4 Tips to Upscale Your Online Business With Shopify Plus - Margaret Buj - Interview Coach

4 Tips to Upscale Your Online Business With Shopify Plus Every online business owner wants to earn more money. Another thing that they dearly want is to spend a portion of their money on proper marketing techniques so that they can earn more in the long-run. Having money always gives you that safety blanket to fall back on when the business is going through a rough patch. But it is how you spend the money that will decide if you are going to make more money out of it or not. Here are some of the techniques to follow if you want to upscale your online business: Leverage the best SEO techniques SEO has played an important role in the success of online businesses. It is hard to digest the fact that the online companies would not even be in the territory to where they are now if not for SEO services. Following a few fundamental principles of SEO will make your website fall into the honey-trap of Google. This honey-trap is actually a good one for the companies because you will be adhering to the SEO rules of Google and this will automatically send your website right on top of the search engine. It will not only improve the visibility of the website but will also increase the chances of getting more traffic than you expected. Announce an attractive offer The word free is often very enticing for customers. They would sign up for a website that gives a welcome bonus or additional discounts at checkout. You can make the most of this opportunity. Most of the online stores that run on the Shopify Plus platform have introduced bonus schemes or given free gifts to customers who shared their email address or signed in with their mobile number. However, free is just a bait that is used to collect the contact details of the customers. This will allow you to make use of email marketing campaigns or mobile marketing to upscale your online business. Become responsive on Quora Since you will be focusing on improving the online business activities, it is important that you understand what customers want to know about the products or services that your company is selling. Becoming a regular user of Quora will become crucial because you will be engaging with the customers directly. Sometimes, it is not possible to personally ask customers what they want and what they don’t. Open forums like Quora can bridge that gap easily. Start a social media channel Billions of people use various social networking sites these days. This can be an excellent avenue to upscale your business because Shopify Plus comes with unique opportunities to connect the world population easily and effectively. A dedicated content channel will help spread the good word of an upcoming product or increase the visibility of the ongoing offers so that there is more traffic on the website. These 4 tips will come in handy if you follow them right from the starting of the business. Becoming an online business sensation is not tough; all you have to do is find ways to connect to your target customers more effectively.

The top 5 things you should do on LinkedIn each week - Hallie Crawford

The top 5 things you should do on LinkedIn each week So, you have created your profile and now you are done with the obligatory LinkedIn stuff. Hold on a minute! You might be okay with passively using LinkedIn if you’re not currently job searching, but in order to reap the benefits of a live network, you need to nurture it so it grows over time. Here are 5 things you should do on LinkedIn each week to stay engaged, grow your network, and connect with opportunities: 1. Update your status with news, something you learned, or share an industry related-article a. Stay active and on the radar by demonstrating your knowledge of current industry trends. What you post will appear on your contacts’ home page feed. If you write or follow a professional blog, this is a great place to share it. 2. See who has viewed your profile and evaluate whether you should connect with them a. This is a creative way to expand your network through a “warm” connection. It can also be very beneficial if you are trying to build your business through new clients. 3. Recommend or endorse someone you know a. Recommendations carry much more weight than endorsements so be sure to recommend others and ask them to write one for you. 4. See what is happening in the group discussion boards for groups you like a. Groups are a hot spot to plug into the latest trends, resources, and where people need help. Follow along and add your comments when valuable to the discussion. Many groups will post the picture of the top group influences, which enhances visibility. 5. Grow your network by sending personalized invitations to new people a. This is a critical follow up step after meeting someone in a formal or informal setting. Reach out to them with a customized invitation to connect message and keep your networking live and resource rich. This does take work, so I recommend choosing one of these 5 actions to start with. Spend just a few minutes each day until you are comfortable and then move on with another action step. Before long, you will become fluent and enjoy projecting your presence throughout the blue ether of LinkedIn. Ideal Career Coach P.S. How do you know if your resume is good?  Take this  Resume Quiz  to find out how to keep your resume out of the trash can.

