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5 Things to Remember as You Launch Your Home-Based Speaking/Coaching Business
Launching a speaking and/or coaching career is an excellent way to create a viable home-based business that can generate generous profit margins. Oftentimes, business owners only think of speaking as it relates to live appearances on big stages, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. Speaking spans across many platforms, including [...]
Franchise Owner Offers Solutions for Changing the Cycle of Poverty in America
Franchising is uniquely situated to address the problem of poverty in America and affect serious change by encouraging employment for those who need it most, according to Azim Saju, Vice President and General Counsel for HDG Hotels. Saju submitted a statement for the record today on behalf of the International Franchise Association to [...]
5 Things to Remember as You Launch Your Home-Based Speaking/Coaching Business
Launching a speaking and/or coaching career is an excellent way to create a viable home-based business that can generate generous profit margins. Oftentimes, business owners only think of speaking as it relates to live appearances on big stages, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. Speaking spans across many platforms, including [...]
6 Ideas to Make Your Meetings Memorable
Get the Most Out of Your Speaker Investment In a perfect world, you would have an unlimited budget to hire top keynote speakers for all your meetings and conventions. Since it’s not, here are some proven suggestions that have been successfully incorporated by many companies and associations. Adopt them into your meeting planning process, [...]
The Five Dos And Don’ts of Practical SEO
Copyright: pixelsaway / 123RF Stock Photo 1. Onsite is a huge part of any SEO campaign. If a file is mislabelled, duplicate, or filed in the wrong spot, you aren’t going to know where to put it. Google uses your title tags, meta-descriptions, content, and h-tags as little labels for your site and knows where to categorize it based [...]
Basic Business Principles to Follow
Businesses and the ways in which they are conducted are constantly changing. Business is evolving to adapt to the nuances of the decade or the generation. This is how organizations remain relevant as the consumer base they cater to chases different trends. There are, however, some principles that simply never go out of style. These [...]
Harmless Harvest Coconut Water’s ‘Ecosystem Business Model’ Makes Sustainability a Reality
For many consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, the constraints of capitalism naturally mean practices that compromise the environment. But Harmless Harvest — the world’s first Fair-for-Life-certified coconut water — is leading the charge towards sustainability at every level of its business. Harmless Harvest is [...]
Freelance Careers to Consider
When you think of freelancers, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? It might be someone who makes a living by writing, marketing, or virtually assisting others, right? Most people think of freelancers as professionals who work in creative, business, or marketing services, but that’s not always the case. There is a whole world of [...]
Join the Víos Revolution: Become an Independent Brand Partner
From left to right: Lori Patterson, vice president – marketing; Dr. Gordon Tessler, PhD, lead product developer for Vios Nutrition; Kathy Woodrum, vice president – customer service; Laura Tessler, Joseph Land, co-founder; Lanae Agee, co-founder and chief wellness officer Víos Nutrition Launches; Introduces First Nutritional Supplement [...]
Start a Real Estate Business: 5 Tricks to Becoming an Investor
Investing in real estate isn’t for everyone. It takes time, money and a significant amount of learning. That shouldn’t scare people off, however, as millions of people have learned to invest in real estate with little or no starting knowledge, and done quite well. If you’re thinking about it, or have already made your first [...]