Retail strategies to snare the impulse buyer have been a major part of the shopping experience since forever and a recent pact between Twitter and Amazon is pushing impulse buys deeply into the virtual world of social media. Imagine this scenario: You’re perusing your Twitter feed and you come across a sponsored tweet featuring a […]
You know the saying that “nothing’s certain but death and taxes.” I think one more thing can be added to that short list: delays in rolling out Affordable Care Act small business health insurance exchanges. States were supposed to have these exchanges up by November 2014, but when that seemed impossible, the administration granted a […]
As we’ve noted before, the lending world is changing. A topic that gets considerable attention in the media is the reluctance of traditional lenders to make small business loans, so it really caught my attention when I heard about a new program from Square. Square makes the über-cool Square Reader that lets you use your […]
Back in the 1950s, an urban legend circulated in the United States that Japan renamed one of its cities Usa, so they could stamp items “Made in USA.” At that time, Japan’s manufacturing was in trouble and the whole world looked to the United States for top quality products. Of course, since then Japan has […]
It’s rare when a new word is interjected into the conversation. Today I’m talking about the conversation that is constantly revolving around the topic of “sales” and the new word that has entered the conversation—thanks to Jill Konrath—is “agile.” In Jill’s new book, “Agile Selling,” she makes the case that keeping up with our crazy-fast […]