Of course, I don’t want you to encourage your small business employees to drink alcoholic beverages on the job, but I do want you to encourage them to stay hydrated while they’re at work…and hopefully, this habit will carry over to when they’re away from their jobs as well. For the sake of your small […]
Editor’s Note: This post is sponsored by Staples. All the comments and opinions are my own. Let me give you some bedrock business principles and share a couple of corollaries: * If you can’t measure it you can’t control it, and * If you can’t control it, you can’t grow it. Those are simple enough […]
I’ve seen bumper stickers urging people to “buy local” for almost as long as I’ve been driving the Interstates. However, this sentiment seems to be getting much renewed interest. Along with the large national and international chains, one of the biggest disruptions in local shopping is the Internet, and now—somewhat ironically—the Internet is enabling local […]
Remember when everyone was saying, “There’s an app for that”? That phrase probably peaked in popularity about two years ago—which is about five decades in online time. I bring it up because if there were apps for everything a couple of years ago, imagine the number of apps available today. Therefore, the question is: Do […]
Talk to people who run political campaigns and they’ll say, “All politics are local.” That’s becoming increasingly true on the Internet as well: “All browsing is local.” Well, almost. The desktop computer is being left behind and in its place is a phalanx of mobile devices: laptops, smart phones and tablets. Further, by the end […]