BoomNation recently announced a $5 million seed round led by Callais Capital. BoomNation is a new mobile app community connecting tradespeople with...
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Handling Your Company's Resident Slacker
It’s a rare workplace team that doesn’t have a resident slacker — that certain employee who always seems to shirk his or...
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Be Transparent With Employees About Their Compensation
When I graduated from college, I took a job as an entry-level employee at a printing production facility. I worked hard, climbed the shop...
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Getting Comfortable with Candor
In the business world, it’s so much easier for managers to gloss over employees’ weaknesses or for employees to give some manager’s...
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Staying Safe When the Job Site Puts You on the Roadside
The threat of injury is always present in a roadway work zone. As common as these sites are, providing the crew and...
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Finding a New Way to Teach Your Staff
Your employees and customers come to you for solutions all day long. Wouldn’t it be nice if someone could hand us similar...
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Eliminate Negativity From Your Workplace Culture
“Culture” is a term that may seem nebulous or vague, but in reality, it can have a tangible impact on your business’...
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3 Major Marketing Mistakes to Avoid
It’s still early in 2022 and, if you’re like many of us, you’re thinking about what you need to change and how...
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New App Aims to Connect Skilled Workers with Employers
A new app is helping businesses find the skilled workers they need in this often challenging and competitive labor market.
BoomNation is an...
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How to Announce a Price Increase to Customers
Many businesses boast about their low prices, or their efforts to make their services as affordable as possible. In some situations, though,...
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Mastering Difficult Workplace Conversations Will Dampen Conflict
So you see a colleague violating a safety procedure while operating equipment, or breaking office ethics protocol.
Given most people’s propensity for avoiding...
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Finding New Methods for Educating Your Crew
Your employees and customers come to you for solutions all day long. Wouldn’t it be nice if someone could hand us similar...
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9 Reasons For Your Business to Try Chatbots
Running a business is hard.
That’s the understatement of the year, huh? But the truth is, in some ways, running a business is harder than...
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Fostering Accountability in the Workplace
Ask 50 different people what it means to have an accountable workforce, and you could very well get 50 different answers, covering...











