For years, businesses have stored food inside pallets, with the relationship coming under scrutinity, such as a $5.3 million lawsuit by Starbucks involving wood pallets and mold. It’s thought that pallets provide circulation and drainage for fresh produce, leading to a better method of storage. While contamination is unlikely, it’s still wise to take precautions.…
Selling crafts is usually a home run business and this means that delivery is an integral part of sustainability. Whether you do hand painted stained glass, jewellery design, woodwork or soap maker, there are hundreds of people in the same situation and they need a safe and effective way of delivering goods. How do you…
For any business, their employees are an important asset. It makes sense to try to hang onto your best workers, and develop them to fill vacancies as your firm grows. This is because recruiting new staff is time-consuming, costly and disruptive. Using HR software to help you Making staff retention a key target for your…
Why Include a Cafeteria in the Workplace? If your business doesn’t include a food service area, you might question the value of having a cafeteria in the workplace. Why pay for the food, extra employees, and maintenance costs when your employees can simply leave the workplace for lunch? However, opening a cafeteria in your workplace…
Tell me if this sounds familiar: you spend hours thinking of contagious topics, you write the perfect headline and share your content on social media. And, then, you secretly hope that a sudden surge of new readers will flood your website. In reality, your content barely gets noticed, and your traffic line remains flat. Why?…
Building a small business from the ground and up is a fulfilling endeavor – and a profitable one, too. Getting there, however, is a tough act to pull off. Did you know? 8 out of 10 startups fail within the first 18 months – an 80% failure rate! And in an analysis of 101 startup…
Office technology has been developing rapidly since the days of the basic single-screen setup. As laptops and email became normal, the idea of everyone being in the same room began to feel outmoded. The modern office is a dynamic place that can span the globe, and the continual development and adoption of cloud computing has…
Most people are good, honest and strive to live their life with integrity and to do so we are using our values as guidelines. Your values are those things that are important to you, and they are determining and shaping your behavior, purpose and priorities. You have developed some of your values in childhood, some,…
According to independent research firm Common Sense Advisory (CSA), web users are four times more likely to purchase from a company that communicates in their own language. Reaching and communicating with multilingual customers via a localised website is vital if a company wants to invite trade or business on an international level. The ability to…
There are more than a few reasons as to why ecommerce SMBs work and often prosper. For one, people just love shopping online, especially as the technology advances and as their fears for their security and privacy subside. It also takes far less money to run an ecommerce store than a brick and mortar one,…
