There’s no getting around it: Email is essential to modern communication, but it can also be a time-sink, especially for busy business owners. You can’t shut it down completely, of course, but the good news is there are plenty of ways for you to get a better handle on it, manage it effectively and get […]
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Back when he was a young student and budding artist obsessing over the latest release from Nintendo, Godric Johnson knew he wanted to create his own video games someday — but there was nobody to show him how to make that dream a reality. Today, Johnson, the founder of Baton Rouge-based video game developer Jetstreame,
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Most business owners probably have a pretty good idea of what their revenue and costs are in a given month, but what about some of the other numbers? What about the formulas that can give you indications of how the business might perform in the future, and the kinds of decisions you should be considering? It’s not magic; it’s financial forecasting.
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Leadership speaker and coach Dima Ghawi recalls starting a new job years ago teeming with enthusiasm, ready to make a positive difference in her new organization.
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Three years ago Baton Rouge entrepreneur Travis Broussard and his wife, Summer, had grown increasingly disillusioned with hawking candy, magazines and cookie dough to raise money for the school their children attend. “We got tired hitting up our family and friends selling junk we can buy at the grocery store,” Broussard says. “We really started
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This guest post is by Lee Price, content marketing consultant at Rep Cap. If your job includes marketing, you know that the “digital marketing” umbrella includes a head-spinning array of tools, tactics and technologies. Social media, infographics, video, content marketing, text alerts — you could spend your entire work week chasing down new ideas. While
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The rapid growth of virtual reality is opening the door for small businesses to use the emerging technology to their advantage, Baton Rouge VR specialist Morgan Krutz says. Krutz offered a group of business owners and entrepreneurs suggestions on how to employ the technology — from immersive interactive environments for real estate professionals to digital
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Pixel Dash Studios co-founders Evan Smith and Jason Tate launched their Baton Rouge-based video game development company in 2009 with a single desk at the Louisiana Technology Park, grinding away at projects for other companies as they gradually built their business and plotted a more ambitious future. “We had the idea to try to do a
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Businesses face a daunting task when negotiating the complicated world of credit card processing, with wildly varying pricing structures and contrasting levels of customer support from provider to provider. For Precision Payment Systems CEO Alison Burns, the solution is to ask the processors as many questions as possible. Then ask some more. “I do a really
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In 2008, Rob Guba called out multiple times to his teenage son as the youth walked down a hallway at home. Focused intently on his mobile phone, the son ignored him and stepped straight into a wall. Guba, who is the CEO of the Baton Rouge-based technology company Cellcontrol, had a moment of parental panic
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