Want to Kill Your Ecommerce Business? Then Make These Mistakes!

Want to Kill Your Ecommerce Business? Then Make These Mistakes!

Contributed Post Pexels So you're looking to start an ecommerce business. That's great and everything, but are you sure you're ready for this? Many people make this sort of pursuit out to be pretty easy. In fact, a lot of businesses depend on you assuming that it's going to be easy. Let me assure you that it's going to be nothing of the sort. There are ecommerce websites being created all the time, and most of them fail. Often because good ecommerce sites start with good design that is figured out through a collaborative process with companies like Cefar. And…
3 Silly Mistakes That Can Set Your Business Back

3 Silly Mistakes That Can Set Your Business Back

Contributed Post It’s the aim of every business owner to ensure their company keeps moving in the right direction. But, there are so many silly mistakes that can easily cause setbacks. Today, I’ve listed three of the most common silly mistakes and tips on how to avoid them: (Source: https://flic.kr/p/mst4eR) Failing Health & Safety Checks If you have business premises that are outside of your personal home address, then they need to pass health & safety checks. If they don’t, then your company can seriously get held back. Authorities come around and check offices and other business premises to ensure…
Onboarding A New Employee: Dos And Dont’s For A Fruitful Working Relationship

Onboarding A New Employee: Dos And Dont’s For A Fruitful Working Relationship

Contributed Post Image from Pixabay As a small business owner, you have likely dreamed of the necessity of hiring your first employee. It's the point at which your business is making inroads. You're not going to be one of the cruel statistics about start-ups; you are functioning and thriving. So much so, you can offer a new person a job, a living, a career. It's a huge goal to tick off and one that should be treasured. Even as you hire and more and more people, there is always a frisson of excitement that comes with it. You have made…
Satisfy Your Ears: Great Artists You’ve Never Heard Of

Satisfy Your Ears: Great Artists You’ve Never Heard Of

Contributed Post Music is one of the most powerful things on the planet. Nothing else, it seems, has the capacity to so strongly tug at our emotions, whether it’s happiness, joy, euphoria, misery, depression or sadness. What’s more, there’s so much of the stuff - so much, in fact, that most of us wander through life, listening to only a fraction of it. Pixabay The problem is that most of the music that we get has been curated by record labels and radio stations. We rarely get to hear the raw talent of unsigned artists, or those that radio producers…
Puddles Pity Party is the greatest show on Earth

Puddles Pity Party is the greatest show on Earth

Last night, I watched a gigantic clown chew gum and sing "Under Pressure" while forcing an audience member to eat pastries. It was the greatest. I'm talking about Puddles of Puddles Pity Party, and if you don't remember the name, you'll probably remember the sight of him from his viral collaboration with Postmodern Jukebox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBmCJEehYtU   Yeah, that guy. Toweringly tall, decked out in black and white garb, and projecting an air of detached sadness as he eases through a pop song with a disturbingly powerful voice. Based on stuff like this and his Sia cover with the same group…