Expansion

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Ultimately, the best customer service any business can offer is to be accommodating. The best customer service is often the result of observing how society is changing and adapting to meet the current lifestyle needs. Let’s consider the distinction between transactional and relationship-based visually for a moment. […]

Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. When you get to a certain point in your entrepreneurial career, you can start to pivot toward thought leadership. […]

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You already know that relevant, personalized messaging can make or break your digital marketing campaign. So as we think about cutting through the noise during the increasingly competitive holiday season — where brands fine-tuned their Cyber Monday promotions for months and worked to solve supply chain shortages — how can your company […]

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Self-love is crucial for your mental and physical health — and for your business’s health.  At its core, self-love is about fully and unconditionally accepting yourself for who you are and what you have become so far. Self-love helps you remove the suffocating mask you have been wearing for the world. […]

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Many times in business, in order to embody something new and improved, you need to let go of what you used to represent. I help many businesses reinvent, differentiate and reposition themselves, all of which require a total mindset and identity shift for the business owner and his or her […]

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Starting and running a business never meant smooth sailing for entrepreneurs, but the global pandemic took activities to a whole different level of rough. Businesses across industries have been dealing with major challenges and uncertainties — spanning everything from liquidity to network security in a work-from-home world, […]

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The warning signs have been here for almost two years now. What has happened to business (and the world) in the past 18-plus months could never have been predicted — even in the most bizarre fictional story. So, now that the reality has set in, what are you doing to […]

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Recent labor market headlines have been discouraging for employers. Daily news feeds are flooded with stories of employers urgently needing to hire workers across industries, yet job seeker interest remains stagnant — plateauing at the exact moment that small and midsize businesses are actively seeking new workers and […]

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Restaurants and retail stores are reducing hours again, but it’s not because of the pandemic — at least not directly. Instead, many businesses in service industries have reduced hours or limited services because of staffing shortages. And as businesses scramble to hire and keep employees, many frontline […]

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Behind the Review host and Yelp’s Small Business Expert, Emily Washcovick, shares a look at this week’s episode of the podcast. When Rob van den Blink and his friends Jerry Bock and Erhan Kostepen started DOYA, their mission for the restaurant was to bring the Aegean dining experience to Miami. The three used […]

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When you think about subscription models, Amazon Prime, Netflix and Spotify may be the first that jump to mind, however, this model is by no means unique or individual anymore. Whether it is ink from HP, razors from Harrys, coffee at Pret A Manger or flowers from […]

Q: Trends are always changing. Which one would you bet on the next few years to help small businesses grow? — Leanna, Charleston, S.C. At first glance, trends look like great opportunities. A wave built by many is capable of carrying many to success. But as you say yourself, trends change. It’s hard to know how […]

Dick Schulze’s college prospects were diverted long ago by a stint in the Air National Guard, but that doesn’t mean he thinks emerging entrepreneurs and innovators shouldn’t pursue higher education. It’s why the 80-year-old Best Buy founder and Chairman Emeritus founded the University of St. Thomas’ Schulze School of Entrepreneurship in 2005. And it’s the reason he remains a […]

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Human capital is a broad term that includes everything from experience, skills and emotional well-being to other characteristics that clarify how workers provide economic value. Prior to the pandemic, my company, Domino Data Lab, operated well in the human capital context. Like many companies, it had an approach that […]