Spending Quality Time with Your Family
We all know how it goes: you get caught up in survival mode and the cycle of the busy work week, and another year has passed by in a blink of an eye. Spending quality time together helps family members to build secure relationships and to support each other. However, it can be a struggle to prioritize family time with all our daily commitments. As the holiday season rolls around,…
Discussions You Need to Have Before You Have Your Baby
Welcoming a new member into the family is a joyous occasion. It’s often heralded by birthing classes and baby showers and a mad rush as parents try to buy the best for their cherished baby. It can be an event that brings families together and strengthens ties between spouses. But oftentimes, to-be parents forget that the journey to parenthood isn’t always lined with roses; there are tough decisions you have…
The 5 Most Important Aspects of Digital Marketing for Small Businesses
There are endless online channels and digital opportunities for marketing out there, which can be both an opportunity and a threat to small businesses. Knowing where to focus your time and resources for digital marketing can be a big challenge. Here are the five areas of digital marketing we recommend you focus on as a small business. 1. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) SEO is all about improving your website content…
Executive Presence: Myths and How to Exude It
Having a presence as a leader doesn’t mean you exhibit executive presence. Unbowed executive presence comes second on the list of top leadership traits that make you stand out from average leaders. Many leaders get bogged down by myths of executive presence; hence no one takes them seriously. For instance, various degrees of success don’t determine whether you ooze executive traits as it is not a canned experience. Other misconceptions…
3 Benefits to Learning a New Language & How to Get Started
Learning a new language can be a daunting task. A whole new set of grammar rules combined with a new vocabulary can seem like a challenging obstacle at first. Truth be told, it is. Many factors determine how difficult a foreign language is. Especially if new characters or vocal patterns are involved, things tend to get a little bit harder. But learning a language is worth the time. It can…
Social Media Marketing Tips for Beginners and Professionals
Social media marketing is all about using different social media platforms to create and maintain awareness about your brand, services, or products. With the appropriate social media marketing strategy, you can get more traffic for a website, boost sales, and attract more customers. It can also increase social media followers and/or gain increased visibility of a service or product. While social media marketing may sound simple, it involves lots of…
Healthy Habits to Maintain Your Immune System
As we welcome the fall season, you may notice that some people around you are bogged down by the flu. In fact, flu viruses are most common during fall and winter, with influenza activity beginning to rise in October. Several other respiratory viruses tend to circulate around flu season, some of which can lead to severe respiratory issues in young children and prove fatal to individuals aged 65 and older.…
State of the Logistics Industry
Logistics describes the process of moving and coordinating business resources such as equipment, inventory, food, materials, and people across multiple locations. This process enhances the daily activities of running a company, from production to service delivery. The services that complement logistics in any industry include Third-Party (3PL), Fourth-Party (4PL), inbound, outbound, reverse, and green logistics. The industry came at a standstill in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, with movement…
Building for Your Retirement
While there are many options regarding where people live when they retire, more and more retirees are beginning to build instead of rent. One of the primary reasons, of course, is for control over the design. There does not need to be any wasted space. The home needs to be specifically friendly and accessible to the owner. Furthermore, the house needs to feel like it is yours, and not just…
Hawaii: Jewel in the Pacific
Planning your next vacation? Think beautiful sandy beaches, clear blue waters, volcanic islands brimming with wildlife and a rich and welcoming culture with friendly people. Hawaii is a unique state within the United States in that it is the only state outside of the North American continent, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state in the tropics. A popular tourist destination, it welcomes people from all…