You are looking for a pet care service for your dog for your upcoming business travel. A flyer shows up in your mailbox announcing that “the best pet sitting service in town” is just three and a half miles away. As the adorable puppy photo and promising headline catches your eye, you stand at the end of your driveway scanning the price lists and amenities. Then your neighbor passes by and can’t help but notice the bright flyer you are holding and say, “Do not go to that place. I brought our Prima there last year and it was filthy, and they gave her the wrong food the whole time.” You would probably put that flyer into your trashcan.

“Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.” – Tom Landry

Many of today’s successful businesses choose to house their employees in executive suites, because they have seen how the right space can unlock their company’s potential. Likewise, keeping your employees engaged in their work is the key to retaining them for the long term.

It is not coincidental that stock prices tend to rise more rapidly in “Fortune’s 100 best companies to work for” compared to other companies on average. Happy, engaged, balanced employees bring more energy, effort, and creativity to work and benefit your bottom line. There are endless articles and strategies about work-life balance but employers need to also remember that work and life can overlap and happiness in one effects happiness (and performance) in the other.

Verizon analyzed data on over 300 small cities in the U.S., and Alpharetta came in at 15, the only city in Georgia to make the list. Measures included income per capita, percentage of college-educated population over age 25, average total time driving to work, broadband access of at least 10 Mbps download time and 1 Mbps upload time, loans per capita, and tax scores. All these factors help set the stage to build a startup and draw in customers and partners.

How do you make the initial reach out to a potential partner? There is a lot of pressure on making a good first impression: you want to stand out and be noticed, but you also don’t want to look desperate or uninformed.

It can be difficult to fill a job, particularly in a low-unemployment environment. Certain factors can aid or hold you back your hiring efforts.

A lot of time, resources, and strategic thinking goes into a successful offsite. Even a meeting with a well-thought agenda, and a strong leader and teammates can spiral downward if logistics are not right. NorthPoint Executive Suites lets you do what you do best — lead and strengthen your team– by taking care of the logistics and providing a productive environment for you.

Referred to as the “capital of the South” and now a finalist for Amazon’s second headquarters, Atlanta is an industrial behemoth and is home to several Fortune 500 companies.

It’s the time of year for annual reviews and planning what we want to accomplish in 2018. Goals are the foundation of our reviews and small business plans.