Posts Tagged ‘Doing Business in Missoula’
How to Lower Your Business Electricity Bill
When it comes to small businesses, it’s more important than ever to utilize energy efficient practices to help reduce your energy costs.... more
Passing Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Certification Exams with PrepAway Exam Prep!
Having the MCSA: Windows Server 2016 certification puts you in a better position to win multiple jobs available in the market. ... more
Cheap Ways to Build a Website for Emerging Businesses
A few decades ago, building a website required knowledge of coding as well as programming and the use of certain specialists. However, nowadays, pretty much anyone can build a website without it costing a f... more
Accountability Starts With You
By MARK RIFFEY - Are you holding your team members accountable for their work based on key performance indicators (KPIs), key process areas (KPAs), and/or key result areas (KRAs)?... more
Does Your Business Need a Virtual Phone Service?
Even with the rise of the internet, chat services and email, plenty of people still prefer to talk to an actual human being over the telephone.... more
5 Small Business Mistakes to Avoid
Here are five mistakes that all small business owners can avoid to take themselves to success and prosperity.... more
How to Grow Your Small Business on a Budget
A small business cannot afford to stand still as it has to grow and evolve constantly in order to be competitive in the ever-changing market.... more
Thinking About Your Thinking
By MARK RIFFEY - What else can go wrong? What'd we assume? How would others think about this?... more
Start a Business in Montana
The success of any venture largely depends on careful planning.... more
How to Start a Fashion Business As a Stay at Home Mum
If you’re a stay at home mum looking to start an online fashion business, you will know better than anyone else the value of time. ... more
What to Do If Injury Affects Your Work Life
In this handy guide, you will learn of three proactive things that can be done to get your life back on track after an injury.... more
Marketing Tips for Local Small Businesses
One of the biggest challenges small businesses face is developing a good marketing strategy. Here are some marketing tips for small business owners.... more
How Multilingualism Helps Improve Businesses
Here's a few ways for you and your business to become bilingual:... more
4 Reasons to Use Social Media in Your Business
By EMILY JOHN - If you haven’t yet started your business’s social media page, here are some reasons why you shouldn’t delay any longer.... more
Improve Productivity with Excavator Attachments
The right excavator attachment can help get your construction or demolition job done right and improve productivity. ... more
Learning Lessons from Missoula’s Philanthropists
Missoula has a solid history of charitable giving.... more
Who Can Help You?
By MARK RIFFEY - This past week seems to have been a perfect storm of paths crossing about getting help from coaches, mentors and teachers.... more
Are You Doing the Important Work?
By MARK RIFFEY - What are you not getting done? Why aren’t you getting those things done? Does important work often go undone? If so, is that work truly important?... more
Five Business Myths To Ignore
By MARK RIFFEY - Focusing on these myths will do nothing but delay the success of your business. Shut them out.... more
What Can’t Change that Must Change?
By MARK RIFFEY - What Can’t Change that Must Change? If you doubled the size of your sales team, would your sales double?... more
The Sales Prevention Department
By MARK RIFFEY - Is a part of your process killing sales and running off clients? If you have a 'sales prevention department' here's how you can get rid of it!... more
What The Supreme Court And Your Business Share
By MARK RIFFEY - Events like this can have a critical, if not fatal impact on your business. Could your business survive your death or permanent disability?... more
Is It Done Yet?
By MARK RIFFEY - The earlier the customer sees your work, the earlier you'll find out if you're on track.... more
Why Do Startups Fight City Hall?
By MARK RIFFEY - To a startup, city hall is often the next obstacle in line.... more
Start Your Marketing Calendar
By MARK RIFFEY - Are you marketing with intent or by accident? Choose intent.... more
Hiring Entry Level People and (Gasp) Millennials
By MARK RIFFEY - I know a number of 20-somethings who are looking for jobs. Some like to categorize “millennials” as a generation of slackers with no work ethic and no motivation.... more
Train Them To Make It Easy To Buy
By MARK RIFFEY - Word of mouth business and referrals come from handling problems gracefully.... more
Leading Your Team to Goal Setting
By MARK RIFFEY - How do you prepare your staff to contribute to your company's success?... more
Company Goals Need Context
By MARK RIFFEY - Company-wide goals need to have "Why does this matter to me?" context at all levels of the company, for every employee.... more
Working Linear vs. Parallel
By MARK RIFFEY - What costs do you introduce by solving problems sequentially?... more
Is Your Business 2016 Ready?
By MARK RIFFEY - Planning for 2016 is about more than adjusting numbers in a spreadsheet.... more
Do They Have Each Other’s Back?
By MARK RIFFEY - Culture is critical, not only day to day, but to make sure you can take a punch.... more
Testing, testing…Is this job on?
By CHERY SABOL - Free tests allow employers to score job applicants. At Missoula Job Service, we help employers find workers. And we can Prove It!... more
DIRECTV Partners with Easter Seals-Goodwill to Collect Donations and Electronic Waste
Here's a FREE and EASY way keep your non-hazardous computer/electronics out of the Landfill: Dropoff On March 28 from 10 am-4pm at DIRECT TV.... more
New High Tech Company Opens in Missoula
Metals US, a Montana-based company with a sustainable metals processing technology, today announced that it will be headquartered in Missoula, Mont. The technology company offers cost effective and sustainab... more
Employers: Sign Up for Western Montana’s Largest Career Fair
Employers, Register NOW for Western Montana’s Largest Career Fair and save! April 24th at the Hilton Garden Inn. Early-bird registration fee is $85; after Monday, the cost goes up to $125.... more
When It Comest to Business: Start Doing the Right Things
By MARK RIFFEY - Rather than talking about 30 things to stop doing, I decided to discuss a shorter list of things to START doing in your business.... more
What Do Surprises Say About Your Business?
By MARK RIFFEY - Professionals seldom get surprised by normal things. If they are surprised, they take steps to eliminate problems before a client can see them.... more
Domestic Partnership Registry Open Today
Domestic partners in Montana now have a place to register their relationships. In July, the Missoula City Council approved a resolution creating a Domestic Partnership Registry.... more