by Lisa Canning | Sep 25, 2023 | Marketing
If you are in the music business—whether you run a music store, own an instrument repair shop, or perform—you are in business. And if you want yours to be a successful business, developing your brand identity is as important as doing what you do very well. A strong,...
by Lisa Canning | Sep 12, 2023 | Business Process
Managing payroll, benefits, and other employee compensation can be a headache, and if you get it wrong it can be a nightmare in terms of resources spent tracking sources of the problems, unraveling mistakes, and restoring disgruntled employees’ perceptions. Moreover,...
by Lisa Canning | Aug 21, 2023 | Sales
If customers were loyal to a particular brand or outlet before the pandemic, the government lockouts turned that on its ear. When they were forced to shop online, buyers found that pressing buttons on their laptops made it very, very easy to jump from one to the next...
by Lisa Canning | Aug 7, 2023 | Business Process
Remote work is here and it’s not going anywhere, and trends are emerging among companies that are successful in building collaborative work environments in a work-from-home world. Among the reasons why remote and hybrid work are the new normal was proved when the...
by Lisa Canning | Jul 31, 2023 | Business Process
If something can go wrong, Murphy’s Law warns, it will. While that may be an overly cynical worldview, there is no dispute that running a business is a risky endeavor, and there are layers upon layers of things that can go wrong. Identifying the most likely what-ifs...