Five Recipes to Make Your Thanksgiving Menu Stand Out This year, put your own, distinctive touch on traditional Thanksgiving dishes to inject some excitement into the meal. Thanksgiving is quickly approaching. Look no further if you want to shake things up this year and get inventive in the kitchen. On the annual November holiday,...
Mass Layoffs in 2022: What’s Next for Employees? In the business world, mass layoffs are a difficult but frequent occurrence that often leaves employees unsure of how they’ll be affected and what to do in the event that they receive a pink slip. The US employment market is now strong, with low unemployment rates...
10 Simple Time Management Tips for Small Business Owners Daily responsibilities for business owners are extensive. You may neglect time management while you balance your many responsibilities. A mediocre businessperson can become a small business owner of excellent caliber with good time management abilities. You won’t waste time if you practice proper time management. There...
How to Minimize the Lead Conversion Gap There has been a gap between the marketing and sales businesses for many years now. How then, as business owners, can we reduce the distance between leads and conversions if that is the case? The misalignment of the marketing and sales departments is what causes the lead...
How to Understand the Relationship Between Social Media and SEO Nobody could have imagined social media would have such an influence when it first began to take off in the 20th century. Globally, 4.55 billion people utilize social media today. The importance of a company’s social media presence is demonstrated by the fact that...
Reaching out to potential clients via cold calling offers both many advantages and difficulties. The practice of calling prospective clients whom you have never spoken to before is known as cold calling. Some advantages of cold calling include strengthening your marketing and enhancing your sales pitch. Cold calling has a number of drawbacks as...
“Quiet Hiring” In today’s world, “Quiet hiring” is the new method of hiring for many employers. Companies like Google are trying to hire people who work in overdrive, despite the fact that some people want to be on record as working in cruise control. More specifically, Google employs “quiet hiring,” a covert recruiting approach. It...
Financing Options for Small Businesses: Small Business owners have numerous financing options available, from traditional installment loans to lines of credit to microloans. However, the requirements for capital vary based on the nature of the firm. There are several loan solutions accessible, depending on your needs, whether you’re completely new to the market, your...
We are asked all of the time – What are virtual assistants and virtual assistant services? We put together our list of Top 5 Virtual Assistant Services. Let’s get into this… First, A virtual assistant is a person who offers various services to a business or entrepreneur, remotely. Virtual assistants assist you with administrative work,...
At MCDA CCG Inc., we see project management requests from government and private sector clients. In most cases, our clients are interested in an “agile” approach to project management. In comparison, other clients are more familiar with a traditional “waterfall” approach. We see benefits in both project management methodologies, depending on the project’s parameters. WHAT...
Hosting a work event is a combination of a lot of planning, errands to be run, time management, set-up time and much more that goes into it. Holding an event at your workplace is either a great time or can cause stress on the business due to having to rearrange your workday- in order to...
CEOs’ opinion of their CMOs is the subject of a new study. It seems that little information is available about how CMOs are perceived by their bosses, so we wanted to find out. The study also aimed to add to the learning about the trust gap between CEOs and CMOs. Despite the abundance of data...
Funding is a constant need for every business no matter where they are in their journey. Maybe your company is now ready to grow, and you need funding options to help it grow. If you are seeking funding, it’s imperative that you identify why you need it in the first place, as well as how...
The top reasons companies should prepare for the departure of their CEOs is by having in place a corporate leadership succession and transition plan is essential to ensuring corporate leadership succession and continuity during a transition. Howard Schultz’s announcement last week that he would end his third tenure as Starbucks’ CEO early next year reminded...
It’s apparent that sales force people need to change up how they deliver their sales pitch. There are times where you come across a certain statistic and it makes you stop, think and reevaluate at times. This statistic was shared on the second slide of the presentation: 72% of B2B buyers prefer to deal with...
Founders and CEOs are having a hard when it comes to thinking outside of the box. Research and data suggest that creativity is one of the top skills for business success today. Globally, creativity was rated as an important emerging skill in the 2020 World Economic Forum report entitled “Future of Jobs.” Nevertheless, experienced...
Millions of people buy on Amazon. You need a competitive advantage. Having your products buried on Amazon is not something you want if no one buys them. If you’re here, you already know the U.S. retail eCommerce market dominance of Amazon. What you don’t know is how to be a part of it. How...
I’m assuming by now a majority of business individuals have read the article that came out regarding Elon Musk’s opinion on “coddling your employees”. Musk, the CEO of Tesla, is getting hot on social media after sending an email to Tesla employees demanding that they work at least 40 hours per week in-office as a...
When you have a new business, you are easily excited to announce your products and services. Whether you’re trying to promote your new business with a raffle or other various tactics to promote, free isn’t always good. Freebies encourage people to try your business. They’re more likely to come back if they have a positive...
On Memorial Day, most of us enjoy a day off work and celebrate the unofficial start of summer by boating, having barbeques or shopping the Memorial Day sales. Being with loved ones is a meaningful way to spend the day, but it’s also important to remember fallen soldiers and veterans on Memorial Day. Whether you...
Were your employees feeling the need to do things their own way or did your company have trouble keeping records? You may want to consult a consultant to avoid these issues and prevent unnecessary losses. A company’s internal controls go beyond its financial operations. Internal Controls at every level of an organization address all...
Despite their grand ambitions for their company, entrepreneurs often face seasons of struggle. One reason many companies fail is that they don’t get enough good advice. Statistics show that many businesses fail after five years. As an entrepreneur, you are in a unique position — you not only own the business, but you are its...
There has been so much chatter lately about the bill that congress is trying to pass for a four-day work week. Now, you may be thinking “Oh, that’s great!”, not necessarily for a lot of people. It’s a very fine line of who’s all for it and who’s all against it. It’s probably now...
Whether you own or manage a small business, Fortune 500 company or multi-location firm, you need to maintain a positive online reputation to establish your thought-leadership brand and gain better online recognition. Online reputation management allows you to do just that. Reputation management is the practice of safeguarding the online reputation of an individual, company...
Consulting selling is a sales technique in which the salesperson acts as a consultant to determine the customer’s needs. Rather than trying to sell a product, consultative selling focuses on establishing a relationship of trust between the salesperson and the customer. Consultants have been referred to as value-added vendors, need-satisfaction sellers, and professional sellers over...
