Back in the day, big corporations used to be the only ones who were able to afford large, complex telephone systems and an army of operators to manage them.
Today, that’s luckily not the case. As the Internet has leveled the playing field, it’s also done away with ominous looking “business only” telephones with monitors the size of your desk.
Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at Grasshopper! We hope you all have a safe and happy holiday!
This guest post is written by Matt Winn. Matt is the Social Media Manager atVolusion, a Grasshopper partner .
Ah, the end of the holidays. It’s a time to wind down, take down the tree and remove the lights from the front yard. Relaxing activities, right? Wrong.
For online business owners, the ordering processing party doesn’t end with the holidays, especially when customers begin returning merchandise. While returns are inevitable, you can reduce the number of customer support questions, chargebacks and overall frustration by creating a foolproof return policy.
In honor of Global Entrepreneurship Week, this week’s content will be focused entirely on entrepreneurship. This post originally appeared on our blog last year. We love this post because it shows how great things can come from failure.
When we think about the true legends of the business world, it’s easy to put them on pedestals. Surely, we tell ourselves, the people who produce multi-billion dollar fortunes are a different breed than the rest of us. And seldom (if ever) do we picture them failing at anything. Yet when you look back on the real-life histories of iconic entrepreneurs, there is plenty of failure to go around. In fact, these early setbacks were often instrumental in shaping the careers of these storied figures.
In honor of Global Entrepreneurship Week, this week’s content will be focused entirely on entrepreneurship.
There’s something about people who make new things happen in business. That is, there are some things about the people who turn new business ideas into reality — particular personality traits and behaviors that successful entrepreneurs seem to share.
Wondering what those might be? Wonder no more.
