Position Your Company to Be Better Than Your Competitors
When a potential client looks at your business, you must have a differential advantage if you want to dramatically increase your odds of earning that sale.
Six Process Pitfalls That Could Be Hurting Your Business
Time and time again, there’s one critical component that hampers a business’s productivity and efficiency: People are wired to work within organizational silos.
What are some of the specific pitfalls that inefficient or siloed business...
Her Love for History and Being a Tour Guide Resulted in a Booming Business
Bailey Sisoy Isgro has done a bit of everything in her life: Worked the clay for a major automaker, helped out a friend who needed an impromptu tour of Detroit, jumped behind the bar...
Working During College? It’s Great Prep for the Business World, Expert Says
Each year, parents send their sons and daughters off to college with high hopes that in four years – give or take – they will earn a degree and embark on successful careers.
But while...
New School Store Gains Support from Grand Rapids Business Partner
There’s an old adage about giving a man a fish and teaching him to fish. That wisdom can be applied across the board to the kind of education students at Grand Rapids Public School’s...
Take the Time to Properly Sell Your Business – and Win the Rewards
You’ve spent years planning, building and running your business, and now it’s time to reap your rewards one ultimate time and sell it.
How to Avoid Building the Sales Wall
The imaginary wall between you and your customer; the one that prevents you from getting a sale, can be the biggest, most impenetrable, and toughest you’ll ever face.
Use Technology To Help Spark Collaboration In The Workplace
Most businesses recognize that employee collaboration is a must for a productive and efficient workplace. But many companies aren’t set up properly to take the greatest advantage of one of their best tools for promoting...
Bank of America and Habitat for Humanity Team Up for Building Blitz
Giving people the services they need to protect their finances is definitely a good thing. Volunteering your time as an organization and as individuals to give people the homes they need to be productive...
Escape Room Devotee Goes All in to Open Her Own Business
Some might see game night as a fun family activity or something to do with friends on a casual basis. For Jennifer Bismack, playing games became a serious business.
Bismack, 34, founded her new company...
Metro Detroit Co-Working Space Set to Double in Size in 2017
Co-working spaces, defined as a flexible work space that makes having an office more affordable for entrepreneurs, new companies and creatives at all stages of their business growth, are getting bigger and better around...
Ford’s Hometown Has a New Model A: Artspace
Dearborn is positioning itself as a destination for art. Can this company town pull it off?
e-Commerce Optimization: What to Include on Your Website
Can a smaller retailer compete against the big players online? Here's how to maximise your visibility -- however large or small you are.
Embrace Change and See Your Company Grow
Once we can get past the fact that everything is in a constant flux of change, we can begin our journey to tomorrow.
Make Your Business Goals Work
Goals are there to move you forward and push you and your team to achieve things you might not have thought possible.
Lear Corporation Opens Its New Innovation Center in Downtown Detroit
Some might look at the newly opened Lear Corp. Innovation Center in Detroit as one building, one renovation, one small space where an automotive supplier set up shop.
For CEO and President Matt Simoncini, the...
How To Know You’re Getting The Most Out Of Social Media Marketing
Businesses, professionals and others who use sociall media to promote a brand often are unsure whether what they’re doing is effective.
Their usual ways of measuring success – such as how many leads or sales...
Mahindra Invests in Detroit, Urban Agriculture with Second Round of Grants
Mahindra North America invests in urban farming programs and a key employee service project -- expanding its impact on growing healthy communities, clients and employees.
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