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10 Hilarious Signs You Should Not Take That Job (Infographic)
Join us in Miami, Chicago or Denver for our Accelerate Your Business event series kicking off in February. Discover solutions to optimize team performance, improve company productivity, and position your business for continued success. See dates and details » Looking for a job is like dating. If you’re not careful, you could end up with [...]
Is the Video Profile 'Shark Tank's' Kiss of Death?
Remember the red-shirted crewman on the original Star Trek landing parties? You know: the anonymous security man who got zotzed by hostile aliens after only 30 seconds of screen time? As soon as this guy beamed down to the planet surface, viewers knew: “Oh, he’s a goner, for sure.” Related: 5 Surprising Things I Learned From Interviewing [...]
The 6 Musts of a Cover Letter
While perusing the job advertisements of your favorite career site, you’ve just found a position that seems tailor-made for you. That’s a common scenario, but unfortunately, one that often strikes fear into the hearts of even the most seasoned job seekers. After all, there are a lot of steps to go through between locating a job and [...]
DIY Ring Holder Jewelry Dish
We all have a little clutter around us. Teacup saucers, mugs, plastics figurines, and paint from the backyard DIY you did four years ago. For many of us, living means accumulating, and sometimes there’s just a lot of stuff that’s useful, but not exactly useful to you. Well, what if you could make these things useful again? Welcome to [...]
Maximize Your Start-Up Profits by Reducing Your Taxes
The Key is Good Recordkeeping You’ve probably heard the expression, “It’s not what you make; it’s what you keep that matters.” One of the ways you can keep more of your business income is by reducing the taxes you pay. While taxes may not be foremost in your mind this time of year, business people who pay the least tax are those who are [...]
4 Essentials for Growing an On-Demand Company
Join us in Miami, Chicago or Denver for our Accelerate Your Business event series kicking off in February. Discover solutions to optimize team performance, improve company productivity, and position your business for continued success. See dates and details » The “On-Demand” industry is exploding: one can hail a citizen driver almost [...]
Three Ways Startups Lose Money
Everybody has to start somewhere. It doesn’t matter if you are Google, Adidas or Apple, your roots were planted as a startup business. Like all these businesses, you start on a relatively level playing field, with an idea. The next step is getting funding and investments, to help that idea grow. However, this is where problems arise, as [...]
5 Steps to Create a 1-Page Strategic Plan for Your Business
When I started Cutler PR six years ago, I didn’t have time to ponder and strategize over complex business plans. I needed to dedicate every second to getting results for our clients so that we could build a brand name and grow our reputation and referrals. Since then, we’ve experienced amazing growth. So much so that now we can’t [...]
Protect Yourself from Financial Fraud
Security Tips for the Self-Employed By Christopher J. Bachler The first rule for home businesses and boxers is the same: “Always keep your guard up.” That’s because fraud in the business world today is more common than ever before. Advanced technology, the “shrinking world,” and the ongoing growth of a “virtual economy” are all partly to [...]
6 Ways to Kill Your Startup
Sometimes the best way to learn how to do something is to understand how NOT to do something—to think of things in reverse. Ben Stein (of Ferris Bueller fame) achieved this with great effect with his book, How to Ruin Your Life. Buried in the book’s tongue-in-cheek humor and masked by its sardonic tone were some life lessons that I’ve [...]