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Managing finances as a college-going student is not easy. Even when you receive financial backing from your parents or university, you will still have to be mindful of how much and where you spend. A student budget, after all, is a formula based on cost-cutting, selective purchases, savings, and occasional...

Customers are a business's most valuable resource, and knowing what a customer is looking for is vital for every business endeavor. How a customer views a business, or a company is essential for business operations, since it impacts its overall reputation. Therefore, to truly attain success, putting the customer and...

With all the research and evidence on benefits of being methodical, why are so many top executives hares rather than tortoises? Here are five benefits of slowing down that will give you pause. Many business leaders and entrepreneurs believe that the key to getting ahead is to go-go-go, work at...

Can social entrepreneurship contribute to a better future for the world? Paths of Greece is a Social Co-operative Enterprise that was founded 12 years ago. Fivos Tsaravopoulos is the general manager of Paths of Greece, and his vision for the company is to help Greece become one of the top...

26.5% of administrative roles are being misrepresented, or worse, left out altogether when it comes to company organisational charts, a recent survey by the Australian Admin Awards shows. The Australian Admin Awards recently conducted a survey experiment through their Instagram and LinkedIn profiles to ascertain where assistants sit on their...

Several years ago, I was speaking to an investment manager who constantly delivered a good and steady financial performance. I asked him what his investment principles were. One of them, he said, was that he never invested in anything that was labeled as ‘exciting.’ His view was that exciting things...

CEO and Founder of Pro Hockey Development Group Lindsay Hofford cover what it takes to start a Pro Hockey business. Whether starting a hockey business from scratch or looking to grow an existing one, a few things are needed first. Fortunately, learning the hard way is a thing of the past....

Resource management is a process that all businesses should follow, but it's not always easy to do. Business owners and managers often find themselves with too many resources or insufficient. The key is finding the right balance between managing resources efficiently and providing enough time for employees to perform their...

Brad Zackson, co-founder and director of development for full-service real estate firm Dynamic Star, believes investing in multi-family real estate can be exciting and lucrative. Unfortunately, some investments are the result of ill-informed decisions. While sometimes a property investment does not pan out for reasons out of one’s control, an...

With the coming of a new green era, fossil fuels are poised to go the dinosaur's way. Soon enough, the combustion automobile engine as we know it will be a thing of the past. Even as hydrogen-powered cars loom on the horizon, electric vehicles (EVs) are currently making inroads into...