Prioritizing Balcony Time In my free time I like to dance. You can pretty much find me wiggling on most floors, and more often than not, my kitchen floor. Believe it or not, some of the rules for being a…
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5 Ways to Improve Your Website
5 Ways to Improve Your Website In this video, “5 Ways to Improve Your Website,” QIP videographer Matthew Frazier discusses key ways to help a website reflect your brand’s authenticity, professionalism, and trustworthiness, as well as how to make your…
Lasso and Brown on Leadership
Lasso and Brown on Leadership Ted Lasso, the Apple TV+ series that won a 2021 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, touched people’s hearts from its first episode. Were you part of that audience? What moves us about Ted…
Aspiring to Say that Business is “Good”
Aspiring to Say that Business is “Good” It’s common to hear executive-level leaders talk about whether business is “good.” In most instances, the discussion refers to the financial status of the organization—is it making enough money? Although QIP is not…
Finding Inspiration on Twitter
Women Who Inspire Me on Twitter In honor of American Business Women’s Day, QIP co-founder and President Beth Young, PhD, shares some Twitter feeds by women, organizations, and periodicals that inspire her as an American business woman. Click on the…
Managing a Creative Team
Managing a Creative Team QIP CREATIVE DIRECTOR LEIGH HUSTER “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein I just got a new bike for the summer — a three-speed, upright frame…
Lessons from Running a Virtual Company for 16 Years
Lessons from Running a Virtual Company Before the pandemic shutdown in March 2020, when I told anyone I ran a virtual company, they almost always declared how their office could never operate virtually, implying that our remote status made us…
Free Icons to Celebrate Women’s History Month
Free Icons to Celebrate Women’s History Month QIP Graphic Designer Min Yang designed this series of icons celebrating women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for Women’s History Month. These are free for educators and education stakeholders to use…
Implementing Successful Project Management for Small Business
Implementing Successful Project Management for Small Business For the increasingly busy video and graphic design team, using project management software was a game changer. Having all project information in one place saved them from hunting through emails for relevant information,…
How to Raise a Teenage Business
How to Raise a Teenage Business I remember when QIP was a newborn. I wanted to introduce it to the world much like I had my real children, as though “Quality,” “Information,” and “Partners” were first, middle, and last names…