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How to Find Business Awards Using Featured

Finding the right business awards can take hours of searching across industry associations, publications, professional organizations, and individual award websites. Featured’s Find Awards capability makes the process faster by allowing businesses to search for awards and recognition opportunities using plain-language prompts. Featured is an AI copilot for PR and marketing. Find Awards is one capability…

Interview with Om Yadav, Co-Founder, Yavi Media

This interview is with Om Yadav, Co-Founder, Yavi Media. As Co-Founder of Yavi Media, an AI-driven marketing agency for painting and remodeling contractors, how would you describe the expertise you bring to helping home-service businesses grow through paid advertising? I co-founded Yavi Media to work exclusively with painting and remodeling contractors; we do not work…

7 Things I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Professional Photographer

Professional photography demands far more than technical skill with a camera. This article shares seven critical lessons that separate successful photographers from struggling ones, featuring insights from industry veterans who learned these truths through experience. Understanding these fundamentals before launching a photography career can…

Interview with Sharifah Hardie, Business Consultant, Ask Sharifah

This interview is with Sharifah Hardie, Business Consultant, Ask Sharifah. Sharifah, as a business consultant and founder of Ask Sharifah, Sharifah.AI, and The People’s Chamber of Commerce, what is the central problem you help entrepreneurs solve, and what experience has made you especially equipped to solve it? The central problem I help entrepreneurs solve is…

Interview with Seth Berge, Founder, CEO, Regenerative Revival

This interview is with Seth Berge, Founder, CEO, Regenerative Revival. As Founder and CEO of Regenerative Revival and Precision Biologics, how would you describe your work in bringing regenerative therapies, peptides, and hormone optimization to patients and clinics nationwide? Honestly, the simplest way I describe it is that we’re trying to give people back the…

25 Legal Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make and How to Avoid Them

Entrepreneurs face countless legal pitfalls that can derail even the most promising ventures, from intellectual property oversights to contract missteps that expose businesses to unnecessary risk. This guide presents 25 common legal mistakes and practical strategies to avoid them, drawing on insights from experienced attorneys…

Connectively Verification Signals: What They Are and How to Earn All Seven

What are Connectively Verification Signals? Connectively’s Verification Signals are seven automated checks shown on public expert profiles that confirm specific information journalists otherwise have to look up themselves. The signals cover your professional identity, company affiliation, LinkedIn profile, external professional references, headshot, company information, and profile visibility. Only the signals you’ve confirmed are shown to…

Interview with Tom Barber, Managing Director, Concept to Cloud

This interview is with Tom Barber, Managing Director, Concept to Cloud. Looking back, what path took you from NASA to leading cloud MVPs and modernization efforts in the private sector? A lot of the work carried out at NASA then trickled over into my private-sector work, serving as a natural continuation of platform design and…

Interview with Julian Frincu FIOEE • MCMI • MIC • MABM • MABP • MNCIP, Business consultant, Skills 2 Grow

This interview is with Julian Frincu FIOEE • MCMI • MIC • MABM • MABP • MNCIP, Business consultant, Skills 2 Grow. Julian, as a business consultant and founder of several service-led businesses, what experience do you draw on most when helping start-ups make practical growth decisions? The experience I draw on most is building…

Why Industry-Specific Credentials Matter: 25 Ways Recruiters Evaluate Qualifications

Recruiters know that generic qualifications rarely tell the full story when hiring for specialized roles. Drawing on insights from industry experts and hiring professionals, this article examines 25 specific ways that recruiters assess whether candidates possess the credentials, technical knowledge, and practical judgment their industries demand.…

Your Best Answer Has a Shelf Life

By James Nash

Every expert who uses a platform like this one eventually finds an answer that works. A story, a statistic, a before-and-after that reliably gets picked up. The temptation is obvious. Use it again. I did, and I have the numbers on what happened. Across…

Three Ways a Number Goes Wrong Before You Publish It

Authored by Andrew Maury On a single day in July, three numbers in my company’s outbound material turned out to be false. None was a typo. None had been caught by review. All three had been read, approved, and sent. I run a data studio…

