customers yell at staff and wonder why there’s only one person checking people out. Your staff thinks, “Who needs this?” and they’re not wrong. They feel overworked and underappreciated. Customers are…
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5 Creative Ways to Find Employees Post-Pandemic
Let’s face it. You can’t throw a rock these days without hitting a help wanted sign. If someone wants to work, there is little stopping them on the employer side. (There may be things like childcare or scheduling on the employee’s side but that’s another article.) If you’re running ads along with all the other…
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Clean up Your Data for Increased Sales
While we summer is quickly approaching, it’s not too late to do some spring cleaning with your data. A nice clean email list can help you make the most of your ecommerce and increase summer sales. No better time than the present. 4 Ways to Spruce Up Your Digital Marketing for Increased Sales Customer data…
Read More...Building Trust in a Post-Pandemic World
If you were paying attention this week, you undoubtedly heard about the “gas crisis” where a cyberattack crippled a major pipeline. As if that wasn’t bad enough, consumers across the country panicked, running to the gas station to fill up whatever container they had, creating a gas shortage that was reminiscent of the toilet paper…
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Master the Basics of Good Content to Increase Sales
Writing is difficult for a lot of people. You may worry about your mastery of grammar or vocabulary. Maybe you just don’t think you have anything interesting to say. But if you have something to sell, you need to learn the basics of good content, at least until you can pay someone to do it…
Read More...6 Email Subject Lines That Get Clicks
Your email content can be the best thing out there, but if people don’t open your emails, the emails might as well be blank. Two things make recipients click: who it’s from and how appealing the subject line is. In that order. That’s one reason it’s smart to send emails from a person (or at…
Read More...Why You Need Someone in Charge of Employee Engagement Immediately
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, engagement is critical to your business. Now more than ever. Being told you need to engage your audience is not new, but the pandemic has created a bunch of new reasons why it’s incredibly important, especially with employees. If you don’t have the time for employee…
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