Did you know? There are organisations in the world that operate solely on the telecommuting philosophy. This means that these organisations operate solely on the back of telecommuting employees. In other words, their human resource programme revolves around their telecommuting programme. It can be said that these types of organisations are going to be the organisations of the future, especially if you consider the manner in which technology and society are progressing hand in hand. In fact, we ... Keep Reading
Dangerous Small Business Financial Mistakes to Be Careful Of
Why do some entrepreneurs succeed while others do not? As per Michael Gerber, an entrepreneur is an amalgamation of three roles or characters. The first is the technician i.e. someone with the requisite skills and expertise, the second is the visionary i.e. the person with the grand vision, and the third is the manager i.e. an individual who can manage the available resources efficiently and productively. People approach the concept of entrepreneurship in two ways. Some are hereditary business ... Keep Reading
Have These Common Customer Care Mistakes Crept Into Your Business Operations?
If your business has direct customer dealing, the customer service is easily one of the most important aspects of your operations, right? It is a foregone conclusion in theory but in practice, it is dramatically absent in the case of most small to medium scale businesses. We don’t mean customer service per se. We, obviously, mean good service without any or minimal customer care mistakes. Imagine this. You have a well-funded business that has a gorgeous and highly effective product aimed at a ... Keep Reading
Sensing a Toxic Workplace: There Are Clear Signs
Usually, it is employees who complain about having to work in a toxic workplace. You will rarely find a business owner with such gripes. There are two reasons for this. The first is that if a business owner finds that his offices have toxic environments, then he can directly make changes to take that toxicity out of the picture. The other and more common reason is that business owners rarely ever realise that their offices have become toxic. This happens because it is very unlikely for a ... Keep Reading
What’s On Your Stop Doing List?
It is very rare for a business to fold overnight. Typically, the death of a business is a protracted affair. A single wrong decision never results in the collapse of a business. Instead, it is the same mistake being made again and again that causes a business to fade away. In the majority of cases, these repeat mistakes fall on the head of the entrepreneur or the business owner. Entrepreneurs don’t only have to worry about the financial survival of their business but also the financial survival ... Keep Reading
How Do You Overcome Business Obstacles?
At Office Hacks by Inkjet Wholesale, we’ve focused on a lot of business or start-up related subjects. We’ve written on everything from business plans and recruitment to marketing and office efficiency. In all these months of writing, one subject that we’ve never focused on till now is the mentality of a business owner. We haven’t really delved into this side of entrepreneurship because we assumed it to be fairly mundane and basic. We figured that none of our readers would want to focus on ... Keep Reading
Basic Marketing Strategies That Your Business Should Consider Seriously
It is a certifiable fact that every entrepreneur has ideas on how he will push his services and products out to potential customers. It is also a certifiable fact that every entrepreneur has that annoying tendency of overcomplicating things. In fact, it’s a general tendency in people to rate complicated concepts above simpler ones. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in marketing. Entrepreneurs will cook up complicated marketing strategies simply because they want to rake in applause for their ... Keep Reading
Have You Considered Social Recruiting?
If you're like the majority of businesses, it’s highly unlikely that you have… yet. In fact, if you have great ambitions for your business, it is highly likely that, sooner or later, you're going to have to. While the days of recruitment agencies and paid classifieds haven’t really gone by, they will soon follow the path of Yellow Pages, Orkut, Hotmail, and to an extent even Snail Mail. Social media recruiting is the wave of the future and it is high time you tried surfing it. Social media ... Keep Reading
Top Tips to Ensure Successful Collaboration amongst Your Employees
Two plus two equal four, right? Well, they mostly do. When they don’t, though, then you have something special to write home about. Empires are built on these types of flawed mathematical equations. While you could be an exceptional genius who has managed to invent something special and has become a household name on the back of his invention, human beings with average IQs have also managed to build empires in the history of mankind. How do they do it? They do it by fostering and promoting ... Keep Reading
Top Tips to Manage Genius Employees
Nothing can be better, can it? Having genius employees chugging away at what they do best while your company rises to the top of the pile of all its competitors. This is like a dream come true for all employers, across the world – being able to afford brilliant employees. It’s obvious why. Geniuses are so good at what they do that they aren’t only more productive than everybody else but also inspire everyone to be better than what they’re used to. The only problem is managing those outstanding ... Keep Reading