[ad_1] Reader Resource Join Entrepreneur’s The Goal Standard Challenge and make 2017 yours. Learn more » A recent New York Times article highlighted the daunting task of picking the right health plan. It’s one of the most maddening and complicated decisions (outside of doing your taxes) that you make on a …

[ad_1] In today’s interconnected world — where one negative customer experience can spread like wildfire — an incredible positive experience, by contrast, can be a brand’s defining moment. Related: Employee Management: Reward the Best, Replace the Worst Exactly that kind of defining moment came for us when a member of our front-line …

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[ad_1] Reader Resource Join Entrepreneur’s The Goal Standard Challenge and make 2017 yours. Learn more » When I graduated from college, I had no work experience. And that didn’t sit too well with the real life that followed. The result? I repeatedly messed up at work or fell behind schedule because I …

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[ad_1] Forget about the bride and groom: It’s all about the wedding guests these days. The average cost of a wedding climbed to a record high of $35,329 last year, according to The Knot’s 2016 Real Weddings study. That’s up 8% from the 2015 average. Meanwhile, the number of guests …

[ad_1] The cannabis industry has yet to find its way in marketing, which isn’t altogether that surprising as the industry is new. The potential lucrative market makes it, and everyone involved in it, a bit frenzied and unfocused. Of course, this no traditional industry. It’s owned and run by entrepreneurs. …

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[ad_1] Awarding higher pay and bonuses to top performers seems like the straightforward way to incentivize and retain great employees. The most popular format being performance-based bonuses, which keep base pay manageable and provide incentives for better performance. However, research shows us that this may not be as simple as …

[ad_1] This story appears in the October 2016 issue of Startups. Subscribe » When Jon S. Crowe invited his son, Jon P. Crowe, to take a road trip from their home in Omaha, Neb., to Whitewater, Wis., neither of them had ever, for a second, thought about working together. The …