Most consumers could not have imagined ten years ago that they could explore the Parthenon from the comfort of their own home, have a high-quality selection of wine delivered to their door on a monthly basis, or teach their children to multiply fractions using a smartphone app. Nonetheless, virtual brands...
Ways Your Business Can Benefit From a Virtual Office
The term "virtual office" may have seemed weird a few years ago, but it is now very commonplace. Even if a business does not have a physical location, it can nevertheless supply goods and services. There is less need for a firm to function from a traditional brick-and-mortar site due...
Essential Building Blocks of Launching Your First Ecommerce Business
You’ve decided to get on the eCommerce train. After all, the train is going fast and showing no signs of slowing down! Not only can you sell to anyone in the world at any time of the day or week, but in many ways, running an online store means that...
The Impact of On-Demand Workforces on the World
The days of an employee working for eight hours a day at an office are gradually fading away. Today, an increasing number of employees work from their home office in New York or from a coworking space in Thailand. What we're seeing now is a big transition away from the...
What Can Economists in the Virtual World Teach Us About Real-World Economies?
Eyjólfur Gumundsson is the sole economist on the planet who studies the cost of warp-disruption batteries and T2 light drones. He's the world's first virtual-world economist, after all. Gumundsson moved into EVE Online, a massively multiplayer online game, in August to report on the game's economics, conduct studies on its...
8 Benefits of Business Automation
Business process automation is highly beneficial to firms… Today, I'll discuss broader topics and apply them to all businesses. Let's start with some practical benefits, shall we? The advantages of automation in practice: 1. Get rid of paper at the source We can digitize virtually any paper document - it's...
Effective Leadership: Why It’s Significant And How It’s Managed
Let's go right to the point: No successful business would have gotten to where it is now without outstanding leadership. Effective leadership is virtually always one of the most essential and fundamental drivers of development, growth, and innovation. It's also worth noting that leadership isn't about titles or awards. Effective...
Influential Leaders Possess Eight Key Characteristics
The Dean's Executive Leadership Series (DELS), which comprises in-depth interviews with today's leading business practitioners and thought leaders, has been sponsored by the Graziadio School and Farmers' Insurance Group for the past few years. The topic of effective leadership has come up in many of these debates. With the Wall...
6 AI-Powered Tools For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs may now access artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies through a variety of online tools and applications. Entrepreneurs may use AI-powered technologies to automate company communication, gain insights from phone calls, sales, and marketing data, develop intelligent social media and content campaigns, and much more. Here's a list of...
WHY YOU SHOULD CONSIDER HIRING A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT
While tech and automation have synonymously created the field of marketing technology at an accelerating rate, 59% of American consumers feel companies have lost touch with the human element of customer experience, and 82% want more, not less, human interaction in the future, according to PwC. In spite of the clamoring...