Big Ideas for Small Businesses
Industry experts offer tips on using your software and managing every aspect of your business from sales and marketing to human resources and payment processing.
4 Factors to Attracting Qualified Employees
Attracting qualified employees can be difficult, especially with an expanding remote-work world.
Customer Loyalty Quiz: The Keys to Keeping Customers
Take our quiz to see if you have what it takes to keep customers coming back and becoming a referral source to grow your business.
How to Create an Effective Marketing Strategy for Your Small Business
Maximize your small business success with an effective marketing strategy. Start planning, execute consistently, and see results. Take action today!
5 Proven Strategies to Maximize Employee Performance
Are you getting the return you expect on each of the employees you hire or are many falling short of what you perceive is their potential?
5 Tips to Empower Employee Decision Making
In this blog post, learn 5 tips for empowering employees to develop their decision-making capabilities.
Keep Your Mind Ready for Great Ideas: Using the Getting Things Done Methodology
Do you feel busy but don’t feel you get anything done? Get organized and get control of tasks before they become overwhelming.
How to Reduce Employee Absences: Vital for SMBs During a Pandemic
Productivity losses from absenteeism cost U.S. employers $225.8 billion each year, or $1,685 per employee.
How to Host Engaging Meetings Online
There are several proven best practices that you can implement to host productive, inclusive virtual meetings.
5 Website Design Mistakes SMBs Must Correct in 2021
Your website is more important than your brick and mortar (if you have one) to establish your brand identity and market credibility, generating a steady flow of leads and...
Think Your Spreadsheets Are Ready for the Digital Economy?
While fax machines, spreadsheets, memos, emails, and back-of-envelope projections were plenty good enough to get you this far, they’re simply not up to the task in 2021 and...
8 Signs You’re Using the Wrong ERP
How do you know if you’re using the wrong ERP for your business? In this blog, ECI will Identify 8 signs that you may be using the wrong ERP.
What’s Your Management Style and Is it Right for Your Employees?
Here, we present the four basic management styles, which can apply to leaders at all levels of the organization. You may find that you are a combination of styles, or that...
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