by No matter where you work, it’s important that your office environment makes your job easier, not more difficult. If your workspace isn’t equipped with certain essential tools, you threaten your ability to be productive, and you increase the probability that your workdays will feel long and stressful. Thankfully, there are a few simple tools…
by If you would like to attract the right talent in your business, it is important that you don’t rely on the traditional channels. Ordinary methods will only get you ordinary results. If you would like something more, and get exceptional staff to help you grow your business, you might need to get creative. Outsourcing…
by Starting up your own business has always been a dream of yours, but actually making it happen is a whole different story. You realise it isn’t going to be easy to begin with, but you are willing to work extremely hard to make it into the best it can possibly be. There are many…
by One of the best aspects of growing your business is hiring new talent to join the team. Great employees can infuse the company with additional capacity, drive, and creativity. On the other hand, bad employees can keep your company from growing as fast as it should. Now, we all want to hire the…
by The paradoxical thing about the very aspect of the insurance is the fact that this is an investment that you’re making, hoping that you’ll never have to capitalize on it. Still, while it’s in your best interest to let this investment go to waste, venturing into the business world without securing yourself on this…
by Woodworkers may soon no longer have to deal with cleaning up dust when using a router, thanks to a new invention hatched through prototyping. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) senior Maddie Frank and UWM Prototyping Center director Kyle Jansson recently shared an award from the Additive Manufacturing Group for using 3-D printing to create a…
by If you’re working 40 hours per week or more, you’re spending most of your time at work. Since it is the place where you are spending more time than even your house (at least in waking hours!) it is important that the environment be an enjoyable one. Yet, the day-to-day duties of work can…
by When it comes to increasing the growth and efficiency of any business, automation should be the first word that comes to your mind. If you’re not taking advantage of the myriad tools and platforms for automating certain aspects of your business in today’s competitive environment, you are putting yourself at a severe disadvantage that…
by This is a recent interview I did with Mike Frankel about starting his premium and advanced world-class expert freelancers business called Liquid.Social. 1) Tell me a little bit about your business Thanks for the interview, Alex! Our goal is to make remote consulting more accessible and convenient. Experts are constantly asked for free advice…
by Markforged founder and CEO Greg Mark grew up taking apart machines for fun, from VCRs to blenders to bicycles, says Industry Week. But he didn’t learn computer science until later in his career, so when he started hiring recent college graduates to help him with his 3-D printer manufacturing startup, he discovered they were…