Key Takeaways Freelancing hiring by businesses has seen a 260% increase in recent years, per Fiverr. The trend benefits both businesses and freelancers, who often use the platform to make money on the side. If you’re an entrepreneur who wishes you had more than 24 hours in a day, you’re not alone. Nearly half of small business owners (46.5%) say having more time is the single biggest improvement they need, according to recent data from Small Business Expo. That’s why many of them are investing in freelance talent to get the job done. Freelance hiring by businesses has seen a…
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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Senada Greca traded motivation for discipline, and discipline is what carried her from crisis to Kim Kardashian’s trainer. Greca turned the hardest chapter of her life — depression, an eating disorder, raising her family at 14 — into the exact expertise her business is built on. Many of the best entrepreneurs turn their biggest weaknesses into their greatest strengths. Celebrity trainer and wellness entrepreneur Senada Greca is a perfect example. After struggling with depression, anxiety and eating disorders early in life, Greca went on to become one of the world’s…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Revenue shows how much business a customer gives you but doesn’t equate directly to value. High-revenue customers may generate less value due to discounts, late payments, servicing demands and other costs. Businesses can better align customer value with pricing, payment terms, service levels and customization to ensure relationships remain profitable. Customer profitability should help shape sales priorities, pricing decisions, product design and the types of customers the company actively pursues. Revenue generation is a primary focus for many businesses because rising sales make companies look like they have momentum. For…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Reusable AI prompts capture your role, context and expectations to improve consistency and save time on recurring tasks. Start with one workflow, test and refine your prompts using real work and review AI outputs carefully before relying on them. My company teaches AI for business. At conferences, we show people how to save prompts they can reuse. Afterwards, someone almost always asks, why do we give these techniques away? Two reasons: First, these techniques can be game changers in how you work. Second, everyone should know how to use AI…
There’s a contradiction emerging in how publishers get paid when AI uses their content. The licensing deals that OpenAI, Meta, Amazon, and others have been signing these past few years appear to be slowing down, at least for the publishers still waiting on one. Publishers are speaking about this openly. Digiday hosted a London town hall recently, and one publishing executive said discussions with AI companies have slowed down. Also, Katya Gorchinskaya, a Ukrainian journalist and media consultant who built J·Index, a database of thousands of AI implementations in newsrooms, separately told the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism…
It hasn’t been a good week for workers in the banking and financial sector. Yesterday, UK banking giant Barclays announced it was laying off 5% of its workforce, or nearly 5,000 workers, as it transitions more of the bank’s operations to artificial intelligence systems. Across the Atlantic this morning, an American financial giant made a similar announcement. The American Express Company (NYSE: AXP), owner of the eponymous credit card and associated financial services, announced that it will slash 5% of its workforce due to AI. Here’s what you need to know. What’s happened? On Friday morning, American Express CEO Stephen…
On the eve of the World Series, there is a realization these may be Major League Baseball’s last games for a while.Owners are pushing for a salary cap, and that could prompt a lockout starting Dec. 2 and result in canceled games in 2027.“It would be a real bummer to lose a season, that’s for sure,” Tampa Bay ace Drew Rasmussen said Thursday ahead of the World Series opener against Milwaukee. “I think the industry as a whole is in way too good of a place.”This year’s World Series is the first since 1991 between teams both in the bottom…
Most Americans—more than 80%—don’t think that their elected officials care what they have to say. Change.org has been rebuilding its own platform to try to change that. The platform, founded in 2007, is best known for campaigns that have gone viral nationally, like a petition to get justice for George Floyd in 2020 that got nearly 20 million signatures. Of course, most petitions don’t have that kind of audience. But you don’t need millions of people to make change happen, and over the last two years, Change.org has rebuilt its tools to connect people with decision-makers in their own community.…
Most companies would never build a five-year financial plan using five-year-old market data. Yet when it comes to customers, organizations routinely make major decisions based on assumptions formed four marketing departments ago. From that older data, they know their audience. They know what customers value. They know why people buy. They know which segments matter most. Until they don’t. Customers rarely announce that they’ve changed. Their priorities shift gradually as new generations enter the category and media habits evolve. Expectations change and economic pressures alter purchasing decisions. New competitors reset what people consider valuable. Meanwhile, the organization keeps planning. Marketing…
This week, Inspired Capital is announcing Fund IV: $450 million in new capital to back early-stage founders. It’s a milestone I’m grateful for. Seven years into my own 25-year business plan, I have been reflecting on what carries a firm, or a company, that far. For me, the answer has always been a long-term mindset. From day one at Inspired, I have planned to be in it for the long haul. Knowing that what I want to accomplish can only happen in decades has shaped who we hire, who we partner with, and which problems we choose to spend our…