Different Types of Stamps and Their Usage

Contributed article in our business series, especially for our Australian friends. Enjoy! – Kimberly

Technology has made maintaining paperwork much easier and faster. However, there are still things that need human interaction. Any paper designed and printed by a computer is not legitimate without an authoring mark on it. These marks can be your signature, company logo, etc. Without these marks, even the most important document is just a scarp. Stamps make the document marking easier. There are several types of stamps available in the market. From wax stamps to ink stamps in Australia at Dial A Stamp, you can choose the best one for you. You can also personalize the information imprinted on these stamps. Here we try to give you an overview of the types of stamps available in the market and their implementation.Continue reading→

Keeping Your Employees Happy: a Guide

Contributed article in our business series. Enjoy! – Kimberly

For some companies, employee satisfaction is too far down on the priorities list. Some businesses may forfeit contented employees for a high-pressure work environment or a cheap-to-run workforce. Keeping your office happy is not just about empathy or wanting others to feel pleased about their job (although those are both important), but it stops your company losing both money and time. Constantly putting out job adverts and interviewing new candidates will inevitably cost your business money through wasted and unproductive time.Continue reading→

Mentoring 101: How to Choose the Right Protégés

Effective mentorship strategies can give enterprises a huge boost. The great minds and professionals of today were not born with greatness. They were all sculpted by their experiences, and with most success stories there is usually a fruitful mentor-protégé partnership that helped develop them and guide them to success.

Industries were built on great mentorship. Take, for instance, the iconic Oprah Winfrey who had well-renowned author Maya Angelou as her mentor. Steve Jobs mentored not just one but many of the current business moguls making an impact right now, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Marc Benioff of Salesforce. Fashion visionaries like Christian Dior were under the tutelage of haute couture designer Yves St. Laurent. Sir Felix Aylmer mentored Audrey Hepburn, who in turn mentored Elizabeth Taylor. And well, the list goes on.

But how do you find good candidates to mentor? Here are a few things you need to know when choosing the right protégé:

Their talents are aligned with your strategies

The key to good mentorship strategies are planning ahead and naturally embedding mentorship in the workplace.Continue reading→

How to Encourage Visitors to Your Website

Contributed article in our business series. Enjoy! – Kimberly

A website can be the lifeline of any business, and yours is no exception. The explosion of the use of smartphones, tablets and other digital devices means that viewers can look for what they want wherever they are, and the first place they go to is the search engines. You want your website to appear in the first couple of pages of results, but to achieve this you need to know how to encourage visitors to your website. No visitors will mean a lower place in the rankings, but there are ways to make sure you get the numbers you need viewing your site.Continue reading→

How to Look Chic in a Dressed Down Workplace

Contributed article in our business series. Enjoy! – Kimberly

Casual office dress codes are now pretty much the norm in some industries, particularly if you work in tech or media and are not in a client facing role. Some other offices do keep a business casual dress code, but have dress down days on Fridays as a weekly thing for staff to look forward to.

However, for some people, the casual environment can actually be harder to dress for than a smarter one! If you are someone who feels more ‘ready to work’ when they are wearing professional looking clothes than when they are in comfy jeans, or someone who just prefers a more glamorous style whatever they are doing, then putting on the casual work staples of jeans and a sweater or t-shirt can feel quite uninspiring. After all, work is where you spend a good amount of your time and have many of your social interactions, so you want it to be somewhere you can show off your own personal style if that is something important to you!

If you are looking to upgrade your work wardrobe to a more chic look without feeling out of place in your casual workplace, here are some ideas:Continue reading→

How to Ensure Your Company-Based Video Content is Reaching a Broad Audience

Contributed article in our business series. Enjoy! – Kimberly

When you take the time and energy, not to mention investing money in creating video marketing and advertising content for your company, you want to be sure it is reaching as broad an audience as possible. To do that, you need to find the appropriate channels to distribute your video, paying close attention to who the audience is, making sure it fits your key demographics.

So, what happens if you aren’t quite satisfied with your reach, and you’re questioning if you are in fact doing all you can to get your content out there? Here are some tips and advice that will help ensure your video content is reaching the broad audience you hoped for.

