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Industry related topics in the realm of corporate culture, business, and the workplace.

Managing Your IT Services Effectively
IT Services is an extremely important part of any online business or company. While the average customer is not aware of this fact, it takes a lot of money, effort, and manpower in order to devise an IT service that is effective and responsive to a variety of queries, questions, and trouble shooting. If you’re choosing to run an online website for a company, you need to make sure that you’re willing to invest in top-level talent that you’re going to pay well. The systems you’re using should be up to date as well and you should make sure that your website will never be forced to go down or suffer from a lack of servers. Without effective IT services, your website and your business won’t be as successful or profitable as you would like it to be.
By Ben W9 years ago in Journal
Poor Girl's Guide to Side Gigs That Work
Side hustles are the millennial way of life, and reporters are eager to point it out. Of course, back when I first started my first “side hustle” it was just called a second job, and everyone felt sorry for the fact that I needed two jobs to pay the bills. At the time I had a part time job that I desperately needed to be full time. So, instead of one full time job, I had two 30 hour jobs. It was hectic, but it worked. It’s a story we all know pretty well.
By Haybitch Abersnatchy9 years ago in Journal
Goop and the Monetisation of Female Empowerment
Lately, there has been a lot of coverage of the ludicrous claims made by Goop, the “modern lifestyle brand” owned by Gwyneth Paltrow. A few weeks previous, it was the preserve of a particular niche of the market, but now we all know about it due to an incisive blog by Dr. Jen Gunter, an OB-GYN devoted to promoting evidence-based health care, you know, the kind that actually works. Paltrow made things worse for herself by attempting a rebuttal of Dr. Gunter’s criticism, only to reveal the secrets of her playbook for selling snake oil.
By Katy Preen9 years ago in Journal
Pizzas and Pennies
I don’t want to sound like a Debbie downer, but most people generally suck at tipping. Maybe it isn’t necessarily the public’s fault, but hell I like using their ignorance as a scapegoat. The real problem is that some people go their whole lives without ever working in food service. Others try and forget how shitty the experience was once they land a “big kid” job. I digress. Tipping is important, and here’s why:
By Katherine Schaefer9 years ago in Journal
Truth About Acting
Okay, so you want to be an actor? That's amazing, and I want you to know I believe in you! The truth is though, it's going to be a very long journey.
By Florence Gilbert9 years ago in Journal
Maths (or Math)
Maths (or Math). This word strikes fear into most people or at least it brings up bad memories at school. Memorising times tables, learning equations and algebra which most of us never use.
By Gregory Eze9 years ago in Journal
The World's Most Epic Commutes
For many, the daily commute to work can be an incredible burden. Whether it's by car, bus, subway, walk - getting to work can be a grind.
By Richard Owens9 years ago in Journal
The Purpose of A Photograph
As the popular phrase goes, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” You can tell a lot about a person or an animal or an object based off of a photograph. While a photograph does not tell the whole story, it’s quite common to think that a picture can give a lot of insight into a situation, an event, or a passing moment. Photographs are extremely visually appealing to most people and that’s why they are used often for marketing and/or advertising purposes. By using photographs in order to market yourself, your business, or your firm, you may have an advantage over other companies that you’re competing with. An attractive or powerful image can have a major positive impact and cause your business to become more popular than ever before.
By Ben W9 years ago in Journal
Why You Should Be Strategic with Your Social Media Presence
In this day and age, with the rise of social media, more and more companies are looking to be more strategic with this part of the Internet. If you strategically use social media in the correct ways, it can be a boon to both your marketing and advertising efforts. Social media does not pay off for every business so it’s important to be strategic with how you use this tool in order to be successful. There is a lot of research out there about using the presence of social media in order to benefit one’s company and it’s well-known that there are a few strategic ways that it can be utilized in order to boost your business’s profits and online notoriety.
By Ben W9 years ago in Journal
My Adventures as a Pizza Delivery Driver
As I find myself delivering pizzas once again, I am up for the next delivery at work and it is to a very large country music venue hotel. The hotel is so massive that the delivery drivers from work are not allowed to go inside of the hotel to deliver a pizza. If we were to have to go inside of the hotel to make deliveries to customers, it would take probably thirty minutes or longer, waiting at the front desk for the customer to arrive to get their food. When that delivery to the hotel comes up, the delivery drivers just pull up to where the valet parking is and the customer comes outside to meet us.
By Rhonda Farley9 years ago in Journal
Things They Don't Tell You About MLM Companies
If you ask many desperate college students, housewives, and single moms, the bane of their existence is MLM companies. MLM companies, also known as multi-level marketing or network marketing companies, are companies that hire people to sell goods on behalf of them.
By Ossiana Tepfenhart9 years ago in Journal
My Adventures as a Pizza Delivery Driver
As I get to work one afternoon, not long ago, I find myself traveling across town to deliver another pizza to an apartment complex. Before I left the store that day, it looks like the manager on duty would have told me what was going on with this particular order, but did not. I left the store with a zero amount on the customer's receipt. All the way to my destination, I was wondering why I had a zero amount for this order. Sometimes the store gets extremely busy and the delivery drivers can not handle the overload, so I was thinking this was probably the case. It was not.
By Rhonda Farley9 years ago in Journal