By Garry Grant October 31st, 2016 On August 29th, 2016, Google significantly updated their requirements for adding review rich snippets to local business schema markup. The updated guidelines make it much more difficult for local businesses to use review rich snippets since all reviews must be directly produced by the website and can’t use a … Continue reading How to Get Around Google’s New Local Business Review Guidelines
Barry Roos — October 27, 2016 Follow @roosites— October 27, 2016 My clients often ask me how often should they be reviewing their website and social media campaigns. Well, being a web guy I look at my web properties all the time, every day. But I realize other people have other priorities, and running a … Continue reading Change of Seasons, Time To Review
by Aaron Baar, Staff Writer, September 20, 2016 I recently had some work done around the house. The crew that came was efficient, courteous and competent. Two days after their visit, I received a follow-up call: Was I happy with the service? On a scale of one-to-10, how would I rate it? After giving generally … Continue reading Like This? Give It A Good Review
by Susanna PerkinsSeptember 12, 2016 When you’re a solopreneur, you need to recognize and take advantage of those times when you naturally feel energized and creative. For some, it’s January 1, the start of a new calendar year. To those people I say, New Year, schmoo year. The time when I feel like starting fresh … Continue reading How To Review, Reinvent And Revitalize Your Growing Solopreneur Business
by Carlos SeraAugust 27, 2016 “How Investment Advisors Hurt Millennials and How Millennials Hurt Themselves” As the father of four Millennials, I am angry at the blatant disregard Investment Advisors show towards Millennials. The most egregious disregard is the recent advent of automated investing as a way of catering to the investment wants, not needs, … Continue reading E Trade Adaptive Portfolio Review – A Millennial Tale
by Erin Dore MillerAugust 26, 2016 We know a lot of people that are currently either looking for new opportunities or preparing to begin a job search. Whether you’re in the market for a new job or not, we recommend thoroughly reviewing your profile a few times a year. If you are focused on pursuing … Continue reading 4 Ways to Review Your Profile in Case of an Opportunity
by Dave Brock July 3, 2016 Follow @davidabrockJuly 3, 2016 There is no doubt the performance planning and review process in most organizations is broken. Too often, it’s a meaningless annual exercise of managers and their people filling out forms, having “the conversation” then going back to their real work. Too often, the review process … Continue reading Ditching The Performance Review! Another Look
by Curtis Boyd July 1, 2016 Follow @CurtisFSMJuly 1, 2016 In today’s marketplace you will find a variety of tools and advice that yield all kinds of results. As a business owner it can be hard to know what advice to listen to and implement within your business model. The general consensus is the same … Continue reading Create a Review Generating Machine in 3 Easy Steps
WIth local business reviews influencing click-throughs from search (and possibly even local rankings themselves), columnist Brian Patterson notes that large businesses with many locations need to have a strategy for obtaining and managing reviews. Brian Patterson on June 7, 2016 Reviews are an undeniable internet phenomenon. A short 20 years ago, our opinions of … Continue reading Review improvement strategies for franchise and multi-location companies
by Heather Steele April 5, 2016April 5, 2016 Oh, the employee review. Everyone’s favorite time of the year… when we feel compelled to force our colleagues to eek out total bullshit answers to boring, random questions that rarely relate directly to the job they perform. Why do we torture these people? Why do we torture … Continue reading Rethinking the Torturous Process of Employee Reviews
