How to Handle Difficult People (and Still Achieve Your Business Goals)

A founder’s guide to effectively utilizing feedback — even from impossible-to-please, difficult people. On a recent Thursday evening, I tried out a new San Francisco restaurant serving California cuisine. A diner at a nearby table was not happy. I overheard him complaining all night — the lights were too dim, the room too warm, the music too […]

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101 Easy (& Cheap) ways to drive traffic to your website

In the modern-day landscape of saturated online content, it’s no longer enough to just build your site and wait for people to visit it. You must be proactive at promoting your site and your brand online. Admittedly, this is much easier said than done, especially because not everyone has the financial capability to throw into […]

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Why 2019 and 2020 will be great vintage years for investing in the UAE and KSA

Why 2019 and 2020 will be great vintage years for investing in the UAE and KSA. To survive and thrive, consumer-facing businesses in the UAE and KSA will need to be managed much more professionally and tightly than they were in the past. Four years ago, I wrote an article calling the peak in the investment […]

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3 Online-Payment processing tips to sell more Big-Ticket items

If you run an e-commerce shop of any kind, simplification can lead to more sales. If you want to further optimize your company’s web sales, as well as reduce the risk of fraud in valuable transactions, it’s crucial to have a trusted solution when it comes to moving big-ticket items. With that in mind, here are three tips […]

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