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If you're an aspiring entrepreneur entering the competitive business world, it's likely you'll be faced with challenges and setbacks. Balancing your determination with a strong mindset is essential to achieving your entrepreneurial vision. Here, award-winning business coach Melitta Campbell offers BusinessBecause her advice on how entrepreneurs can develop a success mindset:  Entrepreneurs often spend a lot of time getting their business up and running, but miss the most important element: themselves.  It can be easy to forget the importance of working on yourself, yet this is what helps business leaders stand out, maintain the courage to speak out and be visible in the competitive business landscape.  In business, your mindset is everything. Look at any successful entrepreneur and they usually all have a positive, open, and creative mindset. So, if you want to move towards future success, here are seven ways to develop a strong mindset.  1. Learn from ...

Despite widespread inflation, inflation that creates opportunity is not for everyone. Tips for starting a business I read this morning, two and a half years after the first lockdown, that things would be back to normal. Some people believe that things that can change are no longer the same. They still have to work hard for a living. Before starting a business, it is critical to conduct market research. Discover your competitors and how your company can make your service or product stand out to customers. For your information, 35% of startups fail due to a lack of market needs, while 38% fail due to a lack of cash and an inability to obtain new capital. Without the internet's skill and knowledge, all you'd see on the screen is a touch of darkness. The ad campaign is influenced by the amount of money available to the company. A small business, or even a large business, cannot afford to pay for expensive marketing costs for promotion. Knowing when to move on is one of the ...

As co-founder & CEO of uno.ai, Shashank leads a team of world-class engineers building an expert security analyst—not a tool for one! The only way cybersecurity teams can effectively and efficiently thwart threats, understand unfolding attacks and piece together possible data leaks is through ruthless prioritization. You heard it right. It's about doing fewer things well and getting deeper into it. Without a thorough understanding, chances of success are minimal, if any. How do you know what's important? As a cybersecurity leader, you're constantly looking at emerging threats, possible evidence of compromise or attack and a growing number of vulnerabilities. You have alerts and notifications popping up at you from multiple systems. You're tired, fatigued and mostly in nonstop firefighting mode. The alerts and notifications get you as far as a summarized view of some isolated data or evidence of possible anomalous activity. That leads to more investigation...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Cybersecurity is a $60 billion industry, and it continues to grow year over year. Most companies are careful to take extreme precautions to keep their sensitive data, and that of their employees, protected. But when you combine the rise of remote work over the last decade with a global pandemic, it throws a real monkey wrench into an otherwise well-oiled machine. According to Statista, data breaches within the U.S. (where they also happen to be the most frequent and most expensive) cost an average of $8.6 million — enough to bring your business to a screeching halt. So, how do you keep your proprietary and private information safe? We'll find out, but first, why are remote companies much more susceptible to cybersecurity threats and breaches? + Unsecured Wi-Fi. When remote employees work from anywhere, they really do work from anywhere. That might mean a coworking space with secure Wi-Fi, but it might also mea...

A digital commerce expert and the co-founder at Kinex Media Inc, a creative digital agency in Toronto. Websites are undoubtedly the new storefronts. Today, people rely largely on digital platforms to do online shopping, and this trend has given a great boost to the e-commerce industry. Merchants and business owners strive to create a great online presence for their e-commerce business when it comes to attracting more and more buyers online. More often, they try to accomplish this by choosing an optimal web design for their web platform. A good e-commerce website design can be an effective strategy to skyrocket business sales. It can have a great impact on customers "walking" in and out of your online store. It is worth noting here that a good website is not just about aesthetics, but about its usability and accessibility too. From the smallest venture to the biggest enterprise, building an online website that is catchy and that offers a rich user experience can generat...

