It was January 1957, when an accidental entrepreneur, Walter Fredrick Morrison (“Fred”), sold the rights for the Pluto Platter (later known as the Frisbee) to the Wham-O toy company. (The name may have come from the Frisbie Baking Company.) As legend has it, Fred and his girlfriend were tossing a popcorn lid back and forth […]
Sometimes young, innovative companies start an initiative and it gets a lot of publicity at the beginning then sort of fades away. The idea – however clever and forward-thinking it is – just doesn’t pan out. For example, Amazon shuttered its Amazon Webstore program in 2015. However, occasionally the ideas work and Facebook’s Hackamonth program […]
A colleague of mine was browsing through her Facebook news feed the other day when she saw a picture a FB friend (who lives across the country) had posted. The picture was of a colorful Mexican restaurant front with a sign in the window that said, “Soup of the day: Tequila.” She recognized it immediately […]
Grow your small business sales or die a slow death is probably the ultimate challenge and if it looks like your current sales team is maxed out, it’s very tempting to hire more sales professionals. How to grow small business sales is always top of mind for owners, but merely tossing more bodies at the […]
Articles over the last month or so have been looking back to 2015. This week many writers are making their predictions for 2016. Would someone please keep score and report back? Leadership, management and productivity Small business owners have been having trouble finding good employees for quite some time. Learn how to use employer brand […]