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 […]
Closed Gone fishin’. Probably every small business owner would like to hang out a sign like this on his or her business at some point during the summer and get away somewhere to relax. I hope it’s on your schedule, but I also know that your employees will want to get away as well. What […]
“I left corporate America a few years ago. While I wouldn’t go back in a million years, I have to confess that I’m struggling right now. In addition to running my own Internet business out of the house, I’m on the boards of three local nonprofit organizations, and I’ve been teaching classes as an ‘adjunct […]
I’d be willing to bet that virtually everyone has said, “There just aren’t enough hours in the day!” It’s especially true for the small business owner. Pile family responsibilities on top of work duties and it makes for a seemingly impossible situation. However, if you start hacking away at this problem from two angles, you […]
Many software products are moving to a cloud based subscription model. In the past, users would purchase a license to use a product, and then install the product on their own hardware. This could represent a significant investment for a small business, depending on the software product. When the software developer released an updated version […]