Category: Business Ideas

Netflix – The Greatest Crowdsourcing Example of All Times?

Netflix launched in 2006 and it was a huge challenge. Promising to be bigger and better than Cinematch, they set themselves what seemed like an impossible task. What they did to make their dream come true, however, was crowdsource. They asked anyone to come up with a piece of software that was able to predict movie preferences, and the winner would get $1 million. Unsurprisingly, the crowdsource software that Netflix used for this became one of the top online hits within hours of the contest launching. Read more [...]

5 CEOs who could transform ANY company

Their salaries are scrutinized and sometimes, this is completely vindicated. However, any CEO who is worth his salt can command whatever money he asks for. As you'll see through several of the examples we're about to mull over through this page, a good CEO can be the difference between success and failure. Some companies have been on a hiding to nothing, before having a new CEO put in place and experiencing a transformation in fortunes. So, who makes the grade? Here are five of our favorite CEOs Read more [...]

An Inside Look into Infor Global Solutions

Infor Global Solutions are a business-software provider that provides software and services for more than 70,000 global clients. Infor’s reputation is one of innovative and beautiful software suites that fits the needs of customers in a huge variety of sectors. Infor’s recent $675 million acquisition of Nexus GT, the World’s biggest provider of cloud computing software, indicates both their scale and their forward thinking approach. The last 5 years of Infor’s history has been one of re-invention Read more [...]

4 Top Tips for Growing Your Small Business Fast

When you want to expand your business into new markets, or to invest in new products and services, you need to get some effective strategies. Expansion can be rewarding but if you rush into the process without thought it may be more costly than you imagine. Getting your resources together, planning your path to expansion, and deciding where to focus your efforts are crucial when your business is getting bigger. Here are a few ideas you can use to see your business flourish. 1. Create a Distinctive Read more [...]

Your Responsibilities When You Rent a Business Premises in London

When you are setting up in business in London you need to do more than draw up a business plan and work out your marketing strategy. You also need to focus on some of the more practical issues involved in running and maintaining your business premises, including how to ensure electrical and gas safety. Gas and electric safety are imperative to maintain in order to provide a safe working environment for employees and safety for the public. As well as gas and electricity, you should also pay attention Read more [...]

Using Roller Banners to Boost Your Business

You might have seen a roller banner before, but you just didn’t know the right term. Roller banners are placed either vertically or horizontally and stand on the ground. Other banners are usually hung from an altitude. These banners can be set up anywhere. As long as the ground is smooth where they will be placed, they can be assembled in that area. Roller banners are extremely easy to set up. You just have to remove it from its container, pull it up (or sideways) until it reaches its maximum Read more [...]

Web designing blunders that can cost you big time – How to avoid them

We know ‘to err is human’ but when it comes to web designing, mistakes can not only help you prove that you’re a human but can also cost you huge amount of your dollars. Suppose you take a look back at your website design and see that you committed a mistake and suddenly it dawns upon you how you could make that design faux pas. Although you can’t go back in time, you can definitely make some rectifications in order to mend things. There are probably more than 100 deadly mistakes that can Read more [...]

Vanilla Options: What are they?

If you are not yet aware of what the vanilla options are, you are definitely missing out on a lot. Touted as a new frontier in Forex, Vanilla Options are way different from conventional investing – opening up new avenues of profits. Do explore more about this trading option in this particular post. Vanilla Trading Options: What you need to find out about them Let us start off by saying that vanilla option has turned out to be one of the most popular trading choices owing to a number of factors Read more [...]

Investing in Forex: Are you choosing the right broker?

Forex has emerged as a preferred investment option for business-owners today- thanks to the great window of profit offered by it. However, there are several considerations that you need to make while you’re in the process of making a foray in to the Foreign Exchange market. Now, a forex broker plays a very important role in partially influencing your trading fortunes. It is because of the fact that these brokers act as the intermediaries between the forex market and you. Trading platforms A Read more [...]

Three Global Payment Services Disruptors for the New Economy

Just as the industrial revolution changed cities, workers and business across the globe, so too has the disruption of the web. Online businesses are growing by leaps and bounds and the demarcation line between markets is becoming a faint memory. The new market is not interested in political boundaries between markets or taking time to get the goods into the marketplace. As the pace of business increases, the ability to make global payment services the center for all financial transactions grows Read more [...]