3 Tips for Pricing Your Product
Settling on a price for your products can be an absolute nightmare. Between monitoring competitors to make sure you stay competitive, managing production costs, keeping up with fluctuating prices of materials and — on top of all that — making sure customers will actually purchase your product, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and unsettled during
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Women, You Don’t Have to Be Loud to Be Good Leaders
It was a Friday afternoon in New York City, chilly inside the auditorium. Women crowded toward the front of the stage, their goodie bags spilling Luna Bars and lipstick samples into the aisles. For the first few hours of the conference, a parade of charismatic executives in color-blocked dresses had urged attendees to “speak up,”
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Engaging Women at Work Starts with Addressing Gender
Women have come a long way in the business world. Every day, women are rising to leadership positions, breaking into male-dominated fields, and launching their own companies. But because men have been in the corporate workforce so much longer than women, “male” has remained the default setting for workplace norms, and public radio journalist Ashley
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Nokia to Bring Offline Navigation to Samsung Galaxy Devices
Nokia may be abandoning Android on the hardware side, but the company isn’t giving up on Android entirely. Nokia is partnering with Samsung to bring its Here Maps app to Samsung Galaxy smartphones, the two companies announced in a blog post on Friday. See also: 25 Best Free Android Apps The free app includes maps
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Dropbox Pro Gives Subscribers 1TB of Storage as Cloud Wars Heat Up
The cloud wars just got even more serious. Dropbox on Wednesday announced big changes to its Dropbox Pro offering, including more storage space and better sharing options. The company’s new pricing matches similar moves by Google and Microsoft and makes Dropbox Pro one of the cheapest ways to get a terabyte of storage, though still
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How to Salvage a Job Interview That’s Going Downhill
No job seeker ever wants an interview to go badly. But even the most seasoned candidates can find themselves in a situation where they know the hiring manager isn’t impressed. Whether you start talking in circles, accidentally say the wrong thing or just get nervous and blank out on a question, sometimes your interview doesn’t
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10 Types of Bosses You Don’t Want to Work With
Everyone has a boss, in one way or another — even those of us who are bosses. (If you are a boss without a boss, please look away.) Like snowflakes, all bosses are different. Each has their own method of management, interaction and delegating tasks at work. Also like snowflakes, many of these differences are
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What Are the Qualities of an Excellent General Manager?
This question originally appeared on Quora. What does it take to be a great general manager for a web [or tech] company? Answer by Ian McAllister, general manager of Amazon. [Based on my experience], below are a few qualities that a great general manager should possess. An excellent manager: Sets the (right) vision: A strong manager thinks about business
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5 Tweaks to Your Website That Could Increase Sales 300%
This article is part of SWOT Team, a new series on Mashable that features insights from leaders in marketing, brand-building and public relations. A company website is a must-have in today’s Internet-driven economy. But while most companies have a website, few use them to their full potential to drive sales and revenue. That’s a shame,
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How to Know If You’ll Be Happy at Your New Job
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