How Learning to ‘Manage Sideways’ Can Totally Transform Your Career | Entrepreneur

As a manager, members of your team expect and even crave, your feedback. Similarly, senior managers (or least those who are any good at their jobs) welcome feedback from junior professionals.

But providing feedback laterally is a challenging workplace problem. Startup founders, entrepreneurs and other professionals often mistakenly assume that candor and cordial relationships with colleagues are diametrically opposed. In reality, the only way you can maintain a healthy relationship with the colleagues you rely on is to learn the art of “managing sideways.”

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Business Sustainability Tips for Small Entrepreneurs | Getentrepreneurial.com

Business is no longer just about profit generation or plain long-term sustenance. Nowadays, many enterprises, including the small and medium scale ones, genuinely express their concern for the environment and society at large and consequently create sustainability projects. Consumers more likely patronize environmentally- and socially-conscious companies. Increased patronage translates to increased sales.

Yet the capacity to craft sustainability strategy is as relevant as the capacity to maintain it. While the intention is noble, small entrepreneurs are sometimes forced to discard the proposed or the initially launched business sustainability projects because of budget constraints or project mismanagement. But this should not be the case. There are many ways to maintain and even improve the sustainable projects over the long run.

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How to Talk to Strangers When You Feel Crippled With Social Anxiety | Life Hack

Imagine being able to talk to strangers without the shakes, or being able to walk into a party cooler, calmer and more collected instead of a sweaty bundle of nerves…

Does that sound like a dream come true?

This article offers some key tips for easing the anxiety that comes with talking to strangers in a social setting. Tips on how to talk to strangers that will leave you feeling more calm and less crippled.

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The Art of Raising Your Fees | marketingforhippies.com

Money.

Abstractly it seems like a good thing to have.

But talk to most conscious entrepreneur types about doing one of the central things that will open the door to more of it appearing in their lives?

Stunned silence and utter emotional shut down.

Money is fraught for everyone in this culture. We’ve all done things with money we regret. We’ve all had people use money against us in ways that didn’t feel good but… add a social, political and spiritual analysis to this?

My oh my.

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6 Startups That Are Helping to Save the Oceans While Still Making Money | Entrepeneur

oceanBrands around the world are increasingly embracing sustainability — and not just for reputation management as it was in the past. A McKinsey survey revealed how many companies are applying sustainability principles to improve their operations and boost productivity and growth.

Most of these companies contribute to sustainability efforts by cutting energy consumption, developing green products and educating their employees. But a few choose sustainability as the basis for their existence right from the start. Below are seven ways in which startups are making money even as they save the oceans.

Americans are splurging on personal loans thanks to fintech startups | Quartz

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Ten years on from the credit crisis, Americans are again piling on debtin all its varieties, from credit cards to student loans to mortgages. These days, personal loans—a category turbocharged by fintech upstarts—are growing especially quickly. With an increasing number of shaky borrowers taking on this debt, the risks are growing for lenders during the next economic downturn.

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13 Ways to Engage With Customers on Social Media | AllBusiness.com

With more than 2 billion users worldwide, social media can provide your company with a ripe opportunity to engage with customers and showcase your brand. Creating a strong social media following can also help you become the preferred brand with your customers, and significantly improve customer loyalty and reach.

To assist you with your social media efforts, we asked 13 entrepreneurs from YEC the following question:

Q. What is the best way to use social media to engage your customers and clients to improve brand loyalty and reach?

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Cash wrap counter to die for. It’s massive! | IKEA Hackers

We used IKEA components to build a massive cash wrap counter for our petstore.

Materials:

3 x KALLAX 4×2 shelving units (Art no: 202.758.85)

2 x KALLAX shelving units (Art no: 202.946.19)

1 x KALLAX 5×5 shelving unit (Art no. 703.015.42)

Frames to cover the back of the 2×4 KALLAX units

4″ ABS pipes

Laminate top

We used 2 of the KALLAX (4 square x 2 square shelves), on their sides. Then a 2×4 frame was attached to the back of them.

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Why labour is becoming more expensive for your business? | The Startup Magazine

Take one look at the economic climate and you’ll note that the price of labor appears to be rising. This is making it harder for businesses to keep costs down, offer products and services at an attractive price and make a profit.

In fact, some businesses are struggling to stay afloat due to the ever increasing cost of labor.

What you may be surprised to learn is that labor costs in Australia have actually grown at twice the pace of other OECD countries.

Yet the rate of unemployment in Australia is still growing potentially leaving you to wonder how the cost of labor is continuing to increase.

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