Online training came to the forefront because of the pandemic. Every corporate company these days is making the best use of technology to offer online training to their employees. Although online training has been in the limelight for the past ten to fifteen years, it became more prominent since the pandemic outbreak because organizations had no other option. The shift from offline training to online training is not easy as the engagement is not so great, tracking parameters changes, and organizations don’t have a proper idea about the ROI in online training. However, thanks to tools like learning management systems, many companies have succeeded in transitioning from offline training to online training.  Unfortunately, there are still a lot of businesses that are still figuring out how they can successfully offer online training programs. Of all the issues, tracking the progress is one of the most pressing ones. Before we discuss the parameters through which you ca...

In response to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, many SME businesses in the UK have now set out their hybrid working policies, enabling employees the freedom to choose where they work best either all the time or at least some of it. According to research, 71% of SMEs plan to implement hybrid working long-term, though many of those may not have considered the new challenges that may arise for finance professionals – especially when tracking expenses. Clear hybrid working policies and investment in technology to manage budgets will be needed. What’s changed with expenses tracking? Global manufacturer, Barco, recently revealed in its latest survey that a third of UK employees felt their company has not prioritised investments needed for better hybrid working. While there is ‘no one size fits all’ approach, it’s crucial to consider what has changed during the pandemic and if working models are changing, how businesses need to adapt to ensure finance professionals feel suppo...

Chris Evans, Entrepreneur, investor, author and co-founder of Traffic and Funnels Traffic and Funnels The day-to-day life of entrepreneurship never looks the same. As a business owner, you solve problems and navigate challenges everyday. In most cases, entrepreneurship can consume your personal life. This is a natural part of the process, especially at the beginning, but every entrepreneur needs to learn how to find a healthy balance. Whether your business is just getting off the ground, or you are already settled into the life of an entrepreneur, it’s important to set goals for your personal life and plan for your future. When things go awry or go really well, when business gets rough or when it accelerates, a strategic plan for your personal life will help you stay balanced. Entrepreneur, investor, author and cofounder of Traffic and Funnels Chris Evans is passionate about coaching entrepreneurs on wealth management, and how to balance personal life. He believes that plann...

Machine learning, one of the driving components of artificial intelligence, has emerged as a leading factor in digital business transformation. As enterprises seek to harness the oceans of data and processes generated in this digitization shift, AI and machine learning have become valuable tools that allow companies to leverage that data to make insights and predictions that lead to calculated decision making.  As the adoption of AI in enterprises continues to grow, organizations have begun to see the value in establishing data science and analytics teams to elevate and expand the use of machine learning throughout the enterprise.  What is Machine Learning? A foundational factor in AI, machine learning is a type of data analysis that uses algorithms to identify patterns that allow systems and software to learn and predict outcomes without any programming.  Also, known as predictive analytics, machine learning is at work every time we scroll through recommendations...

In August 2019, 181 corporate executives of the Business Roundtable made headlines by redefining a corporation’s purpose, extending it beyond maximizing shareholder value to include a “fundamental commitment to all stakeholders” inclusive of employees, customers, and communities. Both criticism and applause followed the announcement. Then 2020 brought a global pandemic, rampant wildfires, a collective reckoning with systemic racism, and a corresponding economic crisis—events that disrupted business and society in unprecedented and interconnected ways. What it means for companies to commit to all stakeholders is being put to the test like never before. While businesses have a lot more to do to fully embrace the ideals of the Business Roundtable’s ambitions, they are increasingly opting to invest capital for social impact as one way to “walk the talk.” Over the last 12 months, several companies have launched investment strategies to advance social-and-environmental causes alongside st...

For business leaders this means staff development, training and coaching could be even more challenging, and even less effective, unless they act now. Here’s a look at where businesses are going wrong with professional training, how technology presents new opportunities, and what’s at stake if we don’t give people the support they need to fulfill their potential.  The way humans learn (and forget) hasn’t changed Businesses are investing billions into employee training that is often forgotten. This loss of learned information is explained by the ‘Forgetting Curve‘ theory developed by 19th century psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus. People lose an average of 50 percent of the information presented to them within an hour, and about 70 percent within 24 hours.  It’s also important to realize that effective training in business isn’t just about remembering things – it’s about using that information to drive new behaviors, which in turn, boosts productivity.  There are a few co...