So let’s take a look at five of the best design practices that will improve your conversion rates. Attention-Grabbing Your site must stand out and command the viewer’s attention. If your site is boring, then everyone will leave after they have been there a few seconds. There is so much content on the internet that you must go the extra mile to make sure that the overall design is spectacular, or your bounce rate will increase instead of your conversion rate....

As more small businesses shift to a cloud-based and paperless system, it’s natural to consider transacting online, as it will allow you to save money, time, and paper. And if you’re wondering what the actual benefits of signing documents online, don’t worry; we’ve got you covered: Saving Money It’s no secret that paper is expensive. Yes, a single sheet costs less than a penny, but when you’re printing out duplicates and triplicates of important documents every single day, those costs add up....

If you’re anything like me, a tech-obsessed, modern foodie, you seek an immersive experience with your food. You don’t just want to eat, you want to learn more about the great dishes you are eating, and document and share your food experience with the world, and maybe even try to recreate the magic at home. With that in mind, here are five foodie apps that are tailor-made to enhance your experience at Life is Beautiful....

Engage on Social Media Millennials likely won’t come to you, so you need to go to where they are, social media. The younger generation is constantly using these platforms (more than 70 percent of Millennials are daily social media users), mostly on their phones, so brands that have a strong social media presence can make a big impact. Begin by using social media and adding hashtags, creative questions, memes, or contests....

Taking on Too Much, Too Quickly Although it isn’t true 10 percent of the time, many startups are run by people relatively new to business. They are learning the ropes as they go along, dividing their time between educating themselves on one aspect or another and working on growing their company. While there is nothing inherently wrong with this, it can make maintaining focus on the core goals of the business more difficult....

The true value of content marketing lies in building a community of dedicated fans and customers around your brand. How do you build one? By creating an efficient content strategy, which clearly outlines how, what and why you publish certain pieces and the impact those bring for your company. Here’s a proven blueprint to make you strategy more intentional and effective. Document Everything There’s no need to write a lengthy whitepaper outlining each and every step you are planning to make....

Writing is not easy, but there are ways to facilitate the process. You do not need to produce the final text yourself – if you have the means to do it, just list the topics you want to develop and hire a professional to write the final texts for your site. Regardless of the way you do it, just do it in the best way possible. It may be hard to believe, but many bloggers are earning a decent income, and so can you if you apply these tips to your content production....

Unless you’re one of the few lucky souls who is a natural morning person, waking up is most likely a struggle and the urge to hit snooze is very strong. However, there is hope. Here are five tips to help start your day off on the right foot by optimizing your wake up routine. I’m not saying these tips will help you to naturally become a morning, but it might make the process of rolling out of bed slightly less painful....

If you are ready to know why, here are some productivity hacks used by many successful entrepreneurs to make their mornings more productive. 1. Work when others are asleep Sallie Krawcheck, former president of the Global Wealth & Investment Management division of Bank of America, works while everybody’s sleeping. Since there’s less distractions, mornings are the best time of day to focus on ourselves. Meditate, prepare a cup of tea, or kickstart the day with a hearty meal....

The Digital Attention Span At one point in time, with the emergence of a dial-up connection, it wasn’t uncommon to have to wait up to thirty minutes or more for a five-minute video to completely load up and play on your computer. Nowadays, with the widespread use of broadband and 4G for your phone and computer, such speeds are unheard of. In fact, if you’re waiting around for a ten or twenty-minute video to take longer than a minute or two to completely load up, it’s more likely now that you’ll lose interest and find something else to watch....

SEO and Marketing have fused together so much because SEO relies heavily on content, so many marketers consider themselves SEO specialists as well. In order to optimize a page, marketers must be able to read the page’s skeleton — which means reading HTML. In order to find, change, and edit meta descriptions, title tags, keywords, or headers, you need to be able to find them by looking at the “bones” of the website....

A recent infographic created by NeoName Studios and produced by Adecco looked at the various ways through which wearable technology is impacting our lives today, as well as how they can play a part in our futures. From things as simple as improving productivity and enabling better relationships with customers, to more complicated uses such as targeting cancer cells and solving problems in food insecurity, the infographic aims to highlight the different careers through which people can help to develop the wearable technology empowering these solutions....

We asked seven entrepreneurs what one thing you need to do or consider when you’re thinking about franchising your company. Take a look at what they had to say below: – Drew Gurley of Redbird Advisors – Nanxi Liu of Enplug – Marjorie Adams of Fourlane – David Ciccarelli of Voices.com – Mikhail Zabezhinsky of OceanTech – Richard Lorenzen of Fifth Avenue Brands

So what has changed? The benefits of using a cloud-computing database as a service now outweigh the drawbacks for many usage scenarios. Not only is the price-to-performance ratio of cloud software much better than a decade ago, but there’s also an incredible array of additional services and solutions now available via the cloud. Why Move Your Database to the Cloud? Here are a few advantages that have emerged recently for cloud databases:...

The purpose of this guide is to share tips that can help you overcome the mental obstacles that may be slowing you down at work. You’ve read our guides to the best productivity tools, but if you can’t overcome your psychological obstacles, there’s no way you will maximize your work. Here are some tips: Stop Blaming Distractions The first step is admitting that you are procrastinating. Entrepreneurs are often responsible for everything, so they end up overwhelmed with the amount of tasks due....

The boom of productivity-enhancing software like project management tools has improved the performance of all sorts of companies, but ensuring your staff are taking appropriate time off can be just as key to success. It’s also important to give staff the opportunity to fully disconnect from work while away from their desks — although a significant number admit to checking emails and messages while on annual leave. US Workers Are Always Working The workforce survey, which compiled answers from 1,000 random employees across the US submitted in mid-August, found that 42% of workers have not taken any time off in the last 12 months....

According to the report, which was comprised of internal research papers, slide decks, and spreadsheets, only one out of three new hires in 2021 stayed with the company for longer than 90 days, and former workers were twice as likely to leave by choice over being fired. The documents also show that rates of attrition were high throughout all tiers of the company — from entry-level workers through to executives and vice presidents....

The company’s only unionized warehouse, on Staten Island, has held an impromtu strike this week, while employees at a big distribution hub in Joliet, Illinois have staged a walkout. The Illinois Walkout The most recent worker action took place in Illinois’s third-largest city, 35 miles southwest of Chicago. A number of day-shift employees walked off the job on Tuesday, in a protest aimed at calling attention to their need for improved workplace safety rules and higher pay....

We’ve talked before about the gender pay gap and how it is a problem across many developing countries and most industries – especially tech fields (for example, female programmers get paid 30 percent less than their male counterparts). Obviously the gender pay gap is a real issue, and people get that, but when it comes down to it, many employees, both male and female, have little understanding of how pay is determined in their workplace....

Eighteen companies competed for a chance at the $10,000 grand prize. Entrepreneurs from each company presented their ideas for judges and NOEW attendees in a public showcase just off Fulton Street in New Orleans. 2016 Delta Challenge Entrepreneurial Fellows Billy’s Original Foods (MS) – a food company that produces ready-to-eat products in a diversified mix of retail and wholesale distribution. CoverSix (LA) – CoverSix educates and trains companies on how to deal with the threat of an active shooter....