Converting employees into influential leaders is crucial for the success of any business. To do this, it’s important to provide leadership training for your employees that provides a platform for them to develop essential leadership skills and qualities that focus on critical thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, and communicating. What is Leadership Training? Leadership training refers to…
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Project Management: A Guide for Small Business
Project management (PM) is the process of planning and managing a project to accomplish predetermined objectives. Projects vary, from mounting a launch event to developing new software solutions to anything else teams and businesses want to accomplish. In a nutshell, managing a project involves setting goals, identifying tasks, overseeing the progress, and guiding the team….
POS Data Analysis: What It Is & How It Drives Growth
While your point-of-sale (POS) system helps you manage multiple aspects of your business—everything from inventory and product management to marketing and staff optimization—it also gathers a ton of valuable information in the process. If you take the time to look at this POS data and analyze it to spot trends and patterns, you’ll find many…
Foreclosure & REO Listings: Differences & How to Get Them
Foreclosure and real estate-owned (REO) properties mean owners are in unfortunate financial situations and can no longer afford their properties. This presents an opportunity for real estate agents to get new listings, help people in need, and improve their community by finding the right buyer or investor. To learn how to get foreclosure listings, you…
Vacant Home Insurance: Providers, Cost & Coverage
Vacant home insurance covers homes that are unoccupied for an extended period. It typically costs 50% to 60% more than your traditional home insurance policy, or around $2,170 yearly. Vacant home insurance costs more than traditional home insurance because unoccupied properties have a higher risk of exposure to weather damage, theft, and vandalism. We evaluated…
Hiring Employees in China: What US Employers Need to Know
China has a fast-growing economy and hundreds of millions of highly skilled workers, which can help your organization grow at a fraction of the cost you’d pay your domestic workers. This makes it appealing for US employers when hiring employees in China. However, it’s illegal for foreign employers to hire in China, and to comply…
Customer Satisfaction Survey Templates & Top Questions to Ask
Businesses that regularly collect customer feedback outperform businesses that don’t. Using CSAT surveys is easy and can give you immediate, actionable feedback.
A customer satisfaction (CSAT) survey is a questionnaire that businesses send to shoppers after they have made a purchase or received a service from your business. It is designed to capture sentiment around a particular product or experience rather than overall loyalty to your business. We’ve included two downloadable survey templates just below. Our guide…
PCI Non-compliance Fee: What It Is & How To Avoid It
A PCI non-compliance fee may be charged by merchant services providers or payment processors when a business does not meet minimum security standards when processing card payments. Fees range from $20 every month up to $5,000 or more, depending on the details of non-compliance and security breach, if any. These security standards—known collectively as the…