#THRIVEable Friday: Expansion, Adaptation and AppLock

Welcome back, Friday! We missed you. How was your week? One thing we’ve noticed is the overabundance of holiday ads and campaigns. While some of them are cool and catchy, part of us is saying “Are you crazy? Halloween was just last weekend!” Where do you stand on starting holiday campaigns before Thanksgiving? Not in the mood to watch holiday commercials and eat leftover Halloween candy? Catch up on your reading with us – check out this week’s Thriveable Friday post, our roundup of news, apps and links to end the week right. Enjoy! Entrepreneurship…LIKE A BOSS. Adapting to New Growth.

#THRIVEable Friday- Expansion, Adaptation and AppLock

#THRIVEable Friday- Expansion, Adaptation and AppLock

Welcome back, Friday! We missed you.

How was your week? One thing we’ve noticed is the overabundance of holiday ads and campaigns. While some of them are cool and catchy, part of us is saying “Are you crazy? Halloween was just last weekend!” Where do you stand on starting holiday campaigns before Thanksgiving?

Not in the mood to watch holiday commercials and eat leftover Halloween candy? Catch up on your reading with us – check out this week’s Thriveable Friday post, our roundup of news, apps and links to end the week right. Enjoy!

Entrepreneurship…LIKE A BOSS.

Adapting to New Growth.

Is your business growing? Great! But have your management techniques and practices grown with it? What worked when your company was smaller might not have the same effect now that you’ve hired on employees, obtained investors or started a new partnership. This article from Inc. offers tips to tweak your approach to business in order to optimize your growth.

Expansion Financing.

Expanding your business requires strategy, patience and, you know, cash. If you’re not sure how to go about it, financing your expansion can be tricky and cause cash flow problems that can affect your business. In this video from Forbes, small biz expert and angel investor Barbara Corcoran offers best practices for financing your company’s expansion.

Keep Tabs on Employees’ Tabs.

Worried that your employees are SnapChatting or watching Netflix when they should be working? The Internet is a distracting place, and when it’s someone’s job to be online, it can be hard to stay on task. This post from Entrepreneur describes how an entrepreneur or manager can make sure their employees are productive on the web.

Tips and Tools to Empower Your Life

We’ve all been there: you hand your phone to a friend/coworker/family member to show them a picture and they decide to go through your entire text history. NOT COOL. Or you hand your phone to a child so they can play a game but they decide to somehow change your unlock password. Never again with AppLock. This free app can lock SMS, Contacts, Gmail, Facebook, Gallery, Market, Settings, Calls and basically any app you choose, safeguarding your data and your phone.

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Have a great weekend!

–Megan and Team Belle

Belle Communication

Belle Communication is a woman-owned and led, nationally awarded and top-ranked digital PR agency that helps brands think bigger for now + next. The firm serves the CPG, retail, restaurant, tourism and B2B industries, and has partnered with more than 100 brands including Dearfoams, Nestlé, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams and Nationwide Insurance.