The holiday season is notorious for hurting productivity levels in most small businesses. Self-reported surveys note over 60 percent of employees admit to being less productive over the holidays. It’s after all the festive season. Employees are naturally distracted by...
Let’s consider the financial crises small businesses have faced in the past century or so. There have been the two world wars, of course, a major economic depression, a major recession in 2008, Brexit, and events like the dot-com crash of the nineties. Economists...
It may seem like a neat hack or a shortcut to instant traffic, but buying Facebook fans is mostly a waste of money. Small businesses are often under pressure to show a large number of followers on social media sites. This was a common enough strategy that many brands...
The Nobel Committee awarded the memorial prize in economics this year to Richard Thaler, a prominent economist from the University of Chicago. The winner’s choice this year was interesting, especially because Thaler’s area of research contains a treasure trove of...
Some designers complain that all website look too neat and clean and has no style appeal for customers. Businesses tend to use clean, clutter-free and stylistically boring web designs to attract customers. A new study has confirmed once more that web users do prefer...