With Spring Break now behind us, summer vacation is the next big watershed event for students and many will be looking for summer jobs and internships. The long, slow recovery that has followed our last recession has not been much of a job creator, and it has been especially unkind to youth, ages 16-24. I […]
Let me toss an idea out to you: Business practices follow marketing practices. Illustrating this concept with an example will clarify what I mean: For some time now, marketing has been getting more and more targeted. “Hyper-local” marketing today is quite common, consequently hyper-local business practices need to follow suit. We are seeing this played […]
Fans of the CBS show, “The Good Wife” will remember the episode where the law firm’s computers were taken over and locked up by ransomware. Unless they agreed to make a payment to certain bank account, the firm’s computers would remain locked. Unfortunately this scenario is becoming far too common today. Mark Stefanick, who runs […]
More often than not, Economics and Politics are like conjoined twins who don’t get along very well. I can hear Economics shouting at Politics, “I always feel used by you!” However, occasionally the two come together and play nice-nice and that happens at least once a year during National Small Business Week. It’s a tradition […]
The Small Business Administration says that National Small Business Week – May 4-8 – is for “celebrating America’s entrepreneurs.” But can anyone afford the party favors this year? One of the uplifting facts of entrepreneurship, is that many successful founders start their businesses in slow economies. However, that hasn’t been the case in the past […]