3 Good Reasons Why It’s Smart To Update Your Website

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Do you update your website regularly? If not, you could lose out on business because your prices or product offerings are outdated. Let me tell you a story to illustrate the risk you take in letting things slide on your site for too long.

My husband and I recently listened to the audiobook, “The Startup of You” by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha. My husband was interested in this book because it offers advice on how to accelerate your career by managing it as if it were a start-up business.

Since Reid Hoffman is LinkedIn’s co-founder, it came as no surprise to me that the book offered strategies on how to use LinkedIn to build your network for career advancement. The authors mentioned that more resources could be found on the Startup of You website, so once I finished the book, I made a beeline for the site to see what else I could learn.

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How Small Businesses Can Prevent & Recover from Data Loss

data lossBy Lucy Reed

Your data is what allows you to succeed as a business. However, if you’re like a lot of small business owners, you’re not taking the right steps to protect against data loss. According to Small Business Trends, 58 percent of small businesses are ill-prepared for data loss.

5 Reasons Your Business Could Lose Data

You might think data loss is something only big businesses need to worry about. After all, who would target your small business with a cyberattack? Not only are small businesses targeted by cyber attacks at an alarming frequency (according to USA Today, 61 percent of breaches in 2016 hit small businesses), but there are other ways your business could suffer a data loss:

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8 Common Writing Errors that You Need to Avoid [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Written communication skills are highly underestimated as a powerful tool within business in a whole host of industries and business sectors. This is especially true in today’s booming digital world and with digital communication becoming much quicker and terminology becoming shorter. No matter how professional you or your business comes across in person, you can also come across as unprofessional (and lazy) if yourself or anyone in your business is making any of these common writing errors, which are listed in the infographic below.

It’s vital for new business owners, entrepreneurs and start-up companies to get the smaller details right at the start, since it can make a world of difference when it comes to your company reputation and growing success. From big presentations, important business documents and your company branding to your social media, website content and employee communications, it really is important to pay attention to the little details.

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