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5 Mother-Earth-Friendly DIYs for Mother's Day
Mother’s Day is right around the corner! Are you ready? I recommend homemade gifts for your mother this year. They are always thoughtful and usually are budget friendly. These eco-friendly projects are perfect for the home crafter who needs some fresh ideas for Mother’s Day this year. Teacup Candles Plus Rose Vanilla Scented Soap These [...]
Workplace Predictions For This Year
Staples Advantage, the business to business division of Staples, just released its workplace predictions for 2016. The predictions are drawn from the company’s experience working with businesses of all sizes ranging from 10 employees and up all the way to the Fortune 100 as well as its proprietary Staples Advantage Workplace Index. [...]
Yahoo to Lay Off 15 Percent of Workforce, Consider Reverse Spinoff
Yahoo on Tuesday announced it would consider a reverse spinoff and cut about 15 percent of its workforce as part of a restructuring to boost a sluggish core business. The tech company also posted quarterly results broadly in line with analysts’ expectations. Yahoo reported adjusted fourth-quarter earnings of 13 cents per share on [...]
Cut Costs and Increase Revenue in Your Home Business in 2016
By a Panel of Sales and Marketing Experts The newest smartphone hit the racks at the local technology shop? Sidle on past. 2016 is the year for you to hit the big league with your business, and small sacrifices can lead to an even bigger reality than ever imagined. Beyond purchases for survival purposes, each swipe of your credit card [...]
Smart Card Alliance & ICMA EXPO
Smart Card Alliance Expands Payments Summit, Co-locates with ICMA EXPO to Meet the Needs of a Changing Payments Industry Topics range from EMV chip payments, mobile, NFC, transit, and FinTech, to card manufacturing and personalization technologies and more The newly co-located Smart Card Alliance Payments Summit and the ICMA Card [...]
Do What Uber Did. Empower Users and Other Stakeholders.
Join us in a city near you at Entrepreneur’s Accelerate Your Business event series kicking off Feb 23. View cities and dates » If we needed another example of how the old business paradigms are failing, Walmart delivered this month. They’ve announced the closing of hundreds of stores globally, leaving empty big-box buildings and broken [...]
10 Characteristics of Highly Successful and Profitable Mobile Games
Join us in a city near you at Entrepreneur’s Accelerate Your Business event series kicking off Feb 23. View cities and dates » Mobile games now rule at the Apple App store, claiming a 22.49 percent stake of all active apps as of December 2015. Last year, the Store offered 396,094 gaming apps, which was almost double the inventory [...]
Dealing With a Rogue Employee
What SMBs Need To Do When an Employee Goes Rogue By Eduard Goodman We’ve all seen or heard about it: the employee who insults the customer, tells off the boss, and quits their job in a memorable blaze of glory. It’s a spectacular display, but unhappy workers aren’t always so demonstrative. Some quietly seethe for weeks or months before [...]
This Startup That Fills Your Gas Tank on Demand Just Raised $9 Million
Join us in a city near you at Entrepreneur’s Accelerate Your Business event series kicking off Feb 23. View cities and dates » Ever feel like there is just more to be done in a day than you can ever possibly get done? It’s simple to start crossing off mundane things off your to-do list with some strategic outsourcing. That’s the [...]
Make Light Fixtures from Old Chicken Feeders
Even with minimal building capability, you can learn how to make light fixtures from old metal chicken feeders. The feeders may be hard to come by, but if you know someone that has been in the commercial chicken-raising business, then you can likely find some in their used feeder pile. That’s how I got some of mine. This project [...]