Have you ever thought about breaking off on your own and starting something new? A business that’s truly yours, run exactly how you want and offering something great to your potential customers?  There’s no time like the present to get started. In the third quarter of 2016 alone, after all, 240,000 businesses opened their doors […]

Starting a business is exciting, exhausting, thrilling, stressful, and always, always an involved process. According to the Small Business Association, more than 627,000 new businesses open their doors (metaphorical or otherwise) every year. Unfortunately, the same report found that around 595,000 businesses close each year, too, meaning that getting off to the right start can […]

Are you an entrepreneur? Or do you see yourself striking out on your own with an adventurous start-up in the future? It’s a dream for a lot of people. But how do you do it successfully? This question keeps so many from choosing the entrepreneurial path. While there may not be one school of thought […]

From day one, our focus at Tresta has been to simplify business communication. Now, we have proudly unveiled a new website design that provides the best experience yet. The new site features a cleaner, more modern design that connects even better with small business owners and entrepreneurs. Displaying our growing feature set, enhancing the phone […]

Whether you’re an entrepreneur or someone working remotely, it’s possible you don’t have a traditional workspace or hold standard work hours. Maybe you don’t even have an actual desk and work from a new location every single day. No matter where you work, a cluttered workspace is distracting and can seriously inhibit your productivity. There […]

Small Business Saturday is just a few days away, and marks the beginning of the busy holiday season for most small businesses. It’s been ten years since American Express established the holiday to take place the Saturday after Thanksgiving with the focus to support small businesses and the communities they serve – and has grown […]

The holidays are such a stressful time – we’re all feeling the strain. Between the pull of work and obligations with friends and family, the last few months of the year get filled up fast. The to-do lists become a mile long and everyone starts mentioning how they could really use a clone. Businesses feel […]

Most business owners have high hopes when they file for their business licenses and set up shop, with ambitious aspirations to grow their seedling startup into something incredible.  Whether that “something incredible” is simply profitable enough to live on comfortably or the creation of a small (or not-so-small) business empire, most business owners are able […]

If you’re going to utilize voicemail for your small business, it’s important to create a greeting that is interesting and grabs your callers’ attention. It coaxes them into leaving a message. They feel compelled. A great voicemail greeting ensures your leads and other important contacts aren’t floating around in a spam email folder, wondering why […]

You’re considering trading your old phone system for a virtual phone system. But where do you start? There is a slough of virtual phone options available to businesses with a range of prices and features. It’s enough to make your head explode. I’m here to simplify it for you. Whether you have a certain provider […]

Managing a team and delegating work can be a huge undertaking, which most managers are able to shoulder well. Being the kind of leader that actually inspires their team while still commanding respect and getting things done, however, is something a little special. Most managers and leaders want to fit this description but aren’t always […]

Customer service is of increasing importance to all businesses, and there are more tools than ever before that reflect this. We’ve got advanced CRMs hitting the market, insanely capable chatbots, and intuitive help desk software that’s all designed to help businesses offer improved customer service to their clients and save some time and/or money along […]

Customers can be fickle. This is a hard truth that businesses have to face, especially with not-so-true cliches floating around like “the customer is always right.” While the cliche may not be right, there’s no denying that with so many choices available to customers today that it puts them firmly in the driver’s seat. As […]

International Podcast Day is September 30th – and it’s no wonder this new medium has its own day, with over 50% of the US population having partaken. Podcasts have a unique draw, providing listeners with insights and entertainment that are tailored to their interests. As of June 2019, there were 750,000 podcast shows and counting, […]

We’ve come a long way in phone technology in the past two decades – from the once-revolutionary Blackberry, which some people called Palm Pilots (even though that was a totally different thing altogether) and allowed you to answer emails, all the way to the smartphones of today – which can do practically anything. Want to […]

The modern business has a multitude of choices of tools to communicate with their customers, potential customers, and internally with…