13 Signs That You Should Walk Away From Your Startup Business
You’re Feeling Regret It is understood that entrepreneurship is inherently risky, and as the old adage goes, “A good business person knows when to fold.” That being said, from experience, feelings of...
View ArticleLacking Experience For Your Dream Job? Address Skill Gaps In The Interview
Treat The Interview Like A Sales Meeting A job interview in its most basic form is a sales meeting. Your job as an applicant is to convince the buyer (that is, the employer) that you are the right...
View Article13 Tips For Overcoming Your Entrepreneurial Anxiety
Keep Coming Back To Your ‘Why’ Being an entrepreneur is not easy and can be very stressful. To keep those burdensome factors from influencing progress, one has to remember the “why.” Why did I start...
View Article15 Ways To Stay Relevant And Find Success As A Salesperson
Be A Trusted Partner In spite of the many changes in technology and business culture, the main ingredient for a successful salesperson hasn’t changed; only the tools have changed. Sales have always...
View ArticleHow to Manage with Servant Leadership
Servant Leaders Develop New Leaders, Not Followers Kamyar Shah, Remote COO, thinks that the primary benefit derived from servant leadership is its ability to nurture fledgling leaders on the team....
View Article12 Mistakes That Can Destroy Your Personal Brand
Lack Of Consistency In Your Brand Voice One of the main pillars of branding is consistency, both in tone and subject matter. It is also one of the rather common issues that hinder or damage a brand....
View ArticleHow To Decide If An Open Floor Plan Is Right For Your Business
Study The Data And Experiment Much like most decisions in business, the physical layout of an office should not be subjective. It should be based on historical industry data and available case studies...
View Article12 Tips For Managing Coworker Relationships After You’ve Been Promoted
Be A Servant Leader The assumption that the nature of the relationships among coworkers inherently changes after a promotion is an outdated notion. The personal and professional relationships both...
View ArticleAre Incentives A Good Employee Motivator? 15 Coaching Experts Weigh In
Rewarding Human Nature Is Essential Most rational actors have a positive reaction to incentives. Choosing to address a natural need for recognition via any method of reward or incentive is inherently...
View ArticlePop Quiz, Monday with Kamyar Shah
Can you please tell everyone your name? Kamyar Shah What is your job role? Remote COO & Remote CMO Tell us about your company? World Consulting Group is a premier management consulting firm. What...
View Article10 Ways Modern Companies Are Tracking Down Sales Leads
Ask For Customer Referrals In my experience, the most successful methodology in high-ticket management consulting is a combination of word-of-mouth and LinkedIn. I have experimented with many...
View Article11 Tips For Welcoming Generation-Z To The Workforce
Don’t Fall Victim To The ‘Complexity’ Mindset The notion that each generation requires its own “model” in order to be effective, efficient and productive is simply a myth. It is a sign of “unnecessary...
View ArticleHow to Build an Email List: 75 Experts Share Their Secrets
Kamyar Shah Small business advisor helping you increase profitability and productivity, offering remote CMO and remote COO services Home Giveaways – “This one is THE most effective way of building a...
View ArticleDoes Hard Work Pay off in the End?
Remote COO Without defining “hard work”, it is difficult to answer the question of its impact. Is the quantity of hours and an indicator of hard work? Does ROI reflect hard work? Here are two ways to...
View ArticleOverhauling Your Business Model? 15 Steps You Should Take To Begin The Process
Look At Your Historical Data Deciding if a particular model is working or is effective is not a matter of perspective, it is a matter of data. A company that has been in existence should have access...
View Article13 Signs Your Workplace Is Toxic Enough To Warrant Quitting
There Are Rational, Not Just Emotional, Reasons To Leave The first step in making such a determination is to establish your personal criteria. Evaluate based on how it makes you feel versus the...
View Article12 Ways To Get Out Of Your Head And Combat Entrepreneurial Loneliness
Change Up Your Routine It is no secret that daily routines are detrimental to long-term productivity. That being said, combating this particular issue is not complex: allow for change within the...
View Article13 Coaching Professionals Explain How To Ask For And Negotiate A Raise
Present The Theoretical ROI Among many other ways, I have seen work is to show your impact by calculating a theoretical ROI. Since most employees don’t have access to employer financial data, it may...
View ArticleHere’s How To Take Business Risks Responsibly, According To 12 Professional...
Start Small To Achieve Proof Of Concept Innovation, and even scaling a business, is inherently a risky proposition. One of the most time-tested ways of managing the risk is to start on a small scale...
View Article14 Major Considerations For Leaders Planning An Employee Retreat
Get Your Team’s Input Balancing corporate outings is not difficult if the basics of the end goal are the starting point: teamwork. Considering that the most likely goal of such an endeavor is to...
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