You don’t have to be an artist to make great digital art. May 1, 2020 2 min readDisclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. If only given 15 minutes to consume content online, 66 percent of people would prefer to see something beautifully designed as opposed to something simple. It’s a competitive world out there on the Internet and if your site has poor, unattractive design, you’re missing out…

How is everyone coping without sports in their lives? Once you’ve read about the cancellation of all major sports events due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, and seen the reactions from the managers, players, and sports organizations, what is left for the billions of fans across the globe? The world still turns, albeit with less drama, less diversion, and less color in it. For many, a world without sports is monochrome. Perhaps the more pertinent question is: If we only fully notice something like sports when they’re gone, what can this period without them tell us about ourselves and our…

As the nationwide lockdown enters its third month, farmers have been at the receiving end with frayed supply chains, problems in harvesting their rabi produce and a sharp drop in demand as people stay indoors. A disruption in supply chain means that the arrival of commodities across the nation’s main mandis remained a cause of concern. Data from agrmarket.gov.in shows that in April 2020, the all India average wholesale price of major commodities showed a mixed trend as compared to same month of 2019. While the average wholesale price…

Run more effective email marketing campaigns and hit more leads with a verified list. April 30, 2020 2 min readDisclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. An email subscriber list is an essential asset to any company that does business online. Whether you’ve built your email list through paid acquisition or list-building techniques on your site, that list is very likely a core element of your digital marketing strategy.…

The coronavirus (Covid-19) disruption and the subsequent lockdown imposed by the government had a significant impact on the non-life insurance industry’s premiums for the month of March. The motor and health segment led the decline in premiums for the industry as the month of March saw premium for the industry decline by as much as 9 per cent. Motor segment saw a 7 per cent decline in premiums, while health registered an 11 per cent decline in premiums. Credit insurance segment’s premiums declined 42 per cent, while premiums in the personal…

Thirteen shops have been shut and over 40 people put under quarantine in Azadpur mandi the past few days, as Covid-19 spread across one of India’s biggest wholesale markets. What is heartening though is that so far there hasn’t been any major impact on the supplies and sale of fruits and vegetables. On Thursday, some 6,000 tonnes of perishables arrived at the mandi, which is quite near the normal levels. On Wednesday, around 5,000 metric tonnes of fruits and vegetables arrived at the mandi. According to rough estimates there are over…

Make the information they’re looking for easy to find. April 29, 2020 4 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When a visitor lands on your website, not all of them will want to read an entire page. Most likely, they’re looking for just one or two paragraphs that speak directly to their need. We find that a lot of users scan a webpage to determine whether it’s worth reading, or simply to find the piece of information they’re looking for. Of course, I believe in creating carefully crafted content. But that’s not enough to optimize readibility. …

Senior executives, accustomed to annual performance reviews and 360-degree assessments, can be quick to acknowledge that certain aspects of their leadership style need more work. These might include having better time management skills, being more empathetic with coworkers, or focusing more on their team. The reviews represent an exercise in self-awareness that most leaders perform believing they can accurately figure out the areas in which they need to improve. But what happens when you ask the members of their team what they think the boss should work on to be a more effective leader? The results are both unexpected and…