Today is Cyber Monday and you know what that means.  It’s officially time to stop procrastinating and start deciding how you will approach gift giving for your business this holiday season. Gift giving can present quite a dilemma. You’d like to show your appreciation for your clients and employees but to what extent?  What should [...]

With 2012 right around the corner, your small business is likely hoping the New Year allows you and your employees a fresh start, especially if the return on investment (ROI) for 2011 has been less than stellar. For those small businesses that struggled this year, there are creative ways to move forward in 2012 and [...]

To those of you who celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, we’d like to wish you and your families a very safe and happy holiday weekend.  Happy Thanksgiving! Image from marekuliasz / Shutterstock

3 days from now Black Friday marks the official start of the holiday shopping season.  If you enjoy reading a good business book, Small Business Trends has got your hookup. Recently they compiled 4 separate top 10 lists of the best books centered around small business topics. Top 10 Books About Sales 10 Best Management [...]

Next week at this time those of us who celebrate Thanksgiving will be knee deep in turkey and all the fixins.  And the extra brave souls will be prepping their shopping lists for the madness that is Black Friday. Less brazen people like myself will refrain from going shopping anywhere next weekend.  Instead, I’ll stick [...]

Running a business seems glamorous and exciting – you are not told what to do; you get to pick who you work with; you get to pick out the look of the office; you get paid the most money; get the best office; get to connect with powerful people. The list of exciting decisions truly [...]

We’re only a little over a month away from this year’s Free Shipping Day.  If you don’t know what that is, let me tell you.  Originating back in 2008, various online merchants participate by offering holiday shoppers one day of free shipping with guaranteed delivery by Christmas Eve.  This year’s Free Shipping Day will take [...]

With open enrollment season officially underway, many small businesses, as well as their employees, are wrestling with the rising cost of health insurance. According to a recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, there was a spike in health insurance premiums this year, with the cost of employer-sponsored health insurance increasing 9 percent for family [...]

In today’s information age, too many small businesses are missing out on a golden opportunity to reach out to both present and potential customers. Simply put, they’re avoiding using social media to attract and engage consumers, therefore dropping the ball when they could be scoring a touchdown. For those small businesses not exercising their possibilities [...]