The Starbucks mobile app is one of the biggest success stories in the app world. It has been a huge hit with the Frappuccino® crowd because it improves the customer experience two ways: It simplifies payment, and It rewards loyal customers. Enhancing customer service is the primary reason small businesses are planning to launch their […]
Uber is celebrating its fifth anniversary and it certainly has accomplished a lot in five years. It’s hard to imagine another company that has so quickly established a global presence. The last figures I saw said that Uber operates in 300 cities strewn across 58 countries. Let’s compare it to Starbucks, which certainly has an […]
I should really stop reading newspapers. All they do is get you depressed. And angry. When you write a column like this, you read a lot. An awful lot. You have to stay on top of just about every development having anything to do with the world of entrepreneurship and small business. And when you […]
Predicting trends is always risky business. However, I’m confident the five I’m enumerating here will definitely command their share of headlines over the next 12 months and beyond. But frankly, whether I – or anyone else – publish an “X Number of 2015 Trends” article is not important by itself. Any value lies in determining […]
Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com Oct. 29, 2014 – 3:11 – FBN’s Charles Payne, Tea Party News Network News Director Scottie Nell Hughes, A&G Capital CIO Hilary Kramer, small business expert Susan Solovic, retail analyst Hitha Prabhakar and Penn Financial Group founder Matt McCall on Whirlpool’s ‘smart’ washing machine.