Month: October 2014
Links Collection of Today in Small Business: ‘We’re the Uber of Whatever!’
What’s affecting me, my clients and other small business owners today. The Economy Crude oil prices are at their lowest since June 2012. Important measures indicate low inflation for September. Economists are not enthusiastic about the Republican economic agenda. Start-Up A start-up aims to solve a financial problem most people don’t realize they have. Ahead of winter, a new coat company tries to disrupt the market. An “on demand” beauty service raises $7 million. HereRead More
Halloween & Small Business: More Treats than Tricks
As Halloween approaches, many of us think about fun involving candy, costumes and scary decorations. It’s also a fun time for many small businesses. According to the Halloween Consumer SpendingSurvey from the National Retail Federation: “More than two-thirds (67.4%) of celebrants will buy Halloween costumes for the holiday, the most in the survey’s 11-year history. The average person will spend $77.52 this Halloween, compared to $75.03 last year. Total spending on Halloween this year willRead More
10 Free Twitter Plugins for WordPress Could Integrate to Your Small Business Website
Whether you’re a Twitter superstar or just want to be one, Twitter plugins for WordPress can take your results to a higher level. From Plugins that add “Tweet This” functionality to widgets that display your Twitter timeline, you’ll find oodles of social boosting features in the list below. Best of all, they’re free! About the only type of plugin you won’t find in this list are simple social sharing buttons. If you’re interested in thoseRead More
Your Web Life Style with WordPress is Your Celebrity Life
Facebook, Twitter, Google plus, and LinkedIn are social network platforms in different level. It is one the most popular Craze for the young generation in the world that every young in school, college and university student should have a Facebook identity. Many a people also use twitter and Google plus, and LinkedIn is more popular among the professionals. But those platforms are not perfect at all to present yourself, your inner being and your creativity. IfRead More
Small Business Owners and the Economists
Hugging a small business owner, like kissing a baby, is a time-honored way for politicians to broadcast their populist spirit. Supporting programs for Main Street has been a favorite salve for Wall Street bankers seeking to repair reputations wrecked during the financial crisis. Everyone, including 95 percent of the U.S. population, likes small business. Except, perhaps, economists. In recent years, a growing chorus has argued that small business owners are not the job creators they’reRead More
Guideline: Hiring Your First Employee for Your Small Business
Whether you’re the founder of a new startup or a small business owner that simply has to grow to keep up with demand, hiring your first employee is a big step. Ideally, you don’t want to let excitement and a sense of urgency cause you to rush ahead without planning, because a wrong step can lead to a terribly expensive mistake. Of course, we live in the real world, and sometimes life and circumstances simplyRead More
Citrix Acquires and bought E-Signature Company RightSignature
Citrix has acquired RightSignature, an e-signature company. RightSignature is an online software platform for getting digital signatures on electronic documents such as contracts. The move makes sense for Citrix, because its ShareFile application consists of cloud file sharing and document storage. RightSignature integrates with Citrix ShareFile. By adding an electronic signature capability, it means that those using file sharing and storage in the cloud can go paperless even for the types of documents that need signatures. A company statement explains:Read More
Things Entrepreneurial People Do Differently
Entrepreneurship goes beyond Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Garrett Camp, and it embodies something bigger than Twitter and WhatsApp. Entrepreneurship is a mindset, an attitude, and a lifestyle adopted by people who aren’t satisfied with the status quo. It’s an approach to life that favors creativity over conformity and action over inaction. Bestselling author, investor, and entrepreneur James Altucher says that for him, “Being an ‘entrepreneur’ doesn’t mean starting the next Facebook. Or even startingRead More
Helping Small Business: Three Tips for Becoming a Female CEO
I’m heartened to see female CEOs in all sorts of organizations — political, business and not-for-profit — but women still represent a tiny minority of CEOs worldwide. Just 5 percent of Fortune 500 CEO positions and 5.3 percent of Fortune 1000 positions are held by women. Those numbers have to change. I say that not simply because women deserve more representation in business, but because companies need to reflect the make-up of their consumer base,Read More
Infographic of the Week: Which Social Network is Best for Your Small Business?
Infographics have become quite hot items. And it’s little wonder why – packed with lots of info and eye-catching visuals, they’re a super shareable piece of content. We’re constantly coming across great infographics that condense so much useful information into a digestable visual, and we thought it’s high-time we shared. This week, the infographic that caught (and kept) our attention was found on Visual.ly (the visual content gurus). It centers around social media for small businessRead More