Coddling Top Performers in Tough Times

On October 21, 2009

Coddling Top Performers in Tough Times

Why are high performers increasingly unhappy in today's workplace? They need great support in order for them to make it rain, an area where companies are cutting back. Here's what you can do to make your stars happy (and productive) again.
On October 21, 2009

#GrowSmartBiz Video Panel 2: Raising Capital w/ Effective Finance Strategies

This was originally posted on GrowSmartBusiness.com and is from the GrowSmartBiz Conference held September 29, 2009: – Shannon Nash, Nash Management Group Shannon King Nash is a CPA, attorney, author, and entrepreneur. She is the President of theNash Management Group, an entertainment and business management firm based in Los Angeles and Atlanta that represents venture funds, entertainers, producers, [...]
On October 21, 2009

Save a PDF Document as Plain Text

PDF documents are great for ensuring that recipients see a document formatted the way it was intended, and for making it relatively difficult - but by no means impossible - to muck around with the contents. But what if you want to take the information in a PDF and repurpose it in a new text document? Most of the time, you can copy and paste sections of text from a PDF, but what if you just want to save an entire PDF as a plain text document for easy cutting and pasting?  That's when you can turn to PDF Text Extractor, a utility that saves an entire PDF as plain text. This program does exactly what it claims, with little...
On October 21, 2009

6 ways to Humanize Your Online Store

Online retail is always searching for ways to close the gap between the offline and the online experience – and one way to do that is to put a more human face to your e-store. The following are 6 ways you can build trust and comfort with your site, wow your customers, differentiate yourself from [...]
On October 21, 2009

The Juggernaut’s New iMac

Apple launched three new products Tuesday just hours after disclosing details on the most successful non-holiday quarter in the company's history. The new hardware includes new iMac models, a new sub-$1,000 MacBook and a multitouch mouse that Apple has dubbed the "Magic Mouse." On Wall Street, the company's revelations sent its stock climbing.
On October 21, 2009

Sales Forecasting and Say’s Law

I have been studying sales forecasting and forecasting tools a lot recently, and I have come to the conclusion that we need better tools as well as better ways of using them. There is a lot that can be said about forecasting, its current state and how to improve it, and I don't want to leave anything out but I will try to be brief. First off, how we forecast says a lot about our views on economics.
On October 21, 2009

How Apple Came in from the Consumer Cold to Become Red Hot in the Enterprise

Almost overnight, it seems that Apple and its products, led by the iPhone, the iPod and the Mac, are everywhere -- including in the corporate enterprise. Apple's presence as a favorite staple in the consumer market segment is accepted, expected and taken for granted. The corporate enterprise is another matter.


On October 21, 2009

A Small Business Guide to Social Media

At the launch of Small Business Week 2009, BT presented the results of a massive survey of SMEs. A sample of over 7,000 business people revealed 20 per cent were using social media in some way to promote their businesses. I had some questions for Mick Hegarty, strategy director at BT Business, who heads up the telecoms behemoth's own social networking tool, Tradespace. BNET: One in five using social media is quite a surprisingly high number, considering the size of the sample. Why do you think so many have embraced the new technology? MH: For small businesses word of mouth is one of the most powerful ways of attracting and retaining customers, business social networking is now taking this online and enabling them...