Energetek’s blog on business tips, becoming & staying a successful entrepreneur, and everything else to get you through your work week.
How to Boost Your Workplace Routine
Creating a work-life balance is key to a happy career, but what about improving your daily work routine? Even if you love your job (I hope you do) changing little things to your routine or environment can really improve your mood and energy. Here are 4 tips to boost [...]
Energy Market Update
March Natural Gas Rates Are Looking Better Than Ever Today March’s natural gas future prices were released bringing better news than last year. Natural gas futures dropped by about 5% bringing them to their lowest point in almost 4 years. The cause? Information released by the National Oceanic [...]
When Goals Become Habits (Part 2)
How Are You Doing With Time Management? Back in September I wrote a piece on my tips for better time management, focusing on curbing procrastination, planning ahead, the power of to-do lists, and utilizing apps like Google Calendar. Recently one of our readers sent us a great article [...]
Spice Up Your Work Week
All work and no play is the easiest way to burn yourself out. The average work week can seem daunting and mundane at times. Sometimes I feel like I slip into autopilot. When I feel like this is happening, I know it’s time for a change up. Here’s a [...]
How to Revamp Your Online & Social Media Presence
<h>No Coding Required</h> When you own a business you constantly are improving your strategy, right? Well your brand online and on social media needs the same attention. Whether you're doing a full company rebrand, testing out a new color scheme, or social media #hashtag, you want to often [...]
Telemarketing is Dead and We Need to Keep it That Way
I had a moment of reassurance today. You know those moments - though maybe few and far between, that validate everything that you are working towards is for the greater good and the universe supports your efforts? I had that today. Eva and I were doing our “touch-backs” in [...]
Sales Process: How to Improve Daily
Sell It, Close It. Sales Pitch I believe the most important part of your sales process is your pitch and you should always be improving it. Being out in the field talking to potential clients is a great place to practice and immediatley see what works and what [...]
Energy Market Update
The New Year is upon us and so are some significant energy market changes. As always, Energetek is here to break down the complicated market as well as some mandated changes for our clients in New Jersey. New Jersey Clients: The New Year is bringing an increase in NITS [...]
30 Easy Ways to Declutter & Organize Your Life
New Year, More Zen You The new year is almost upon us and I don't know about you, but I want to begin 2020 with a clear mind space. Sometimes you just need a full cleanse of "things" to relieve some anxiety and have a fresher start. Below [...]
What College Grads Actually Want out of a Workplace
Energetek asks a future graduate to shed light on what this upcoming graduating class is looking for in a workplace. As my graduation day is growing nearer, I can’t help but think of this upcoming chapter of my life as enchanting. There are many opportunities left to be sought [...]
4 Podcasts for a Smart Commute
If you're not learning, you're not growing, and that's where success stops. So when I'm not listening to murder podcasts (check out my blog post a few months back) during my frequent drives for work, I'm filling my brain with these 4 podcasts. Here are a mix of business, [...]
Bookworms Beware: Kristin’s Winter Reading List
It’s that time of the year where all you want to do is curl up with some hot chocolate and a good book. If you’re like me, you like to read a mix of different genres. I might choose a business strategy book, a fiction an autobiography. And sometimes [...]
Is Your Business Adding Good or Bad Competition?
The Two Sides of Every Industry Competition creates business and forces you to think outside the box, be on your toes, and offer (hopefully) a better product/service to the consumer. If you want to beat competition and grow your client base at the same time, there is a [...]
Long Term Relationships: Why Successful Sales Take Time
This is more of a vent session than an article but I digress. Recently I have run into some unsavory sales people in the field. Actually, I personally haven’t had interactions with these people, my clients have. Which is worse. As a person that works in sales, energy sales [...]
The Business Ideas You Can Ignore
I Passed on an Opportunity & Learned a Valuable Lesson How much opportunity is too much opportunity? Before you think I'm saying not to "go for it" and take a little risk to win a lot of gain, you have to separate real opportunity from distractions. In business [...]