Understand It’s Not a One-Size Fits All Approach

One of the biggest mistakes companies can make is to assume video marketing is a one-size-fits-all approach. Continue reading→

Advantages of Using Mixbook

Contributed article in our business series. Enjoy! – Kimberly

Mixbook is a high-quality custom photo books site that presents a variety of options to you and is very simple to use. Mixbook has cover options, such as matte, soft, leather, and glossy. The theme options include Travel, Family, Everyday, Wedding, and Baby. Besides that, Mixbook utilizes square, landscape, and portrait sizes and paper options such as premium matte and semi-gloss. Primarily, Mixbook provides a great variety, such as materials and stickers and high-quality prints. Besides, the software is easy to apply; thus, the task of creating your customized photo books becomes fun instead of a chore. If you are looking for the best site to create your custom photo books, then Mixbook should be your choice, for the reason that it comprises of fully editable and straightforward templates that enable speed creations and creativity.

The following are some of the most exclusive factors that make Mixbook your best choice for the creation of custom photo books.Continue reading→

ExpoMarketing Effectively Delivers for Their Clients

Contributed article in our business series. Enjoy! – Kimberly

ExpoMarketing is an essential means that businesses can employ to demonstrate and promote their services and products. Therefore, trade show displays are the leading product promotion techniques that encourage advertising your enterprise to other businesses and consumers. Principally, ExpoMarketing enhances the rate of success of your business because it presents double success probabilities. Trade show displays at ExpoMarketing are essential in the designing of booths for the participating companies. ExpoMarketing is a fabrication and exhibit design and an award-winning entity that engages in a variety of trade show displays for all sizes and types of clients. At Expo Marketing, an extremely hardworking team ensures that your expectations and the final products align, meaning it effectively delivers according to the desire of the clients. ExpoMarketing offers unique designs to the customers since it comprehensively considers all details pertaining to flooring, structure, layout, lighting, engineering, graphics, accessories, and furniture. Besides, ExpoMarketing offers you detailed and customized trade show displays to various brands through the in-house designers who implement the most recent materials and technology. The following are some of the unique ExpoMarketing aspects that make it exclusive and superior compared to others in the industry.Continue reading→

Creating Your E-Commerce Store: A Guide

Contributed article in our business series. Enjoy! – Kimberly

The internet has democratized who can start a business because now all it takes is a website to get your company up and running. An e-commerce store is simply a website with added payment functionality to enable web users to make sales through your website. This is a very simple piece of code that will work in harmony with a pre-existing layout, helping you shift your goods without a physical store. There are, however, additional risks and considerations to make in relation to your e-commerce store. But don’t worry, this simple guide will take you through every element that needs to be considered.

Security

Your clients will be submitting their data to your website in order to make purchases online, therefore it is essential that you invest in the best protection for your site. There are many ways to improve your website security and to ensure that its SQL is not violated in any way. An unsecured site can be damaging for your business should it be found in breach of data regulation.Continue reading→

Interview: I Always Knew I Wanted to Work with Hemp

Contributed article in our business series. Enjoy! – Kimberly

Marko Sladič, founder of Hemptouch d.o.o.

Hemptouch is a Slovene independent CBD oil and skin care brand, specialized in making hemp-based therapeutic balms, wonderfully moisturizing face creams and skin-friendly shampoos and cleansers. Inspired by powerful Cannabis Sativa plant, Hemptouch’s therapeutic natural remedies soothe and calm different types of skin problems.

Hemptouch skin care products are 100% natural, free from artificial fragrances, silicones, parabens phthalates, sodium lauryl sulphate and other skin irritants, plus vegan to boot. Hemptouch CBD oil is the highest quality, CO2 extracted at low temperatures without any solvents or alcohol. Extracted from the hemp plant (Cannabis Sativa) grown under strict EU regulation. Non-GMO, free from pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers, and parabens.

Silvija, co-founder of Hemptouch on their hemp field in a small village in Slovenia

Silvija, why did you and Marko start Hemptouch?

I always had very sensitive skin and no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t find skin care products that would work for me. So I made one. It really worked so I started making skin remedies for very sensitive people, who couldn’t use conventional skin care. Marko, on the other hand had experience with industrial hemp, and it was long time ago when he planted some fields for first experimental harvests.

In 2014 we joined our two passions into one: therapeutic skin remedies based on Cannabis sativa extracts. It was around that time that first information about potential uses of CBD started trickling in and we immediately saw potential in it as a skin soother. Even more, studies showed it balanced sebum production and so products for acne and oily skin were developed.

Tell me about the beginnings …

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