From Pilot to Platform: Scaling Custom Software That Delivers

Written by Oleksandr (Sasha) Andrieiev There’s a specific moment I’ve learned to watch for. A client’s pilot has landed: the first few customers are happy, the board is pleased, someone says “let’s roll this out everywhere” in a meeting. And within a few weeks, the engineering…

What a 69x Price Spread Inside One Product Category Taught Me About Selling Premium Goods

By Hope Johnson I recently ran the numbers across our own catalogue and the result surprised me, even after fifteen years in the category. Looking at 209 single essential oils across 741 size variants, the price per millilitre ranges from…

Interview with Philip Van den Berge MSc, Founder & CEO, Intrinsiqq

This interview is with Philip Van den Berge MSc, Founder & CEO, Intrinsiqq. Philip, as Founder & CEO of Intrinsiqq, how does building a platform that derives investment fundamentals from primary company filings shape the expertise you bring to financial information and investor decision-making? I built Intrinsiqq because I wanted to see whether a company…

25 Valuable Lessons When Choosing Your Business Structure and How It Impacts Growth

Choosing the right business structure shapes every aspect of growth, from how quickly decisions get made to whether investors will take a second look. This guide brings together 25 hard-won lessons from founders and industry experts who have built companies across sectors…

Interview with Dr. Deepak Khanna DO, Family Medicine Physician and Founder, Montessori Bed Company

This interview is with Dr. Deepak Khanna DO, Family Medicine Physician and Founder, Montessori Bed Company. Dr. Deepak Khanna, as a family medicine physician and founder of Montessori Bed Company, what perspective do you bring to conversations about children’s sleep and bedroom design? I spend every week in a family medicine exam room, and parents’…

Featured vs. Connectively: What’s the Difference (and Why You Might Use Both)

If you’ve spent any time in the PR and media relations space lately, you’ve probably noticed we’re not just “Featured” anymore — there’s also Connectively. Two names, two distinct products, and a lot of understandable questions about how they fit together. Here’s the…

Interview with JM Agreda, Digital PR Consultant, VA Masters

This interview is with JM Agreda, Digital PR Consultant, VA Masters. As a Digital PR Consultant working at the intersection of PR and virtual talent, what expertise do you bring to helping organizations build visibility and make better hiring decisions? Before I became a Digital PR consultant, I worked as an online and television journalist…

Interview with Asim Ahmad, Founder and Editor, FinanceFirst

This interview is with Asim Ahmad, Founder and Editor, FinanceFirst. Asim, as the Founder and Editor of FinanceFirst, how do your experience in software, data management, and consumer-finance publishing shape the way you help readers make better money decisions? My background in software and data management taught me not to trust a result unless the…

Interview with Daniel Battaglia, Founder & CEO, Parksy.com

This interview is with Daniel Battaglia, Founder & CEO, Parksy.com. As Founder and CEO in the internet industry, how would you describe the work you do today and the expertise you bring to building and growing online businesses? As Founder and CEO of Parksy, a parking marketplace operating across 57 countries, my day-to-day work spans…

Starting a Nonprofit Doesn’t Automatically Give You a 501(c)(3)

Authored by Ginger Petrus One of the things I’ve learned from working at Beacon Nonprofit and serving on a nonprofit board is how often the terms “nonprofit” and “501(c)(3)” are used interchangeably. I understand the confusion firsthand because I thought they meant the same thing, too.…

Why MDM-Ready Devices Are Essential for Scalable IT Operations

Authored by Daniel Ehrlich What does your supplier actually inspect before those devices ship? It sounds like a basic question. But after two decades in this industry — I started as a wireless technician in 2005 — I can tell you it’s the one most procurement…

The Three Surfaces That Decide Your Airbnb Review Score

Authored by Carolyn Vasquez A five-star cleanliness rating almost never comes from the whole unit being spotless. It comes from the guest not finding anything wrong in the first two minutes. Running cleaning teams inside hundreds of Los Angeles vacation rentals has shown me that hosts…