by Arthur | May 7, 2012
Everybody loves a winner. Perhaps more importantly, everybody wants to be one. Conventional wisdom dictates that if you want to succeed, it helps to learn how successful people did things. Stories about the disgustingly successful make you think anything’s possible. And it’s true… up to a point. Source: Nintendo Pro Wrestling (NES) Recent estimates of small business failure [...]
by Arthur | March 8, 2012
Small businesses are still responsible for generating most new jobs in the US. However, the smaller the enterprise, the more difficult it normally is to recover from a bad hiring decision. The burden of finding the best possible employee to do a specific job can weigh heavily on new entrepreneurs- After all, one employee in [...]
by Arthur | February 24, 2012
Cash mobs are perhaps one of the more interesting things to happen to small businesses in the United States in the past year. The idea is so new that as of writing, no one has made a Wikipedia page on it. Urbandictionary.com on the other hand, is more up-to-date. For who didn’t bother to click [...]
by Arthur | February 15, 2012
You will not find a social media site that has generated the kind buzz as Pinterest has in 2012. With Pinterest generating more referral traffic than LinkedIn, Google+ and Youtube combined, it’s easy to see why small businesses are interested with what Pinterest has to offer in terms of generating more sales. In the [...]
by Arthur | February 10, 2012
To better serve small businesses everywhere, we’ve just merged our Featured Business Reviews site with our Small Business Blog! All past and future Featured Business Reviews will now be seen on this blog and there’ll be a few changes.There might be some minor issues while we finish sorting everything out. Tell us what you [...]
by Arthur | February 8, 2012
How does your company deal with its creatives? Chances are, most American firms are going about it the wrong way. On his biography “iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon” Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak had this to say: “Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me- they’re shy and they live in their heads. [...]
by Arthur | February 2, 2012
Creating your own business, building it from the ground up, and having it succeed are likely some of the most exhilarating things you will ever do in your life. But once your business starts to transform from a gutsy start-up to an honest-to-gosh corporation, you might find that you need to reassess your priorities. [...]
by Arthur | February 1, 2012
Addressing Facebook employees last April, Obama said “We want more Andy Groves here in the United States…we don’t want them starting Intel in China or starting it in France.” When discussing the state of American technological progress and small business, it’s impossible to separate it from the ongoing debate on immigration. According to the Bureau of [...]
by Arthur | January 18, 2012
The recent shelving of HR. 3261, better known as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is undoubtedly the best news for US-based small businesses since the beginning of 2012. It would be hard to exaggerate the magnitude of the effect SOPA’s implementation would have been on not just on online commerce, but on all the [...]
by Arthur | January 13, 2012
In the first part of this series, we discussed how distractions at work are costing businesses, as well as why you should take account of it. You don’t need to have Michael Scott for a boss to know just how bad it can get: You can’t have a discussion about office distractions without bringing up [...]
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