Your career is important to you. You’ve worked for it, literally, and now you’re afraid all the years you put into it are at risk of ending because of an addiction disorder.

If you’ve just launched your mid-size business or you’re implementing changes and updates to your company’s website, you need solid SEO and digital marketing tactics. Just as importantly, make it a point to learn about cybersecurity. Have you considered what might happen if your site is hacked or compromised?

Media coverage is the most powerful form of marketing activity available, putting more potential clients in front of your business than anything else. But there’s a twist - although it should, being in the media might not work for every business owner or even happen, and there’s a good reason for this. Big hint – it’s not about the journalists or the state of the media.

Running a successful business as a solo entrepreneur requires a wide array of skills. However, it is impossible for one person to master every single aspect of a business. If your enterprise is in the early stages of development, it might not be reasonable for you to hire permanent employees to handle the various tasks you need to accomplish.

One of the things we encourage everyone to be doing from their website is to build an email list to send out email newsletters to. You can do this through offering a free resource for them to sign up for, or suggesting they subscribe to your blog so they don’t miss out on a fantastic post. You might run a challenge, course or event that they have to sign up to attend.

I didn’t have a PLAN B. Everyone was talking about their PLAN B’s and how in control it made them of the upcoming restructure. If their job was impacted, having a PLAN B made them feel able to cope with it; made them know they’d be able to smoothly move on to something else without falling apart.

Small business owners may be focused on lots of different tasks at their job, but one of the most important is projecting the financial health of the company. Sole proprietors and small business entrepreneurs need to understand how their company’s financial projections work so their venture will be more successful.

Businesses are all about making profits while staying ahead of competitors. Data analytics can help you do exactly that. It involves examining raw datasets aimed at drawing insights from the information contained. Using the right data analysis techniques allows you to uncover the raw data patterns and extract valuable insights from the datasets. Today we explain the key benefits of data analytics in business.

For business owners, the start of a new tax year can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you’ve made it through tax season and realized new opportunities; on the other hand, it brings new challenges to address unresolved issues from the previous year. The good news is, there are steps business owners can take to prepare their businesses for a great year.