The greatest enemy of growth is not decline: it’s stagnation. A business that does not find new ways to earn revenue opens itself to increased competition in its primary niche with no opportunities to make up the difference. Extending business services allows companies to diversify their income while increasing their flexibility. As 2020 showed, inflexible […]
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The 5 Best Payroll Services for Small Businesses
February 18, 2017 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Did you know that 1 in every 3 small business owners gets penalized by the IRS for payroll errors? Those fees and fines add up. When you add on the extra time and energy of figuring out the complicated payroll system, […]
How To Sell Products And Services During Difficult Times
By Matt Doyle, VP and Co-Founder of Excel Builders, a truly unique custom home builder, creating homes that make every day easier. Selling products and services is challenging at the best of times, but it’s even harder when there’s an economic recession, pandemic, or any other national or global hardship occurring. This is a difficult issue […]
4 Ways to Stop Attracting People Who Can’t Afford Your Services
December 7, 2020 7 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. There’s nothing worse for an entrepreneur than putting all your efforts into building a service, and a marketing strategy, only to continuously attract people who say they can’t afford them. While many business owners focus their attention on making sure they […]
IBM and Cognizant acquisitions cap a wave of IT services deals in 2020
With dual acquisitions from IBM and Cognizant announced today, there have now been well over 100 such deals this year involving IT services providers. IBM is acquiring Nordcloud, a provider of cloud computing services expertise, while Cognizant is acquiring Inawisdom, a privately held IT services provider that specializes in AI and data analytics. IBM’s acquisition of […]
3 Lessons Amazon’s Digital Transformation Can Teach Accounting and Financial Services Firms
December 8, 2020 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In the past few months, the world has had to drastically adopt new ways of doing business thanks to the global health crisis. While many companies have now grown accustomed to working with tools like Zoom and cloud-based collaboration platforms, there […]
Amazon launches new AI services for DevOps and business intelligence applications
When it comes to customer expectations, the pandemic has changed everything Learn how to accelerate customer service, optimize costs, and improve self-service in a digital-first world. Register here Amazon today launched SageMaker Data Wrangler, a new AWS service designed to speed up data prep for machine learning and AI applications. Alongside it, the company took […]
Getting Into The Google Guarantee Program With Local Services Ads
Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin By David Hunter, CEO of Epic Web Studios and ASAPmaps in Erie, PA. He also co-founded dbaPlatform, a local SEO software. getty What does being trusted mean to you? The Google Guarantee program was built on the principle that it means a lot — in fact, a 2019 […]
Here’s How You Can Charge $500,000 for Your Services
October 14, 2020 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Have you ever wondered how to charge $ 50,000, $ 250,000, $ 500,000, or more for a professional service or product? How do you influence and persuade someone in 1-2 conversations instead of 9-27 points of contact? What kind of scripts […]
5 Ways to Differentiate Your Products and Services in an Oversaturated Market
October 3, 2020 4 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Type your product or service into a search engine and you may get millions of results. The truth is, the market is oversaturated in some areas, such as finance, wellness and digital retail. In these spaces, standing out is tough. Whether through lower […]
How Law Firms and Professional Services Have Adapted to Survive Covid-19
September 21, 2020 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Corporate law firms have ridden out the Covid-19 shutdown relatively well so far. For every area of law that’s seen a fall in demand — such as litigation and financial accounting cases — it seems like others have presented new opportunities. Law firm […]