How to Write a Cyber Security Analyst Resume

How to Write a Cyber Security Analyst ResumeA cyber security analyst resume is a significant document and should be given the highest priority. Cyber security jobs are of vital importance to society, so the proper functioning of our cyber security system and its relationships with other sectors in society should be undertaken with careful and cautiousness. The right foundation for this function is laid when the employer gets a clear and accurate picture of the candidate's profile.A resume should provide the employer with detailed information about a candidate that can be leveraged in making an informed decision about the candidate. The job requirements should be indicated on the resume. Information about relevant work experience, education and work qualification are also included in the resume. The objective is to get maximum benefit from the applicant's profile.The resume must include a summary of the educational qualifications, apart from their number, type, date and location. This should not be false, but instead the employer should have a clear picture of the candidate's learning and skills.The resume should highlight the importance of a security qualification as part of the overall candidate's profile. A security specialist may make excellent reports, but without a solid security qualification it is difficult to gain a foothold in this niche and remain competitive. Thus, the resume should clearly state what the security specialist has done to build his profile.After assessing the resume, the employer should look at the skills, educational qualifications and other relevant qualifications, which the candidate has attained after graduating from cyber security school. Skills such as writing, reporting, customer support, online marketing, etc., are some of the skills that would benefit the employer.Other skill areas that the employer should consider, are security knowledge and security interview preparation. At times, the hiring manager may be concerned about t he candidate's knowledge of certain technology or systems. The cyber security analyst resume should include the list of formal and informal cybersecurity training and certifications, for which the candidate has acquired any relevant certifications. This will indicate how much knowledge has been gained by the candidate in this regard.The resume should also tell the employer how much experience the candidate has had in dealing with different situations and have a clear understanding of his current work experiences. It should include all the information necessary to bring out the candidate's best and above average qualities.

