Business & Startups

Cold-Calling Your Way to $100k – A Step-by-Step Strategy You Can Use

Ever wonder what sales tactics startups and major tech companies use to scale? Highly  successful companies such as Yelp, Seamless, and especially Groupon were built from the ground up through cold calling. My first job out of college was doing sales at one of the coolest tech companies in the country, Google […]

How Small Business Can Motivate Employees

Here’s What We’re Covering: Your employees are your most valuable assets and managing them is critical to your business, albeit challenging. This is especially true for small businesses where employee productivity is a serious concern. However, you cannot blame the employees alone for lower productivity. Employers too play a significant […]

Honesty IS the Best Policy in Business (Usually)

Here’s What We’re Covering: It doesn’t always pay to be good. There are huge stretches of human history where the only way to win has been to lie, cheat, and steal. Luckily for those of us who suck at being bad, goodness is paying off. Particularly honesty. It doesn’t always […]

9 Startup Strategies You Can’t Afford to Ignore in 2015

Your head is probably hurting right now from the sheer volume of articles you’ve read about what you need to do to make it successful. Let’s start by quashing an assumption: You don’t need to know everything, ok? You’re going to find it far easier to start your business if […]

4 Strategies to Uncover Your Next Big Business Idea

Here’s What We’re Covering: It’s daunting, isn’t it? You want to start a business, but you don’t have the time or money to test idea after idea only to discover that they won’t be profitable. You don’t want to be a statistic: just another wantrepreneur whose business idea failed. But what if […]

11 Insanely Actionable Steps To Get More Reddit Traffic Fast!

1. Keep It Relevant If you want to get large amounts of traffic from reddit, you have to keep your posts highly relevant to the users. This means that the more that you can tailor your posts to the subreddit that you’re posting in, the better. Avoid posting content that […]

Scale Your Mental Energy Like Obama and Steve Jobs

Why would a tech giant – with billions of dollars – willingly choose to wear a black turtleneck, Levi’s 501 jeans, and New Balance 992 sneakers day-in and day-out for over a decade? One of the reasons he chose to wear the turtleneck, jeans, and sneakers every day was that it […]