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What is IT Service Management and Why Does Your Business Need It?
Your business probably uses a ton of technology to run your daily operations, from laptops and computers to software programs and accessories. But is all of that tech making you more productive or just confusing your team? Managing all of that tech effectively takes a...
Small Businesses in Wilmington, NC Prepare for Worst of Hurricane Florence
Hurricane Florence is slogging its way toward the North and South Carolina coastline. But in one community smack in the middle of the cone of uncertainty, small restaurant owners are telling Flo to kiss their grits … or fondue. As it sits now just off the coast of...
6 Steps to Create a Culture Shift That Sticks
Why should organizational culture be important to you? If you don’t have an immediate answer, it probably means this topic doesn’t receive much attention from your executive team. You may even think of culture as one of those “soft” aspects of business that doesn’t...
Apply These 20 Local Marketing Strategies To Improve Your Small Business Revenue
An enormous 85% of business owners depend on word-of-mouth referrals, showing just how crucial it is to reach customers in your local area. Local marketing strategies are slightly different to the techniques and methods you’ll use for general marketing, as you’re...
Best 10 Digital Marketing Tools for Small Business Owners
With everyone and everything going digital, it is more important than ever that small businesses have an effective digital marketing strategy in place to ensure they remain competitive in an increasingly digital world. Fortunately, there is a whole host of tools to...
Giving Back – A Pawn USA
We're big about giving back here at Data Age/PawnMaster; we hold charity drives on an almost monthly basis, and blood donations every eight weeks. It's important to us to be seen as part of our community, and we love being able to give back in any way we can. When we...
The Power of Eye Contact
Sharing close rapport with someone is the basis of positive social connection. As that rapport grows, you begin to mirror the neural activity in each other’s emotional areas of the brain. You become in sync, like two pianos playing the same song. One way to build...
10 Facebook Ad Best Practices for Small Businesses
Facebook has more than 2.2 billion monthly active users, making it a great place for businesses to reach consumers. Your business probably already has a Facebook page, but changes to the platform’s algorithm over the past few years has made it increasingly difficult...
8 Amazing Early Morning Habits of Successful People Small Business Owners Should Try
Every entrepreneur has a secret or key to his or her success but what are the morning habits of entrepreneurs who are successful? One of those secrets is that most entrepreneurs don’t simply wake up and go to work like most 9-to-5 employees.
The A-Z of VoIP Phone Systems and How They can Transform Your Business
‘VoIP’ has become a buzzword when talking about business telephones of late. But VoIP is more than just a funny sounding acronym; it represents a huge step forward in business telephone communications. This article will help you learn more about the many choices when...
10 Ecommerce Best Practices for Small Business
Recent numbers from Statista report there will be over 2 billion digital shoppers by 2021, that’s up from 1.66 billion in 2016. With those numbers, you’ll want to be sure to understand these ecommerce best practices.
5 Strategies for Enjoying Your Workday
Self-care seems like a sacred word reserved for activities you do in the privacy of your home—things like yoga, long baths and quiet, meditative evenings. It’s a very deliberate form of care, a ritual we exercise full control over. But away from home, at places like...
Workers Compensation: What You Need to Know
I've been in insurance for a long time, and have seen a good number of business owners and their employees sustain injuries—many very minor, some permanently life-altering, and a few unfortunately resulting in death. Most of these injuries could have been prevented,...
5 Most Common Ways Small Business Can Use Funding from Kabbage
Online lending continues to make a big impact on small business growth. A recent study conducted by NDP Analytics found that every $1 borrowed by small businesses produces $3.79 of gross output in local communities. It sums up to nearly $40 billion in economic growth...
4-5-4 CALENDAR
AN EXPLANATION OF THE 53-WEEK YEAR Dividing the retail calendar into 52 weeks of seven days each, or 364 days, leaves an extra day each year to be accounted for. As a result, every five to six years a week is added to the fiscal calendar. This anomaly has most...
When Dealing with Insurance, Don’t Come Up Short
The pawn industry is alive and well, full of bright and forward thinking professionals as well as seasoned veterans who have seen it all, or at least know someone who has. Even with that much collective experience, the unexpected can and does happen. For nearly three...
The Next 10 Things You Should Do to Simplify Your Life as a Small Business Owner
Small business owners often find themselves pulled in several different directions at once to keep their companies working. They might even be expected to cover the responsibilities of boss and active employee at the same time. Steve Martin, CMO of DaySmart, spoke...
Best Social Media Experts Share Productivity Tips for Your Small Business
Social media marketing is hard. It takes a ton of time and effort! Each day, marketers try to stay on top of their marketing game while majorly multitasking. So how can you regain control of your schedule? Social Media Productivity Tips I asked 9 social media unicorn...