Starting a Business on Your Own? 3 Key Things You Need

If you are ready to start working on your own as an independent contractor, there are some things you want to get that you can carry around with you. You want to be sure that you are always prepared to share information about yourself, sign a contract or document, or make a deal. Here are some of the things to consider. Marketing Materials Make sure you always have business cards, post cards, pamphlets, promotional flyers and other information to hand out to people that you meet. [Read More]

Need a More Personalized Networking Scheme?

Internet Protocol (IP) addresses aren't a major part of public perception. Since Domain Name System (DNS) servers keep IP addresses bound to easier to remember website names, the only people who need to be concerned about an appealing IP scheme are your technicians and technical partners. That said, an organized IP layout can make things much easier to organize. When you need higher-level domain management and IP ranges that cluster together before subnetting is involved, consider these group-minded approaches to IP scheme purchases and configuration. [Read More]

UX Design Briefs: Tapping Into The User Experience From The Inside Out

The Internet and the user experience--known in the biz as the UX--is about making your presence on the Internet accessible and usable. You want your users' experiences to be good ones. Designing for that pleasurable UX on the fly is risky because you don't always tap into that user relationship in correlation to what you want to convey online. Design goes further than just what your company web site looks like on the Internet. [Read More]

Tools And Ideas To Help You Prevent Employee Theft

US workers lead the world in internal theft, and in fact, if you run a retail establishment, on average, 43% of your theft comes from your employees. As a business owner, it's critical to have security elements and practices in place to fight internal theft. There are multiple tactics that can help, but here are a few ideas you should explore: 1. Limited Access When thinking about security, it's easy to focus on preventing people from getting inside your shop, but that should only be your first line of defense. [Read More]