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Devan Perine has a wide span of marketing experience working with small businesses from the creative arts, business consulting, and software & recruiting industries. She’s a graduate in Media Management, focus in Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management, and a news & Apple maven. In her free time you'll find her on a drumset or playing on the piano. She also thinks she’s a pretty darn good cook. Connect with her on Google+, Twitterand LinkedIn.
Sales is a top challenge and worry for small business owners. We know that. You know that. So we’ve compiled our best sales posts on EnMast to help you get the help you need. How to master ‘the ask’ on a sales call You met with a prospect, made your pitch and learned about the
“Keeping Gen Y employees is like trying to nail jelly to the wall.” Well, you’re wrong. Very wrong. So why do your Gen Y employees keep leaving? We don’t put up with being in crappy jobs. Gen Xers and Boomers have more of the mentality that even though the job sucks, you work through it. You
2013 is looking pretty good-and-dandy for business. 15% more businesses plan to hire this year compared to 2012. That’s good. 70% expect performance to grow this year. That’s also good. And small business wage growth is beating out mid- and large businesses. I say that’s pretty awesome. But employee retention continues to worry small, mid
Are you the first one in the office and the last one to leave? Do your employees wait for the hand on the clock to hit 5 and they are already gone by 5:01? You, on the other hand, don’t leave the office until 7 and you’re up until midnight answering emails from earlier in
Everyone has favorite clients. You enjoy the work you do with them, they have reasonable deadlines, budgets and projects, and they’re just really fun and awesome to work with. They rock. Then there are the other ones… You know… the select clients that drive you a little bit crazy… errr… umm… “keep you on your
I work for multiple companies, so my “office” is all over the place. I work at an office downtown, one on the northwest side of Chicago, my home office (dinner table and bed), my neighborhood Starbucks, and the list goes on… I work all over the place. I’ve made some investments in my office and
I’m excited about the new year. Some economists say 2013 will be great for business, technology is doing some cool things too and let’s not forget that we were spared from the fiscal cliff. So for the first time in a few years, we’re starting off on a positive note (relatively speaking). Plan for great things
Are your employees sluggish? Productivity down? Maybe the problem is your managers, or maybe… YOU. We’ve all had bad bosses and know how it makes us feel as employees. But if your employees are experiencing poor leadership/management, it doesn’t just suck for them, it’s bad for your business. Inc.com published a great article on the
I attended the Chicago Vistage All-City recently, where hundreds of Vistage business owners got together for an all-day conference of workshops and networking. Dave Hibbard was one of the keynote speakers and opened up his talk with a really interesting study that his company, Dialexis, conducted on corporations around the U.S over the last 15 years. They
I think Thanksgiving is one of the most overlooked holidays. Over the past few years, November 1st has marked the beginning of the Christmas season. Walmart’s aisles have Christmas items loaded up on the shelves, the local radio station starts playing Christmas music, and every freaking commercial has sleigh bells playing the background. …what happened
I’m a big fan of infographics and found a great new one the other day from the folks at Vertical Response. We’ve noticed the stats steadily increasing over the past couple years showing that more small businesses are building presence on social media through online marketing efforts, and this one shows that they’re using it
I had a big data scare a few months ago. My computer HD was failing and I needed to get a new one. I backed up all my data on an external before getting the HD replaced the night before I took it in to the Genius Bar at Apple — but it had been
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