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Kizzy D. Blount
How to develop your accountancy practice’s competitive advantage
It used to be that you could win clients from the high street. Today, when people look for an accountant to serve their business needs, they’ll go further afield to find them. Competition is everywhere. Sage research says that 84% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) consider accountants critical, while […]
Our Favorite Social Media Platforms
Simon: Instagram Hardly surprising as a millennial, but Instagram is my favorite social media platform. I mean it, I have an account for just about every interest – a photo blog for my beer obsession and another for my hypebeast tendencies. I even have one for my cats. I do […]
B2B Content Promotion, Social Trends Report, LinkedIn’s New Guide, Gender Bias Study, & AI Changes Creative Work
One Way to Set B2B Content Apart from the Rest? Actively Promote ItCreating higher quality B2B content was seen as the top way to differentiate it, with coverage of unique topics that competitors aren’t covering coming in second, followed by conducting active promotion that extends beyond publishing and distribution — […]
Why Your FP&A Team Needs a Single Planning Platform
When the pandemic hit in March 2020, Chuy’s, a Texas-based chain that owns and operates more than 90 Tex-Mex restaurants in 17 states, found itself facing the same uncertainties as every other business in its sector. Off-premises sales surged. Dine-in sales plummeted. Long-range plans went out the window. Yet unlike […]
Multitasking Skills You Can Adopt In Your Small BusinessKuza Blog
Most of the time when one starts up a business, they find themselves running almost every activity as everything becomes rolled up as one because their business is a one-man or one-woman show. This can be quite challenging given on a daily basis, there is plenty of work to be […]
The Most Important Business KPIs. (Spoiler: Not Conversion Rate!)
I was reading a paper by a respected industry body that started by flagging head fake KPIs. I love that moniker, head fake. Likes. Sentiment/Comments. Shares. Yada, yada, yada. This is great. We can all use head fake metrics to calling out useless activity metrics. [I would add other head […]
Save on Fire Sticks, Microsoft Office Products, and more with Amazon’s Early Black Friday Deals
After you’re finished eating your Thanksgiving meal, check out Amazon’s great early Black Friday deals. You can save big on all kinds of items, from smart home devices to a Nintendo Switch bundle. Some of Amazon’s best-selling products are up to 50% off, and there are some special product bundles […]
Consolidated Pages vs. Multiple Pages: Which is Best For SEO?
Queries around SEO best practice rarely have a straightforward answer – it often depends on a variety of scenarios. That’s why it’s difficult to answer what seems like the simple question of whether consolidating pages or having multiple pages talking about a particular or similar is better for SEO? Although […]
Critical Mention Adds Instagram Tracking to Industry-Leading Earned Media Suite
NEW YORK — Critical Mention — the leading all-in-one earned media monitoring and intelligence platform — has released Instagram tracking as part of its Earned Media Suite. The new release adds to the platform’s already robust Social Media Monitoring offering, which also includes Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. In addition to […]