You may think of business communication as emotionless. You’re just conveying facts, solving problems, and making good decisions, right?

On closer look, emotion doesn’t just help you communicate effectively -- conveying a little excitement, happiness, frustration, or doubt can make you a better businessperson.

You’ve heard it again and again: Millennials are the future of work.

The numbers back this up: this young generation has recently surpassed all others to become the largest generation in the U.S. workforce. They’re expected to make up a whopping 75% of the workforce by 2025.

You know it’s important to personalize emails -- the same goes for texting. You want to speak directly to your connections, while keeping it brief and on-point.

Here are some tips on personalizing business texts.

You may be thinking, “Business-class text messaging? It’s just texting from your cell phone, but you use it for your professional contacts, right?”

Not exactly.

Business-class text messaging is more than texting for business. It’s even more than using a professional text messaging platform (although that’s a big part of it).

Fastest-growing senior living CRM joins forces with leading two-way texting platform to power faster, more meaningful communication

DENVER, CO, MAY 9, 2016 -- The more responsive a senior living community is, the more successful it will be in securing qualified leads and making strong connections with future residents.

Future-proofing means pushing yourself beyond a bottom-line view of your firm. It requires big picture, longitudinal thinking.

What are your clients and candidates going to want in five years? In ten? Where is the workforce headed?

Here are some tips for staying ahead of the game.

New Auto-Reverse Number Lookup, Notifications and "STOP" to Opt-Out

We’ve collected all of your most commonly requested feature updates from our wonderful users and launched an update we hope you’ll be excited about! In this update, we’ve included new in-app notifications, improved the TextUs Chrome Extension phone number lookup, and enhanced a few key messaging features.

A recruiter’s job is about more than hitting quotas, building up the database, and beating out the competition. Increasingly, recruiting is about building relationships, nurturing stronger talent, and creating best-fit connections for candidates and clients.

To do that, you have to be at the top of your game. We talked to some top recruiters in the industry to find out the key to their success.

Technology is so fundamental to our daily workflow that we don’t often ask if it’s really making our lives easier. Not all staffing software is created equal. For example, a CRM that doesn’t talk to your website or to your text messaging system might be hindering your growth.

You know that staffing and recruiting effectively today means going mobile and going social. The common denominators in these recruiting trends are: speed, efficiency, convenience, and connection.

To reach the top candidates, texting is a simple communication powerhouse that increases your reach with a mobile workforce. Here’s why you should text your candidates more.

Clients looking for staffing and recruiting firms know they want the basics. They want strong candidates and a relief from the time-consuming hiring process. But, your firm is not basic. How do you go above and beyond to prove you’re a head above the rest?

You want to be the best of the best.

You want to draw in the most skilled talent, hook the hottest clients, and grow your firm. What do fast-growth firms do differently?

Though conventional wisdom tells you to hire slow and fire fast, the recruiting world doesn’t run on conventional wisdom anymore. Nearly half of companies hire recruiting firms because they need to fill positions quickly. Here are some tips for speeding up your recruiting process.

The top five qualities that make a successful recruiter are persistence, ability to listen, tenacity, ability to follow-up, and communication. All five are about communication (one even is communication!). They are about your ability to connect, respond, and engage.

To be a stellar recruiter, you have to be savvy about every aspect of communication, from choosing the right method of contact to choosing the right words. With that in mind, here’s a breakdown of what your candidates really want when it comes to communication.

In staffing and recruiting, you need to remain ahead of the curve. Here are some of today’s top trends.

We've been hard at work on new features that will help you get even more mileage out of your TextUs account. Read on for details about the new TextUs mobile apps and web extension.

TextUs Mobile Apps

You requested it, and now it's here! The TextUs iPhone App is now available for download in the iTunes App Store! Android users, don't worry -- the TextUs Android app is coming out in just a few weeks!

Mobile is the future when it comes to recruiting (and the future is now). Mobile devices have surpassed desktops as the primary way people access the internet. The talent you’re looking for may be searching for a job while on the elliptical at the gym or reading up on your clients during their morning commute. To keep your finger on the pulse, here’s what staffing firms and recruiters need to think about when going mobile.

Today, nearly everything we do -- from walking across the street with a cellphone in our pocket to researching a product online -- generates data. In many ways, we are as defined by our 1s and 0s as we are by our DNA. And, just like info about DNA can predict our eye color and blood type, businesses can glean surprising information about employees’ strengths and weaknesses from their data. How can big data boost your staffing game?