Sears Workers Why Jobs Are Doomed After Eddie Lamperts Takeover

Sears Workers Why Jobs Are Doomed After Eddie Lampert’s Takeover It’s the dawn of a new era for Sears and Kmart â€" but employees are proceeding with caution. Sears Holdings Chairman Eddie Lampert came out on top with his $5.2 billion bid to rescue around 45,000 jobs and more than 400 stores from liquidation Wednesday morning, the company and ESL Investments later confirmed. Lampert’s takeover is a temporary sigh of relief for tens of thousands of employees who fretted over the likely loss of their jobs when the company filed for bankruptcy in October 2018. But some workers are now worried about what the company will look like under the billionaire investor‘s ownership. “I have no hope. I really don’t,” says Carole Brown, who has worked at a Kmart in New York City since 1997 and hopes to retire in 2020. “I can’t see nothing changing, unless (Lampert) decides to make a 360-degree turn. That’s the only way I see any hope for the company. If it survives by next year, it will be by the grace of God.” ‘Liquidating the store since he took over’ Current employees and laid-off workers tell MONEY they hope Lampert operates the company with their interests in mind â€" namely, with better protection for laid-off workers, stronger efforts to skirt store closures and layoffs, and improved benefits for current employees. “We’re treated unfairly,” says Brown, who has seen her benefits and hours change drastically with Kmart and Sears’ decline over the years. “It’s just not right.” Gabe Maguire, a Kmart employee whose store in North Carolina is slated to close in March, feels relieved for the remaining employees who won’t have to worry about liquidation, but doesn’t have “high hopes for the company.” “Some of these workers are telling us that they feel Lampert has been liquidating the store since he took over,” adds Lily Wang, an organizer with Rise Up Retail, a labor group that has been working with employees at Sears and Kmart throughout the company’s bankruptcy proceedings. Lampert formed Sears Holdings in 2005 and instigated a slew of cost-cutting initiatives that ultimately resulted in sales declines, store closures, inventory reductions, and brand sales amid an ever-changing retail environment. Under Lampert’s watch, more than 200,000 jobs have disappeared and more than 1,700 Sears and Kmart stores have shuttered, according to the Wall Street Journal. The company has not been profitable since 2010. The businessman was CEO of Sears Holdings from 2013 to late 2018, when he stepped down from the role but remained chairman of the company’s board during its bankruptcy filing. Sears’ largest shareholder and creditor is ESL Investments Inc, Lampert’s hedge fund. Lampert’s bid, which he made through his hedge fund, will keep Sears open for business so long as it receives a final stamp of approval from a U.S. bankruptcy court in a hearing scheduled in early February, Sears Holdings says. “The decisions are being made by Eddie Lampert and his hedge fund. They’re being made in the interest of his wealthy investment fund. And Sears has been a cash machine for them,” says economist Eileen Appelbaum, co-director of the left-leaning Center for Economic and Policy Research. “They’ve taken money and they’ve put almost nothing in.” “You hardly ever see anything quite as blatant as what has come to happen at Sears,” Applebaum adds. Lampert’s hopes for Sears In a December statement regarding his hedge fund’s potential ownership of the retailer, Lampert wrote that he will “continue to believe in the company’s immense potential to evolve and operate profitability.” “Our proposed business plan envisages significant strategic initiatives and investments in a right-sized network of large format and small retail stores, digital assets and interdependent operating businesses,” he continued. The retailer’s struggle to adjust to a changing landscape shows in recent years in particular. Hundreds of Sears and Kmart stores were closed in 2018, and 10,016 employees were laid off as a result, according to Challenger, Gray Christmas, a Chicago-based career transitioning firm. More than 4,880 of those layoffs occurred after Sears filed for bankruptcy in the fall, and dozens of other stores will close by March 2019. In late December, the company announced the closures of those 80 Sears and Kmart stores. Days before, the bankruptcy court granted Sears approval to award executives and senior-level employees with more than $25 million in bonuses in an effort to keep them at the company â€" a move that deepened the wound for recently laid-off workers, some of which had their severance pay cut short. The fight for severance pay Severance pay policies at Sears have changed over the years and, according to workers, it differs depending on a person’s role and is not awarded to part-time retail employees. One former corporate employee who was laid off last fall says she received her full severance pay despite the company’s bankruptcy. Some retail employees who were laid off in recent months said their severance pay was cut short or eliminated entirely as a result of the company’s bankruptcy filing. Sheila Brewer, who worked at an Illinois Kmart for 17 years and was laid off last year, said her eight weeks of severance pay checks were cut off after the company filed for bankruptcy in October. “We wake up and we live and breathe Kmart and do what we can for the company and give it our all,” Brewer told MONEY last month. “And in the end, they give us nothing.” In November, employees worked with the labor group Rise Up Retail to send Lampert a letter, demanding he guarantees severance pay and creates a financial hardship fund for laid-off workers. While the group says Lampert did not respond to the letter, he included a $40 million severance pay fund in his revised bid to take over the retailer. It’s unclear what will become of that fund, how much severance pay laid-off employees will receive, and when exactly they will get it. But ESL Investments said Thursday the fund will cover “certain severance costs incurred by Sears during bankruptcy and reinstate severance benefits for eligible employees in a new company.” The hedge fund did not respond when asked for clarification. The efforts from these workers impacted by the unpredictable nature of bankruptcy proceedings that have rocked some of the nation’s most iconic retailers in recent years echo those from more than 30,000 Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us employees, who lost their jobs last year when the company liquidated. As a result of their efforts, two of the private equity firms that once owned the retailer created a $20 million severance pay fund for laid-off workers. They received anywhere from $200 to $12,000, each, depending on how much they were owed according to the company’s severance plan before it filed for bankruptcy. “When you go to stores, the employees are the first person you encounter. You don’t encounter the vice president,” says Lakisha Williams, a former Kmart employee who was recently laid off and still financially supports three of her children. “You don’t encounter a regional vice president. You don’t even encounter a district manager. You encounter a sales associate. Those are the people who make the store run. I just feel like those are the people who should be looked out for â€" instead of the people at the top.” Rise Up Retail, the labor group organizing these employees and laid-off workers, hopes the creation of these funds could set a new precedent and pave the way for lawmakers to create more protections for workers who often are last in line in bankruptcy proceedings. “It was about demanding the respect that their job matters,” says Carrie Gleason, an organizer with Rise Up Retail. “This is part of a much bigger fight.” This story has been updated.

