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Insights for Restaurant Owners: Keeping Good Employees, Profits
Jan. 26, 2012 If you, as a restaurant owner, have trouble keeping talented employees, consider insights from a report on a Sacramento, California TV station. It will also help you stay in business. The headline, “Servers Say Groupon Leads to Smaller Tips,” on Jan. 25, 2012 is enlightening. The KXTL-TV report cites numerous comments on [...]
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Will State Lawmakers Heed New SBA Data, Small Business Concerns?
Jan. 26, 2012 There’s more evidence that small business plays a pivotal role in creating jobs in Washington and other states, according to the Office of Advocacy in the Small Business Administration (SBA). The Office of Advocacy released small business data for each... [Read more...]
Featured #3
CES: Best Business Strategies to Get Tech Funding
Jan. 24, 2012 If you have a tech startup looking for funds, you already know the competition is intense. But there are strategies that will help you to get funded. Investors revealed their preferences for funding technology firms at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES)... [Read more...]
Featured #4
RIM Provides 9 Lessons in Best Turnaround Strategies
Jan. 23, 2012 RIM, Research in Motion, needs more than just advertising and marketing strategies. Companies – from big to small – can learn business turnaround lessons from RIM’s predicament. RIM has failed to respond to marketplace changes. Despite installing a... [Read more...]
Featured #5
9 Dos and Don’ts for Best Decision-making
Here are nine tips – dos and don’ts for best decision-making. They’re applicable whether you have difficulty making the best decisions, engage in self doubt after making one, or are gun shy because some of your decisions have failed you. To err is human. Businesspeople... [Read more...]
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Nervous About Your New Boss? Here’s How to Deal with It
Whether you just got a new job or whether your company just assigned a new boss for you, it might seem hard to deal with it. But deal with it you must. Learn to develop poise and to manage your boss. First, recognize two things: 1. Fear is common. 2. Throughout your... [Read more...]
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RIM Provides 9 Lessons in Best Turnaround Strategies
Jan. 23, 2012 RIM, Research in Motion, needs more than just advertising and marketing strategies. Companies – from big to small – can learn business turnaround lessons from RIM’s predicament. RIM has failed to respond to marketplace changes. Despite installing a new CEO, Thorsten Heins, and hiring a vaunted crisis management firm, Sitrick and [...]
[Read more...]Marketing / Sales
Insights for Restaurant Owners: Keeping Good Employees, Profits
Jan. 26, 2012 If you, as a restaurant owner, have trouble keeping talented employees, consider insights from a report on a Sacramento, California TV station. It will also help you stay in business. The headline, “Servers Say Groupon Leads to Smaller Tips,” on Jan. 25, 2012 is enlightening. The KXTL-TV report cites numerous comments on [...]
[Read more...]Wall Street
IPO Guru: Why the Frantic IPO Pace Heading into the New Year
Dec. 14, 2011 Although 2011 has been a disappointing year for initial public offerings, several companies aim to go public this week making it the busiest IPO activity since 2007. So what’s going on? “There is a very large backlog of companies wanting to IPO and the November 4 Groupon IPO turned the light back on [...]
[Read more...]Operations
Overcoming Obstacles for Business Turnaround — 13 Steps
For a successful turnaround of financially troubled businesses, there are usually two obstacles to overcome. They include the ego of the business owner or CEO, and poor advice by the lawyers. It’s difficult for a business owner or CEO to accept the need for a turnaround specialist. Most often, they’re in denial about the [...]
[Read more...]Finance
CES: Best Business Strategies to Get Tech Funding
Jan. 24, 2012 If you have a tech startup looking for funds, you already know the competition is intense. But there are strategies that will help you to get funded. Investors revealed their preferences for funding technology firms at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. On her blog, the chair of [...]
[Read more...]Human Resources
Nervous About Your New Boss? Here’s How to Deal with It
Whether you just got a new job or whether your company just assigned a new boss for you, it might seem hard to deal with it. But deal with it you must. Learn to develop poise and to manage your boss. First, recognize two things: 1. Fear is common. 2. Throughout your career and personal life, [...]
[Read more...]Tech
CES: Best Business Strategies to Get Tech Funding
Jan. 24, 2012 If you have a tech startup looking for funds, you already know the competition is intense. But there are strategies that will help you to get funded. Investors revealed their preferences for funding technology firms at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. On her blog, the chair of [...]
[Read more...]Public Policy
Will State Lawmakers Heed New SBA Data, Small Business Concerns?
Jan. 26, 2012 There’s more evidence that small business plays a pivotal role in creating jobs in Washington and other states, according to the Office of Advocacy in the Small Business Administration (SBA). The Office of Advocacy released small business data for each of the 50 states. SBA believes the new data is “an [...]
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