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The Great Retention?

One of the great challenges in the pandemic and post-pandemic business landscape has been the so-called Great Resignation, the ballooning trend that saw millions of Americans leave their current jobs in search of something else. Some retired altogether, some pursued new jobs, and some even caught the entrepreneurship bug and…
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Beyond Compensation and Benefits

The specter of the Great Resignation continues to haunt most companies around the country, as droves and droves of employees are resigning to pursue other opportunities. With the workforce in so much flux, many businesses—especially small proprietorships—are rightly concerned about losing their best employees and having to deal with a…
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How Job Satisfaction Can Combat the Labor Shortage

There’s a labor crisis that, as Forbes reports, may be here to stay. Many are quick to point the finger at the broad availability of unemployment benefits since the start of the pandemic as the problem’s culprit, but it’s a problem that well predates COVID–19. “Comparing Labor Department data on…
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How to Safely Reopen

Stay-at-home orders began on March 19, 2020 in America, more than 440 days ago at the time of this post. Since then, nearly every business has had to contend with closures, reduced staff, social distancing implementations, supply-chain interruptions, and much more. Many restaurants became to-go only, and even doctors switched…
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A New Year

It surely goes without saying that 2020 was a difficult year for all of us. Pandemic. Social unrest. Lockdowns. Curfews. Questions about how to keep our businesses open or make ends meet haunted many of us. It’s no wonder that we’re so excited move into a new year. But we…
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Mystery Shopping During a Pandemic

Whether you’re a longtime mystery shopper, a dabbler, or a first-timer, you’ve probably wondered how this process works in light of the coronavirus pandemic. After all, restricted occupancy, social distancing, and facial coverings are sure to make any customer experience awkward and your task as an evaluator challenging—to say the…
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Finding Opportunity Amid Uncertainty

Even in the best of times, there has always been uncertainty in the marketplace, regardless of the industry your business is in. Trends come and go, the economy might be up or down, and even an election might change your company’s outlook. And because this is 2020—one of the strangest…
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Selling in the Age of COVID-19

Salespeople didn’t know how easy we had it before March 2020. In those days, we mainly had to focus on asking open-ended questions, explaining how our products and services could meet the customers’ needs, overcoming their objections, and closing the sale. Throw in some follow-ups and referral requests, and you…
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Pivoting to Take-Out and Delivery

Some states are reopening, others are reclosing, and still others are stuck someplace in between. Restauranteurs have it especially tough during this global pandemic because their businesses need volume in order to make up for already thin margins. Most restaurant managers even have a magic number of tables in their…
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