How I Changed My Schedule To Pursue A Passion Project

How I Changed My Schedule To Pursue A Passion Project Creating flexibility in yur work schedule can expand what is possible for you, your babo and your company. But whats the best way to start creating this benefit if it hasnt been a part of your organizations work culture?I was able to do this for myself through doing two main things leveraging a big project win and presenting my bosses with an appealing plan.About 12 years ago, I was working as the data manager for a large national nonprofit. I had overheard my boss and the executive director talk about a dilemma they were facing. A large number of member records were set to expire soon, and our organization was headed into a big campaign where having those active members would be crucial to our success.The organization typically signed up members through paid phone calls and direct mail campaigns. However, no one routinely tracked electronic source codes on member records. As I began to examine the data, I found that all of these records had some sort of dated source code in other words, the day the member signed up. In fact, though unknown to my boss, some members had another 6 to 8 months before their records would expire. I managed to rescue about 125,000 of these records, which proved to be helpful in winning our campaign.I knew I had to explain the value of what I had just done to an audience that had no understanding of my very specific, very technical skill set. So I set out to create a cost-savings analysis. This analysis would show the monetary value of the deferred costs I had saved the organization. I knew from previous campaigns that we would spend anywhere from $3 to $5 per member acquisition. So I split the difference and arrived at $500,000 in differed costs. I wrote up a quick memo, presented it to my boss, who in turn presented it to the executive director.The trust I built through this and other small negotiations paid off when I decided to propose a flexible work schedule for myself. I wa nted to work on a personal passion project one day a week, and needed to get the bosses to approve a compressed work schedule.Before going in to the meeting, I spent a week preparing to make my case, including writing out a memo that detailedFive reasons why it was to the bosses advantage to approve this unique situationA plan for coverage of my responsibilities in case something happened on my flex dayA detailed work plan of my time on compressed daysA short review of the ways I had innovated on my work product so that other team memberswould always be supported in their needsA firm timeline and a guarantee that this flexible schedule would only last one quartereThe executive director and my boss quickly approved my proposed flexible schedule, allowing me to keep my job and pursuemy passion project (which, at the time, was helping someone get elected to state office).So how can someone replicate this plan to advocate for a flexible schedule?Consider the following four takeaways to prepare for that negotiation1. Take advantage of a recent big project win or success that you had a part in. Nothing builds credibility like success, so be sure to authentically document the success of your work. As you include others in this process, you also have an important chance to build relationships of trust with your teammates and your superiors.2. Show how the flexible schedule provides direct value to your company. Always have clear evidence to back up the value of your request. Remember, youre not asking for something, youre offering them something. Reframe all requests in terms of how what you are proposingcreates or expands a direct benefit to your company. For example, working from home could be reframed as increased productivity because it reduces time senfgas on commuting.3. Come with a clear plan for your proposed flexible schedule, including contingencies.Minimize uncertaintyby being transparent and developa clear, written plan for coverage ofyour job.Developing a nd writing a plancan reassure your boss that you are looking after important details of your work. It also can signal to your boss and teamthat you are committed to the work and the success of everyone involved.4. Remember that you are helping create a precedent that might help your colleagues in the future, too. Increasing flexible schedules can help your teammatespursue passion projects, and can also help in situations where flexibility could be vital to easing the stress of parental or family leave. If youre nervous about negotiating in uncharted territory, remember that research shows that women often do better when they are negotiatingon behalf of others. So consider that as you help your company form flexible schedule policies, youre helping yourself and also helping other staff members who might need that flexibility for any number of reasons. That flexibility can create a real retention benefit for your company as well.--Tanya Tarr helps people step into their powerthrough t eaching collaborative negotiation skills. Since 2000, she has supported executive leaders in local and state government, as well as leaders in public education. She has also managed political and legislative advocacy campaigns across the US. Tanya hasa masters of science in performance measurement from Carnegie Mellon University and is acertified health coach. She is currently writing a negotiation manual for introverts.Fairygodboss is committed to improving the workplace and lives of women.Join us by reviewing your employer

The Key to Successful Resume Writing San Diego

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